Howard B. Levine M.D.

Sunday, June 2nd 2024, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, via Zoom

The last day to register for this event is May 28th, 2024.

Howard B. Levine, is a member of APSA, PINE, the Contemporary Freudian Society and Pulsion, on the faculty of NYU Post-Doc’s Contemporary Freudian Track, on the Editorial Board of the IJP and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, editor-in-chief of the Routledge Wilfred Bion Studies Book Series and in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the author of Transformations de l’Irreprésentable (Ithaque 2019) and Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry (Routledge 2022) and editor of The Post Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro (Routledge 2022), The Freudian Matrix of Andre Green: Towards a Psychoanalysis for the 21st Century by André Green (Routledge/IPA 2023) and Andre Green’s On The Destruction and Death Drives (Phoenix/Karnac 2023). His co-edited books include Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning (Karnac 2013); On Freud’s Screen Memories (Karnac 2014); The Wilfred Bion Tradition (Karnac 2016); Bion in Brazil (Karnac 2017); The Clinical Thinking of W.R. Bion in Brazil (Routledge 2024); André Green Revisited: Representation and the Work of the Negative (Karnac 2018); Psychoanalysis and Covidian Life (Phoenix 2021); Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited: A New Look at Bleger’s Classical Work (Routledge/IPA 2022); On the Destruction and Death Drives by André Green (Phoenix 2023); and Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: Explorations in the Emergence of Self (Phoenix 2023). ______________________________________________________________________________________

Psychoanalysis is the “talking cure,” but the problems raised by language are complex, paradoxical and perhaps unsolvable. At their most effective, words play a vital role in psychic homeostatic regulation and the psychoanalytic process that is analogous to the architecturally structural role played by the keystone of an arch. The problem, however, is that words can be used to reveal or conceal, to convey meaning or obscure, distort, hide, fragment or evacuate meaning. And sometimes the very nature of language falls short of being able to capture and adequately communicate the psychic dimensions of our emotional lives. This presentation will explore the limitations of words and language in psychoanalysis from the perspective of the work of Freud, Bion and Green

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2 Continuing Education Credits/Hours Level: All levels The last day to register for this event is May 28, 2024.

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