The Inside Game: Psychoanalysis as Resistance with Dr. Stephen Seligman

Описание: Stephen Seligman, DMH is a UCSF & NYU Clinical Professor, as well as the Training & Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis & Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.



Psychoanalysis counters ideologies that reduce human experience to biology, genetics or “the market,” despite its tarnished history: In the burgeoning world of pseudo-objects and media unrealities, authentic relationships and emotion have been depersonalized and commoditized, and interpersonal contact has been destabilized and mechanized. But psychoanalysis has always prized reflection, introspection and deep human contact. It insists that emotional cruelty and trauma are as real as physical pain, that the truth matters, and that the deeper truths matter the most. As it calls attention to the effects of depriving people of protection, resources and recognition, the analytic sensibility sustains efforts to acknowledge and take these on and reminds us of the transformative potentials of care and understanding. Analysis offers a serious but imaginative method that values curiosity and a historical sensibility, pushing against the forces that keep us from seeing what is hidden in plain sight. In a retrograde moment like ours, the analytic ethic provides a strong source of resistance.


Webinar was recorded on March 11, 2022.

This webinar is brought to you by the UCLA Center for Social Medicine and Humanities. Co-sponsored by the Research Theme in Health Equity & Translational Social Science (HETSS) and the Rangell Social Medicine Grand Rounds Series.

For more info, visit https://medschool.ucla.edu/hetss.