A panel discussion on The Uncanny at NPAP

The Program Committee of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis
Invites you to a panel discussion on The Uncanny
Saturday, May 3, 2014 * 10:30 am – 1:00 pm
NPAP Meeting Room
40 W 13 Street, New York City * Buzzer 216

“The uncanny is that class of the frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar” (Sigmund Freud, 1919).

How is it possible, and under what circumstances, for something that was once familiar to become uncanny? What are the literary sources that made S. Freud’s uncanny possible? What is the link between the uncanny and other concepts of his metapsychology? How do different schools of psychoanalytic thought view “The Uncanny” today, inside and outside of the consulting room?

Panelists, NPAP faculty and supervising psychoanalysts:
Carl Jacobs, D. Sc., L.P. * Jane Kupersmidt, Ph.D., LCSW, FIPA *
Arthur Pomponio, Ph.D., L.P.

Special guest:
Alain Vanier, M.D., Ph.D., former President of Espace-Analytique and a Supervisor at Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, is a Distinguished Professor of psychopathology and psychoanalysis, Director of Graduate studies at the University of Paris Diderot, Paris 7, where he also heads Centre de Recherches Psychanalyse, Médecine et Société (CRPMS).

Curated and moderated by Richard J. Karpe, LCSW, BCD-P.

A festive breakfast will be served, honoring Sigmund Freud’s (b. May 6, 1856) birthday.
The event is free and open to the NPAP community and to the general public.

NPAP Program Committee:
Jean Golden, Richard J. Karpe, S. Montana Katz, Jane Kupersmidt, Evan Malater, Gavriel Reisner (Members in Training Organization), Alan Roland, Catherine B. Silver, E. Hanna Turken, Aleksandra Wagner (Chair), and Margaret Zellner.