‘His Father, He Has Murdered A Child’, Maurice APPREY, December 3th 2011

How Does An Analysand Identify With A Father To Cultivate The Paternal Function When,
Like His Father, He Has Murdered A Child?

The Deployment Of Two Analytıc Tradıtıons To Restore The Paternal Functıon
December 3,  2011 Saturday, at 6 pm

Psychoanalysts are accustomed to working with analysands with a view to negotiating and resolving the Oedipus complex in order to arrive at symbolic, real, and healthy identifications with their inside and outside parents. It is rare, however, to have an opportunity to analyze a subject who has killed like his father. In such a situation, how does a subject identify with his father without confirming that he is a murderer?
This paper provides an account of the resolution of the Oedipus complex using two apparently antithetical traditions. Therefore instead of psychoanalysts thinking in terms of dueling paradigms, we could begin to think in terms of mediating paradigms.
It will accordingly serve as a plea for a philosophical pragmatism that would encourage psychoanalysts to learn multiple traditions of thought and praxes in order to optimally advance the treatment of analysands.

Maurice Apprey PhD, DM, FIPA, is a  psychoanalyst, and a full professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia. He trained at the Anna Freud Centre, London and the New York Freudian Society in child, adolescent and adult psychoanalysis. He is a teacher and supervisor in the training program of Psike Istanbul candidates sponsored by the IPA. The philosophical foundation behind his work is the reception of French Phenomenology (Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gaston Bachelard, Jean-Luc Marion, Claude Romano, etc) from Classical German Phenomenology (mainly Husserl).

Participation: Open to psychoanalysts, candidates, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychological counselors, social workers, psychiatric nurses, psychiatric assistants, and psychology and psychological counseling undergraduate and graduate students.

Language: English with consecutive translation to Turkish.

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