Après-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
Saturday, June 28, 2014
10:30 am – 2:00 pm
DISAVOWAL AND CONSTRUCTIONS IN ANALYSIS, Workshop
BETTY FUKS

Freud used the term Verleugnung, disavowal, in various texts, but defined it in the 1920s as a concept representing a specific psychic mechanism. This workshop will examine the way Freud develops this concept in his papers on “Fetishism” and “Constructions in Analysis” and in Moses and Monotheism, focusing on its clinical and cultural implications.

SUGGESTED READINGS: Freud, “Fetishism” (1927), “Constructions in Analysis”(1937), Moses and Monotheism (1939).

Betty Fuks is a psychoanalyst practicing in Rio de Janeiro. She teaches in the School of Communications at the Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro (ED/UFRJ). The author of numerous articles on psychoanalysis, her books include Freud e a cultura and Freud e a judeidade, published in English as Freud and the Invention of Jewishness.

MEETING PLACE: The School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues), New York City. Please ask at the front desk for the room number.

Dear Colleagues,

As we busy ourselves getting ready for the spring, finally spending time outdoors as well as preparing for the June meetings in Chicago, it may take effort to browse the international website this week. However, it will be well worth your while as the posts are varied, interesting and timely and will surely add to your tapestry of knowledge and expertise.

My choices this week ( and please do not limit yourselves to only these):

Mother’s Day

Who would have thought
we’d see a tail?

But there it was, this morning,
sticking out of the Home Defense

trap under the television –
the one that promised

we’d never have to see or touch
the first thing I’d killed