First World Problems and Gated Communities of the Mind: An Ethics of Place in Psychoanalysis– Francisco González, MD Scientific Program

Fee to attend: $30 for NOBPC members; $50 non-members; and $15 student rate. All attendees will receive a 2 hour CME certificate. This meeting is virtual. Pre-registration is required.

Using the social meme of “first world problems” as an opening, this paper articulates a continuous field of psychoanalysis which extends from the individual to the social, a field demarcated by a sense of place and materiality. It problematizes the closed-door mentality of institutional psychoanalysis, arguing for a different future for psychoanalysis in the 21st century Thinking of psychoanalysis in this way, as an extended field, opens the door to conceiving of ways of practicing that are typically neglected in our theorizing, both within conventional dyadic work in the consulting room and well beyond, to community psychoanalysis. But this broader way of conceptualizing psychoanalytic practice also troubles us with ethical considerations, since we always close the door on something or, more importantly, on someone. These ideas are illustrated by clinical examples.

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe two registers or domains of the unconscious and give examples of how they present in clinical work.
2. Critique the conventional notion of the psychoanalytic frame and contrast it to the idea of demarcation of the social field.

Francisco J. González, MD, is Faculty and Personal & Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He has worked as staff psychiatrist and supervisor at Instituto Familiar de la Raza, a clinic for Latino immigrants in San Francisco, for over 20 years. He serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

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