Pulsion: Inaugural Symposium November 5, 2022 in NYC

People can still register at Pulsion’s Website 

https://pulsioninstitute.com/symposium/

Pulsion emerged in the pandemic as an attempt to bring back what was central to Freud’s thinking, the body, the drives and sexuality, in order to meet our current societal demands. Beyond the urgencies of our days, one impetus for the creation of Pulsion rests on our deep concern about the relative abandonment, in American psychoanalysis at the very least, of Freudian drives and their socio-anthropological roots and effects.

In keeping with this spirit, our inaugural symposium will take place on November 5, 2022, in New York, as a hybrid event featuring an international platform of psychoanalytic theorists and clinicians. We see this as a timely and necessary intervention in psychoanalysis as a discipline undergoing a shift in the ways in which it thinks the psychic and social together, as bodily, sexual, drive-oriented phenomena.

For this Symposium, we have chosen to explore “Sexuality and its Discontents: The Erasure of the Feminine in Our Days.” Events of recent days may have brought into sharper focus certain startling manifestations of this erasure, but our presenters will contextualize it as a fundamental element in the larger landscape of a decrease of Eros and an increase of disaffection in a contemporary world of hyperconnectivity, isolation and the perverse societal demand to enjoy in the bliss of ignorance.

In the contemporary context of socio-political malaise, viral threat, global war conflict and epistemological confusion, we intend that the guiding concepts of Pulsion will help us to advance our thinking and, perhaps most importantly, to train a new generation of psychoanalysts to treat not only today’s patients, but also patients for the generations to come and to address the larger socio-political concerns.

Pulsion investigates the relationship between social structure/phenomena and the structures/phenomena of the psyche. In American psychoanalysis we see the psychic and social having been split into the academic and the psychoanalytic. We mean to bring into being an institute constructed to think across these realms. For this reason, we intend to think alongside psychoanalytically oriented academics as we develop the thought of Pulsion with respect to new or emerging clinical realities.

Pulsion’s academic and training missions incubate the fervent hope to foster a new and renewed appetite within the younger generations for Freud with his revolutionary discoveries of sexuality and the unconscious. We bring together Freudians, post-Freudians and Lacanians as faculty and aspire to attract young candidates, practicing clinicians of course, but also academics from a wealth of related disciplines.

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