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Reading Freud: A Theory of Origins and the Origin of Theory
Jonathan House, M.D.
Saturday, March 7 from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM ET
Psychoanalysis has an originary tendency, a preoccupation with origins, a vocation for origins—the origins of symptoms and of dreams, of sexuality and of character, in short, the origin of the human subject. But what are the origins of psychoanalysis itself? How did it all begin?
Join us for an interactive discussion with Dr. Jonathan House as he explores these foundational questions concerning the beginnings of psychoanalysis. Together, we will reflect not only on how psychoanalysis began, but on what it means to read Freud well today: how to approach Freud’s texts in both problem and delight, how to move through what feels incomplete, internally contradictory, and only partially elaborated, and how theory itself can remain clinically vital. In particular, we will consider what value theorizing still holds in contemporary clinical work, and how a careful engagement with psychoanalysis’s origins might deepen our understanding of practice in the present.
References to be provided on registration.
About Jonathan House, M.D.
Jonathan House is a training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is a lecturer at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, all at Columbia University. House is the General Editor of The Unconscious in Translation, a publishing house largely responsible for translating many of Jean Laplanche’s works for the Anglophone world. He is currently in private practice in New York, NY.
House has published, translated, and edited several works. Most recently, his article, “The Ongoing Rediscovery of Après-Coup as a Central Freudian Concept,” published in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association won the JAPA prize for 2017. He is responsible for the English translations of The New Foundations for Psychoanalysis and Après-Coup: Problématiques VI by Jean Laplanche as well as editing several of his other works. House has been actively involved in both the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association.
Saturday, March 7 from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM ET
Location: Zoom
Fees:
Free to LPSG Members
$15 for Students and Residents
$25 for Professionals and Clinicians
