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Fifteen
meetings beginning Wednesday, February 3
Cultural
Studies and Psychoanalysis:
A
Case Against Contemporary Facileness and
for a post-Lacanian Critique
 Instructor:
Joseph Scalia III, M.Ed.,
NCPsyA, Psya.D. Candidate in Psychoanalysis and
Culture
When:
Wednesdays,
12:45 to 2:10 beginning Feb. 3, 2010 for fifteen
meetings. As
always, students may phone in via conference
calling.
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.
When:
Wednesdays,
12:45 to 2:10 for fifteen meetings
Start
Date:
Feb. 3, 2010
Prerequisites:
None
Fee:
$500
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 |
February Symposium
The symposium on
February 22, 2010 (6-8 pm as always) will be an
open
discussion about jouissance/ desire,
primary/ secondary repression, narrative/ (unconscious)
fantasy. Those attending should come prepared with one
or two substantive questions about these topics.
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Practicum/Seminar/Group
Supervision
Instructor: Joseph Scalia III, PsyaD (Cand), NCPsyA
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.
When:
Mondays, 10-10:55 am.
Start
Date: Feb. 1, 2010
Prerequisites:
None
Fee:
$500
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 |
