NORTHERN ROCKIES PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE

612 West Main St.
Bozeman, MT 59715 USA

phone: 406-585-1302
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Cultural Studies and Psychoanalysis: A Case Against Contemporary Facileness and or a post-Lacanian Critique Spring Semester 2010
Instructor:	Joseph Scalia III, PsyaD (Cand), NCPsyA
Days:	Wednesdays, for fifteen meetings, beginning February 3
Time:	12:45 to 2:10 pm.
Place:	NRPI offices, 612 West Main St., Bozeman, or by phone
Prerequisite:	None
Registration:	Tuition: $500 (due on first day of class) Registration fee for spring semester: $100 Deadline: January 15 Click here for a printable registration form
Description:	In today’s virtualized and globalized world, we run a great risk of determining humanity’s future based on the most facile of understandings, which clothe themselves in both righteousness and pseudo-technointelligence. With an appreciation for contemporary Culture Studies’ deployment of deconstructive analyses of what have too often slipped by as ideational “givens,” we will examine in detail the post-Lacanian contributions of Slavoj Zizek, Willy Apollon, and those additional thinkers who are critiquing the West’s Nietzschean Last Man approach to life, that passive nihilist position which lulls us into a terribly false sense of security and superiority, and which denies our self-destructive excesses. Jouissance and desire, and the place of a psychoanalysis which can offer a path to the leadership required to avert catastrophe, will be at the heart of our explorations. Crucial interfaces between social analysis and the consulting room will always be close at hand as we pursue these thoughts.
Practicum/Seminar/Group Supervision Spring Semester 2010
Instructor:	Joseph Scalia III, PsyaD (Cand), NCPsyA
Where:	NRPI or by phone
Start Date:	February 1, 2010
When:	Mondays, 10-10:55 am.
Prerequisites:	None
Registration:	Tuition: $500 (due on first day of class) Registration fee for spring semester: $100 Deadline: January 15 Click here for a printable registration form
Description:	This course will endeavor to provide a multi-faceted anchor for students studying psychoanalysis. As such, it will serve as something of a community contact with the institute and its members. Its main tasks of operation will center around supervision of cases on a selected basis, and overall reflection on what it can mean to be a psychoanalyst, and a study as need be of salient theoretical and practical concepts in the field.