This conference is open to all members of the British Psychoanalytical Council; other interested parties are welcome at the discretion of the organising committee. Please contact Marjory Goodall - marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk for advice.
Friday 18th September (evening) reception - 18:30 - 20:45pm
Saturday 19th September 2015 Conference - 08.30 - 17.15pm
Speakers:
Jan Abram (UK)
Litza Green (France)
Gregorio Kohon (UK)
Michael Parsons (UK)
Rosine Jozef Perelberg (UK)
Jed Sekoff (USA)
Fernando Urribarri (Argentina)
Conference fee: £ 140. Click here to book online.
Green’s work constitutes a paradigmatic shift in psychoanalysis. Green drew a clear distinction between neurotic and borderline patients, each type conforming to a different psychic organisation, and requiring alternative ways of analytic listening. Bion and Winnicott have been highly influential in his work, in addition to Freud, as he was deeply impressed by their clinical and theoretical innovations. Nevertheless, two different contemporary paradigms derived from his writings have been established: one assumes the existence of an object, be it good or bad, benign or malignant, present or absent, from the beginning of life. In the second paradigm, the very question of representation, a basic function of the mind, has been expanded, its understanding having become somewhat more complex. It is now possible to ponder how a memory is capable of not being represented: the original object may not have existed or it might not have been registered as a presence in the psyche of the subject. Such patients cannot symbolise the trauma nor can they contain the destructiveness present in their predicament.
Throughout this day and a half, leading international thinkers in contemporary psychoanalysis will offer their reflections on the way Andre Green has influenced their clinical work and theoretical developments.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Friday evening:
6:30-7:15 Reception
7:15-7:25 Introduction - Jan Abram
7:25-7:40 Opening remarks - Litza Green
7:40-8:45 Andre Green Itinerary: Keys Ideas Revisited (1960/2011) - An interview with Andre Green (film, with Fernando Urribarri)
Chair: Gregorio Kohon
Saturday - Morning:
8:30-:9:30 Registration and coffee
9:35-10:10 Rosine Jozef Perelberg: The Framing Structure and its Representation in the Analytic Setting
10:10-10:50 Jed Sekoff: Troubled Bodies: Hypochondria, Transformation, and the Work of the Negative
10:50-11: 20 Coffee break
11:20-11:55: Gregorio Kohon: Space and Time in the Aesthetics of Eduardo Chillida
11:55-13:00 Open Discussion
Chair for the morning session: Jan Abram
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Saturday - Afternoon:
2:30-3:15 Michael Parsons: Intellectual Generosity: the Greekness of Green.
15-3:45 Coffee break
3:45-4:30 Fernando Urribarri: On Clinical Thinking: from the Extension of the Psychoanalytic Field toward a New Contemporary Paradigm
16:30-17:15 Open Discussion
Chair for the afternoon session: Rosine Jozef Perelberg
