Short Courses: Reduced Fee
Short courses on psychoanalytic theory and topics in the psychosocial
Now Enrolling:
Reading Lacan’s Seminar VII:
On the Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Akshi Singh & Francis GoodingSessions:
Five Wednesdays, February 5th to March 5th, 4pm-530 EST
Course Description:
Have you suffered from trying to be good? What are the aims of psychoanalysis? This course examines the provocations of Jacques Lacan’s account of psychoanalytic ethics, leading us into some of the big questions in psychic life—questions about guilt, pleasure, and desire. We’ll approach Lacan’s Seminar VII through some of its key intertexts: Freud, Aristotle, Kant, Sade, and Sophocles’ Antigone, and discuss concepts like anamorphosis, the pleasure principle, das Ding amongst others. Placing the seminar in the contexts of art history, literature, and philosophy, we’ll avoid the jargon and mystification that can accompany discussions of Lacan’s work. Rather than trying to fix the meaning of Lacan’s text, or attempting to arrive at the ‘correct’ reading, our aim through the seminar will be to open it out to interpretation and questioning.
Akshi Singh is an Associate Editor at Parapraxis and Deputy Editor at Critical Quarterly. In Defence of Leisure, a memoir about reading the work of the writer, artist and psychoanalyst Marion Milner will be out in May 2025, with Jonathan Cape. She is a Lacanian analyst in formation.
Francis Gooding is a writer and Contributing Editor at the London Review of Books, a regular columnist for The Wire, and Contributing Editor at Critical Quarterly. He has written widely on music, ecology, anthropology, colonial film, and art.
On Loss
Dr. Lynne Zeavin Sessions:
Five Saturdays, March 1,8,22,29
Course Description:
To come
Dr. Lynne Zeavin is a training and supervising analyst at the NYPSI. She teaches and supervises widely from within the contemporary Kleinian tradition. She is on the board of the Psychosocial Foundation and an associate editor of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is in full time private practice in New York City.
Echolocation and Opacity: Practicing Psychoanalysis With/out the Internal World
Er Linsker Sessions:
Five Sundays, April 6-May 4, 1-2:30pm ET
Course Description:
to come.
Er Linsker practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children, adolescents, adults, and couples in New York City. They are the author of two books of poems, A Crisis Came Into Me and La Far, and are a contributing editor at Parapraxis, where their piece "Neurodiverse Economies: Before Splitting Into Value" is forthcoming and their piece "Post-Bionian Blur Theory" appeared. This past year their piece "Paraontological Psychoanalysis" appeared in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and at the Psychosocial Foundation they taught the course Paraontological Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Clinical Examples.
Encountering Representations of Evil and Sadism
Donald Moss Sessions:
May 4, 11, 18, 24, 12-1:30pm EST
Course Description:
Any encounter with representations of evil and of sadism provokes both identificatory and disidentificatory impulses. We might see ourselves as we are; we might see ourselves as we must never be. The mix can be disturbing, disorienting and confusing. Theoretical considerations can help us keep our balance. But these same considerations can strip the encounter of its reality and therefore of its force. In this four-session sequence, we will study some exemplary representations of evil and sadism and consider them from both theoretical and visceral points of view. Our aim will be to bring those points of view into generative interaction with each other.
Donald Moss has been a psychoanalyst in New York for 40 years and was most recently the recipient of the Haskell Norman Prize for excellence in psychoanalysis (2020). He is part of the College Executive of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, a member of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in the American Psychoanalytic Association, on the Editorial Board of Parapraxis, and is the author of several books, most recently Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year and At War with the Obvious: Disruptive Thinking in Psychoanalysis.
Short courses on psychoanalytic theory and topics in the psychosocial
Now Enrolling:
Reading Lacan’s Seminar VII:
On the Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Akshi Singh & Francis GoodingSessions:
Five Wednesdays, February 5th to March 5th, 4pm-530 EST
Course Description:
Have you suffered from trying to be good? What are the aims of psychoanalysis? This course examines the provocations of Jacques Lacan’s account of psychoanalytic ethics, leading us into some of the big questions in psychic life—questions about guilt, pleasure, and desire. We’ll approach Lacan’s Seminar VII through some of its key intertexts: Freud, Aristotle, Kant, Sade, and Sophocles’ Antigone, and discuss concepts like anamorphosis, the pleasure principle, das Ding amongst others. Placing the seminar in the contexts of art history, literature, and philosophy, we’ll avoid the jargon and mystification that can accompany discussions of Lacan’s work. Rather than trying to fix the meaning of Lacan’s text, or attempting to arrive at the ‘correct’ reading, our aim through the seminar will be to open it out to interpretation and questioning.
Akshi Singh is an Associate Editor at Parapraxis and Deputy Editor at Critical Quarterly. In Defence of Leisure, a memoir about reading the work of the writer, artist and psychoanalyst Marion Milner will be out in May 2025, with Jonathan Cape. She is a Lacanian analyst in formation.
Francis Gooding is a writer and Contributing Editor at the London Review of Books, a regular columnist for The Wire, and Contributing Editor at Critical Quarterly. He has written widely on music, ecology, anthropology, colonial film, and art.
On Loss
Dr. Lynne Zeavin Sessions:
Five Saturdays, March 1,8,22,29
Course Description:
To come
Dr. Lynne Zeavin is a training and supervising analyst at the NYPSI. She teaches and supervises widely from within the contemporary Kleinian tradition. She is on the board of the Psychosocial Foundation and an associate editor of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is in full time private practice in New York City.
Echolocation and Opacity: Practicing Psychoanalysis With/out the Internal World
Er Linsker Sessions:
Five Sundays, April 6-May 4, 1-2:30pm ET
Course Description:
to come.
Er Linsker practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children, adolescents, adults, and couples in New York City. They are the author of two books of poems, A Crisis Came Into Me and La Far, and are a contributing editor at Parapraxis, where their piece "Neurodiverse Economies: Before Splitting Into Value" is forthcoming and their piece "Post-Bionian Blur Theory" appeared. This past year their piece "Paraontological Psychoanalysis" appeared in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and at the Psychosocial Foundation they taught the course Paraontological Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Clinical Examples.
Encountering Representations of Evil and Sadism
Donald Moss Sessions:
May 4, 11, 18, 24, 12-1:30pm EST
Course Description:
Any encounter with representations of evil and of sadism provokes both identificatory and disidentificatory impulses. We might see ourselves as we are; we might see ourselves as we must never be. The mix can be disturbing, disorienting and confusing. Theoretical considerations can help us keep our balance. But these same considerations can strip the encounter of its reality and therefore of its force. In this four-session sequence, we will study some exemplary representations of evil and sadism and consider them from both theoretical and visceral points of view. Our aim will be to bring those points of view into generative interaction with each other.
Donald Moss has been a psychoanalyst in New York for 40 years and was most recently the recipient of the Haskell Norman Prize for excellence in psychoanalysis (2020). He is part of the College Executive of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, a member of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in the American Psychoanalytic Association, on the Editorial Board of Parapraxis, and is the author of several books, most recently Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year and At War with the Obvious: Disruptive Thinking in Psychoanalysis.
Short courses on psychoanalytic theory and topics in the psychosocial
Now Enrolling:
Reading Lacan’s Seminar VII:
On the Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Akshi Singh & Francis GoodingSessions:
Five Wednesdays, February 5th to March 5th, 4pm-530 EST
Course Description:
Have you suffered from trying to be good? What are the aims of psychoanalysis? This course examines the provocations of Jacques Lacan’s account of psychoanalytic ethics, leading us into some of the big questions in psychic life—questions about guilt, pleasure, and desire. We’ll approach Lacan’s Seminar VII through some of its key intertexts: Freud, Aristotle, Kant, Sade, and Sophocles’ Antigone, and discuss concepts like anamorphosis, the pleasure principle, das Ding amongst others. Placing the seminar in the contexts of art history, literature, and philosophy, we’ll avoid the jargon and mystification that can accompany discussions of Lacan’s work. Rather than trying to fix the meaning of Lacan’s text, or attempting to arrive at the ‘correct’ reading, our aim through the seminar will be to open it out to interpretation and questioning.
Akshi Singh is an Associate Editor at Parapraxis and Deputy Editor at Critical Quarterly. In Defence of Leisure, a memoir about reading the work of the writer, artist and psychoanalyst Marion Milner will be out in May 2025, with Jonathan Cape. She is a Lacanian analyst in formation.
Francis Gooding is a writer and Contributing Editor at the London Review of Books, a regular columnist for The Wire, and Contributing Editor at Critical Quarterly. He has written widely on music, ecology, anthropology, colonial film, and art.
On Loss
Dr. Lynne Zeavin Sessions:
Five Saturdays, March 1,8,22,29
Course Description:
To come
Dr. Lynne Zeavin is a training and supervising analyst at the NYPSI. She teaches and supervises widely from within the contemporary Kleinian tradition. She is on the board of the Psychosocial Foundation and an associate editor of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is in full time private practice in New York City.
Echolocation and Opacity: Practicing Psychoanalysis With/out the Internal World
Er Linsker Sessions:
Five Sundays, April 6-May 4, 1-2:30pm ET
Course Description:
to come.
Er Linsker practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children, adolescents, adults, and couples in New York City. They are the author of two books of poems, A Crisis Came Into Me and La Far, and are a contributing editor at Parapraxis, where their piece "Neurodiverse Economies: Before Splitting Into Value" is forthcoming and their piece "Post-Bionian Blur Theory" appeared. This past year their piece "Paraontological Psychoanalysis" appeared in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and at the Psychosocial Foundation they taught the course Paraontological Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Clinical Examples.
Encountering Representations of Evil and Sadism
Donald Moss Sessions:
May 4, 11, 18, 24, 12-1:30pm EST
Course Description:
Any encounter with representations of evil and of sadism provokes both identificatory and disidentificatory impulses. We might see ourselves as we are; we might see ourselves as we must never be. The mix can be disturbing, disorienting and confusing. Theoretical considerations can help us keep our balance. But these same considerations can strip the encounter of its reality and therefore of its force. In this four-session sequence, we will study some exemplary representations of evil and sadism and consider them from both theoretical and visceral points of view. Our aim will be to bring those points of view into generative interaction with each other.
Donald Moss has been a psychoanalyst in New York for 40 years and was most recently the recipient of the Haskell Norman Prize for excellence in psychoanalysis (2020). He is part of the College Executive of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, a member of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in the American Psychoanalytic Association, on the Editorial Board of Parapraxis, and is the author of several books, most recently Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year and At War with the Obvious: Disruptive Thinking in Psychoanalysis.