For many of us, an empathic stance towards our patients forms the foundation of how we practice. This paper problematizes the typical psychoanalytic conceptualization of empathy as requiring the analyst to find something in themselves that resonates with the patient’s experience. Self-reference, it is argued, is both a limiting and potentially colonizing stance towards the […]
DISTURBING THE SLEEP OF THE WORLD: PSYCHOANALYSIS, SOCIAL AWAKENING & RADICAL POLITICS The Colloquium Series 2023-2024, presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute The Fundamental Radicalism of Psychoanalysis from Freud to Fanon ELIZABETH ANN DANTO, PhD and DANIEL JOSÉ GAZTAMBIDE, PsyD DISCUSSANT: PASCAL SAUVAYRE, PhD About Dr. Danto's Presentation: Class, Conscious […]