The Artist Study Group of the Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts
PRESENTS
Aesthetics of the Encounter: Psychoanalysis in Chaotic Times
with Gabriela Goldstein, PhD
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2026, 1:30-3pm/Eastern time
Attend in person or online as follows:
In person at the Institute, 20 West 74th Street, between CPW & Columbus Avenues
ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
In response to this time of radical political polarization, Gabriela Goldstein offers us an exploration of aesthetic experience as a transformative event; an unexpected encounter with works of art that may lead to a state of poetic estrangement, promoting a possible reorganization of its subject’s psychic economy. In this presentation, she will share slides and vignettes that demonstrate the experience of this state of estrangement, reflecting upon the encounter between the subject and the other or Other;between analyst and patient and in the framework provided by the analytical situation. In her new book, Art and Psychoanalysis: Between the Dialectics of the Other and Poetic Estrangement (Routledge, 2026), she considers how the metapsychology of aesthetic experience and its research contribute to a clinical understanding of processes of deficient symbolization.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTER
Gabriela Goldstein, PhD, is a training analyst of the International Psychoanalytical Association and FEPAL. She is also the former president of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and currently serves as a Latin American member of the IPA Board (2025-2027). Dr. Goldstein has authored several books and has received distinctions in psychoanalytic literature and the Arts. She is also an architect and visual artist, with exhibitions in Argentina, Europe, and the United States. She lives and works in Buenos Aires. For further information about her work, visit her website: gabrielagoldstein.com.ar
Join us for a fascinating and timely presentation!
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD, Co-Directors, Artist Study Group