Conference (Hybrid)

PSYCHOANALYTIC EXPOSITIONS AND INNOVATIONS OVER A LONG CAREER (1979-2024)

Salman AKHTAR

In the first part of the lecture, Salman Akhtar will discuss his explanatory and innovative contributions to the literature and practice of psychoanalysis, based on his theoretical and clinical experience gained during his long career in psychoanalysis. After reviewing Freud’s views on the death instinct, mourning, melancholia and religious belief, Klein’s manic defense and phantasy associated to Mahler’s separation-individuation, he will discuss his innovative contributions to psychoanalysis such as optimal distance, third individuation, schizoid wish to die and be reborn, forgiveness and human goodness.

In the second part, he will discuss the obstacles and techniques that we encounter in the work of the analyst-analysand pair in the analytic room through case examples. The main themes of the work in this part will be the transition from schisms through synthesis to informed oscillations, the four types of psychoanalytic listening and impediment to listening, bicultural treatments, the meaning of the analytic setting/framework, the technical handling of pauses, the simplicity-contradiction-paradox sequence, refusal to listen, imaginary interlocutors and stillness.

PROGRAM

10:00-12:00 Part I Psychoanalytic Theory
Moderator: Cemile SERİN GÜRDAL

12:00-12:30 Coffee Break

12:30-14:00 Part II Psychoanalytic Technique
Moderator: Cemile SERİN GÜRDAL

* Simultaneous translation will be provided. (Turkish – English)

Salman Akhtar, MD is an internationally known psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, writer, and poet based in the United States. He has published 110 authored or edited books and given lectures and workshops in over 40 countries. Dr. Akhtar has served on the editorial boards of the three most important journals of our field, namely Journal of The American Psychoanalytic Association, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalytic Quarterly. His books have been translated in many languages and he has received numerous professional honors, including the highly prestigious Sigourney Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychoanalysis. Recently a 10-volume set of his Selected Papers was released at a festive ceremony at the Freud House& Museum in London. Dr. Akhtar has published 18 collections of poetry and serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia.

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