Co-hosted by NJI (The New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis)

Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP Sunday, January 28, 2024 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm EST,  Via Zoom

Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychoanalysis at Columbia University where she teaches graduate students and candidates in training. She is also in private practice in New York City. She is the author Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia (Fordham UP, 2021), Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche (Routledge, 2021) and Aural History (Punctum, 2020). She is on the Faculty of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City, and her primary areas of academic and clinical expertise include affect-thought disorders, trauma, identity, and sexuality.

Learning Objectives:

1) Describe what Laplanche means by the competing “Ptolemaic” and “Copernican” tendencies of psychoanalysis.

(2) Describe the importance of the “seduction theory” to psychoanalysis, and in particular, how Laplanche’s ideas on this topic differ from existing formulations.

(3) Define Laplanche’s concept of “enlarged” sexuality.

(4) Describe Laplanche’s theory of translation.

(5) Explain how Laplanche’s ideas of seduction, sexuality and translation can conduce to new conceptual foundations for psychoanalysis.

2 Continuing Education Credits/Hours Level