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Psychoanalytic Knowledge

Peter Hobson, Ph.D.

Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

Dr. Hobson will speak with us on the nature and status of psychoanalytic knowledge. Does it (as some would express) belong to a non-scientific domain of meanings, not 'facts'?  Or is that knowledge of facts at the core of the psychoanalytic enterprise founded upon a knower's particular relation with psychoanalytic objects of knowledge? Dr. Hobson […]

The Alterability of the Memory Trace

Rosaura Martinez, Ph.D.

Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

Dr. Martinez will present a critical reading of Freud’s 1925 text Note upon the Mystic Writing-Pad leading to a comparison of this model of the psychic apparatus with what Derrida describes as processes of inscriptionality, arriving at the important concept of alterability of the memory trace.

Conversion Disorder: Freud, religious transformation, Foucault and Agamben

Jamieson Webster, Ph.D.

Dr. Webster will discuss the evolving of Freud's term 'Conversion Disorder' to present day ambiguity of mind-body relationships, including the phenomena of radical religious transformation. " 'Conversion Disorder' speaks a powerful truth about the way our bodies are affected by the world around us".  Dr. Webster' turns to philosophers Foucault and Agamben in this current, […]

Surviving Terror: An Interview with Ernst Federn

Helen Schoenhals Hart, Dr.med.

Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

A Film by Wilhelm Rosing & Marita Barthel-Rosing. Ernst Federn survived seven years at Buchenwald; he was the son of Paul Federn, Freud's colleague. This film is the second in a series of BPS meetings on Frued's concept of the death drive and depicts the enormous reach of human destructiveness politicized.