Connections and Conversation: Ferenczi on Gender and Sexuality: Prelude to Laplanche – Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.
August 24, 2024 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PDT
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Ferenczi on Gender and Sexuality: Prelude to Laplanche
Saturday, August 24th from 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PST
In this talk, I consider Ferenczi’s groundbreaking work on sexual abuse in conjunction with other projects he undertook, in which trauma, regression, and destructiveness clearly preoccupied him. In addition to attention to the landmark paper on sexual abuse, “The Confusion of Tongues” (1929/32), I will draw on his work on sexuality, his book Thalassa (2018) and on a later paper on the devastation of early neglect and trauma, “The Unwelcome Child and his Death Instinct” (1929). In addition to these papers, I link Ferenczi’s work on trauma to his paper on war neuroses (Ferenczi 1928; Harris, 2018). In this presentation, I hope to illuminate the originality and modernity of Ferenczi’s views on sexuality and the great difficulty they caused Freud.
Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.
Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. is Faculty and Supervisor at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is on the faculty and is a supervisor at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is an Editor at Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Studies In Gender and Sexuality. In 2009, She, Lewis Aron, and Jeremy Safron established the Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School University where she is also an Adjunct Professor of Psychology. She, Eyal Rozmarin and Steven Kuchuck, co-edit the Book Series Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis, her book Gender as Soft Assembly was published in 2005, She is publishing an edited book, Émigré Analysts, in 2023 in the Relational Book Series,
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