Gender as Soft Assembly [Archive]
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This conference, based on a book by Adrienne Harris, Gender as Soft Assembly, will follow two conversational threads. First, we will trace the evolution of psychoanalytic ideas about gender, from Freud (revolutionary and conservative) through the woman analysts of the 20s, the core femininity neo Freudian work of the 60s and early 70s, the feminst transformations of the 70s and 80’s and the move through queer theory and the attention to gender’s astonishing complexity: transgendering, intersex, gender fluidity and gender multiplicity. We will move through a theoretical and clinical space from gender as a bedrock essential structure to gender as a fluid, multi-functional, unpredictable function. And perhaps to the end of gender? We will consider the intersections of sexuality and gender, the role of words and representation in gender instantiation and the vexing matter of normativity and social regulation in matters of sex and gender. The panelists in this portion of the course are Muriel Dimen, Gerald Fogel, Virginia Goldner, and Debra Roth, along with Adrienne Harris
The second project for this conference is to introduce and develop ideas about chaos theory, Nonlinear dynamic systems theory or complexity theory (to give its different names) as a useful tool for clinical psychoanalysis and for developmental theorizing. What becomes of ‘drives’ in this new model? Can the model handle the complexity we find in daily clinical life? This fascinating but demanding topic will be discussed by David Olds, Billie Pivnick and Steven Seligman, again joined by Adrienne Harris.
The conference will begin with an interview with Adrienne Harris conducted by Sam Gerson and will conclude with a Q and A with Adrienne Harris and the course attendees.
This course will address cutting edge issues in gender studies, in developmental theory and in new models for clinical and developmental process. Participants include analysts and thinkers who have and are making original contributions to these topics.
Two chapters of the book Gender as Soft Assembly will be posted to organize discussion thought panelists may refer to other material in the book or in their own work. Chs 3 and 8 will be posted on the website.
Gender as Soft Assembly is published by The Analytic Press who offer a 20% discount when the book is ordered form this website.
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EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. To learn about the evolution and development of models of gender identity.
2. To learn about the interaction of matters of sexuality and gender, to learn new models of modern gender formation, i.e. transgender, gay and lesbian identity, and the power of normativity in identity formation
3. To learn the new conceptual tools of Nonlinear Dynhamci systems theory as it may be applicable to clinical process and psychoanalytic developmental theory.
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Faculty
Muriel Dimen, Ph.D
Muriel Dimen, Ph.D. is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and former Professor of Anthropology, Lehman College (CUNY). On the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, the Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Psychoanalysis, and other institutes, she is Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and a founding board member and former Treasurer of the International Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Her most recent book, Sexuality, Intimacy, Power (Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 2003), received the Goethe Award from the Canadian Psychological Association for the Best Book of Psychoanalytic Scholarship published in 2003. She has also written Surviving Sexual Contradictions (NY: Macmillan, 1986) and The Anthropological Imagination (N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1977). Her co-edited books are Gender in Psychoanalytic Space: Between Clinic and Culture with Virginia Goldner (NY: The Other Press, 2002); Storms in Her Head: New Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives on Breuer and Freud’s Studies on Hysteria with Adrienne Harris (NY: The Other Press, 2001); and Regional Variation in Modern Greece and Cyprus: Toward an Ethnography of Greece with Ernestine Friedl (Annals, New York Academy of Sciences 263, 1976). A Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, she practices in Manhattan and supervises nationally. MDimen@PSYCHOANALYSIS.NET
Gerald Fogel
Gerald Fogel is a training and supervising analyst, founding member, and former director of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute. Before moving to Portland in 1996, he had been affiliated with the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center in New York City. He has edited books on perversion, the psychology of men, and the work of Hans Loewald, and written numerous papers and book reviews for psychoanalytic journals. He is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Studies in Gender and Sexuality and has served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychotherapy.
Sam Gerson, Ph.D.
Sam Gerson, Ph.D. is on the faculty, a personal and supervising analyst, and a Past-President of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco. He is an Editor for "Psychoanalytic Quarterly", "Psychoanalytic Dialogues" and "Studies in Gender and Sexuality". His recent work includes articles on "The Relational Unconscious" (Jan. 2004 in the Psychoanalytic Quarterly) and "Unconscious Phantasy or Relational Reality" (in a forthcoming issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry).
Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.
Adrienne Harris is an the faculty and supervises at the New York University Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She also teaches at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and of a new journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She has co-edited with Lewis Aron, The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi and a forthcoming book, Storms in Her Head with Muriel Dimen. She is preparing a book on developmental theory and chaos theory called Gender as a Soft Assembly. She writes on the topic of gender, developmental theory and psycholinguistics.
David Olds, MD
Dr. Olds is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia P&S and a training and supervising analyst at The Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
He received his BA in philosophy at Yale University, his MD at Columbia, his psychiatric training at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and his psychoanalytic training at Columbia.
He has taught courses in psychotherapy to the residents at Columbia, and courses in psychoanalytic theory and the biological sciences at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center. He has organized the development of the interdisciplinary studies program at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, which has become probably the most ambitious program of this sort in the country. He is on the editorial board of the journal Neuro-Psychoanalysis.
He has written articles on the subjects of semiotics and information theory, the biology of consciousness, and neural-network theory in psychoanalysis, and recently a paper on the biological foundations of the psychoanalytic concept of identification.
Billie Pivnick, Ph.D.
Dr. Billie Pivnick is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Greenwich Village, New York City. She specializes in the treatment of trauma-related psychopathology in adults and adolescents and teaches courses on lifespan development and child/adolescent psychotherapy as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, and as a faculty member of the Washington Square Institute Family Forensic Psychology Training Program. Her study, Symbolization and its Discontents: The Impact of Threatened Object Loss on the Discourse and Symptomatology of Hospitalized Psychotic Patients, won IPTAR’s Stanley Berger Award for its contribution to the field of psychoanalysis. Formerly faculty and supervisor in the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health Child/Adolescent Analytic Training Program and Research Coordinator for the Barnard Toddler Center, she has presented her work at both the International Conference for Infancy Studies (ICIS) and at the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). As one of the pioneers in the use of dance/movement therapy in the treatment of chronic pain and disease in both children and adults, she was also an Associate Professor in the Graduate Creative Arts Therapy Program at Pratt Institute and authored Wriggles, squiggles and words: From expression to meaning in early childhood and psychotherapy, which appeared in A. Robbins’ (1998) Therapeutic Presence.
Debra Roth
Debra Roth is a faculty member at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and a contributing editor at Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She has a private practice in Manhattan.
Stephen Seligman D.M.H
Stephen Seligman, a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Infant-Parent Program, University of California, San Francisco. He is also a personal and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and a member of the faculty of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and the Infant Studies Program of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services in New York City. He is also contributing editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, associate editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, a member of the founding executive board of the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, and an editorial reader for The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.
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