Latest Past Events

    Freud, Lacan and Race in Contemporary America– Sheldon George, PhD Scientific Presentation

    Virtual Event via Zoom LA

    Sponsored by The Svenson Lectureship Fund Fee to attend: $30 for NOBPC members; $50 non-members; and $15 student rate. All attendees will receive a 3 hour CME certificate. This meeting is virtual. Pre-registration is required. The tripartite familial structure of the oedipal complex has been central to Freudian understandings of the psychoanalytic subject. In the ... Read more

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

    Virtual Event via Zoom LA

    Sponsored by The Knight Fund 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 ... Read more

    Galadriel’s Mirror-and Winnicott’s, and Lacan’s by John Rosegrant, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)

    NOBPC 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans

    Lacan and Winnicott both believed that mirroring was very important in early development, but focused on different aspects and outcomes. Lacan theorized that when a young child first views her reflection in a mirror and sees her image as complete, her anxiety about her actually undeveloped and unintegrated state is relieved; henceforth she imagines herself ... Read more