Connections and Conversation: Cupid’s Hour: The Transformative Potential of Female Erotic Countertransference – Janine de Peyer, LCSW-R
May 19, 2024 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PDT
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Cupid’s Hour: The Transformative Potential of Female Erotic Countertransference
Sunday, May 19th from 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PST
Why has so little been written about the female analyst’s sexual desire? Is sexual arousal during clinical work such a rarity, or is it a natural response that has simply been relegated to the unmentionable? This workshop will explore cultural and gender prohibitions against the acknowledgement of the female analyst’s erotic arousal within the therapeutic dyad, whether heterosexual, same-sex or gender variant. Anchored by a particular case presentation in which an older, cisgendered, heterosexual female analyst finds herself unmoored by erotic stirrings toward her younger, cisgendered, heterosexual male patient, de Peyer will explore the emergence of unsettling erotic countertransference, her attempts to manage this arousal, and the inherent potential for healing that resides within an intersubjective dynamic of eroticism. By examining the intersubjective collision between her own desire and her patient’s apparent absence of desire, de Peyer will explore the emergence of dissociative transference-countertransference dynamics, along with culturally embedded associations to gender, power, ageism, the incest taboo, and the potential for ethical boundary violation. This workshop will primarily draw on works by Atlas, Celenza, Davies, and Elise.
Janine de Peyer, LCSW-R
Janine de Peyer, LCSW-R is Faculty, Supervisor, and Training Analyst at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York (N.I.P.), the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center, and the Florida Psychoanalytic Center. She is Associate Editor with Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives, and has published on transference-countertransference, eroticism, dissociation, and uncanny communication within the analytic dyad. Publications include, Unspoken Rhapsody: Female Erotic Countertransference and the Dissociation of Desire, (2022); Uncanny Communication and the Porous Mind, (2016); and Private Terrors: Sexualized Aggression and a Psychoanalyst’s Fear of Her Patient (2002). Originally from London, Janine is in private practice in Manhattan where she integrates EMDR and creative visualization within a relational psychoanalytic framework.
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