COLLOQUIUM
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2024
Mourning Person
Presented by
Ricky Varghese. Ph.D., R.S.W., FIPA
Co-sponsored by the Sexuality and Gender Initiative
This presentation concerns itself with the subject of the analyst’s own analysis. As such, it will consider the role analysis has played in the formation of the analyst’s self-image and how this has implications for clinical work. Of particular consideration is the relationship between disability, or the identity and identification of disability as experienced by the analyst as patient, and the scene of psychoanalytic work. How does the body appear in the analytic frame? How do we account for embodiment and how it informs strains of identification in the patient (as analyst)? Thinking with and alongside the experience of disability in the patient as analyst, how does the body become a site for both melancholic investiture and a space of mourning? These will be some of the questions we’ll explore in this talk.