Penumbr(a)cast - The Other Scene

Fernanda Negrete
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Podcast for the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Culture. Interviews on contemporary psychoanalysis.

  1. AUG 22

    Child and Creativity, with Heidi Arsenault and Daniel Wilson

    In this episode Heidi Arsenault and Daniel Wilson discuss ARIA, their clinical practice through music and play with nonspeaking children and teens from around the world in Montreal, as a way of exploring a concept of the child that takes subjective experience and its search for an unprecedented space-time into account. The notion of creativity is considered from the perspective of a subjective experience that seeks expression and can be accompanied and sustained rather than limited or interpreted by others, in this case the adults around the child. The concepts of child and creativity are discussed in today's context of mundialization, AI, and medical focus on the child's symptoms through diagnoses, psychotropic, and behavioral treatments.  With thanks to Kellen Corrallo for sound editing.

    1h 13m

  2. FEB 21

    Negation, with Monique David-Ménard

    In this interview, philosopher and psychoanalyst Monique David-Ménard shares her investigation of negation as a phenomenon with a specific function under transference in her clinical practice, and also as a concept in the writings of Freud, Lacan, Hyppolite, Hegel, and Kant. David-Ménard shows the  articulations of the two disciplines she engages, as well as their differences and limits when faced with questions of negativity. The conversation emphasizes the creative, transformative potential of negativity in the scene of analysis, when the unconscious is conceived in ethical rather than ontological terms.  Many thanks to Kellen Corrallo for his editorial assistance with the audio file.

    1h 31m

  3. 05/19/2024

    New Psychoanalytic Spaces 3, with Sophie Mendelsohn

    In this episode of the New Psychoanalytic Spaces sub-series, Sophie Mendelsohn responds to questions about the work of the Collectif de Pantin she founded in 2018 and continues to operate in Pantin, a diverse Paris suburb, with a focus on interrogating race in the analytic experience and on observing the effects of taking race, as well as coloniality and postcoloniality, into account in clinical and social contexts. Sophie Mendelsohn reflects on problems of articulating clinical experience to the social and political in Lacanian psychoanalytic institutions in France since 1967, as well as on the notion and necessity of a concrete universal.  Sophie Mendelsohn has a private psychoanalytic practice in Paris, and she is the author of Vagabondes (Arachnéen, 2015), as well as of many essays. With Livio Boni she has coedited La vie psychique du racisme (La Découverte, 2021) and, most recently, Psychanalyse du reste du monde. Géo-histoire d'une subversion (La Découverte, 2023). Collectif de Pantin website: https://www.collectifdepantin.org/ Thanks to Kellen Corrallo for editorial assistance with the audio file.

    1h 40m

  4. 02/14/2024

    Effects of the Artwork 6, with Derek Hook

    This episode’s interview is with Derek Hook, who studies and practices psychoanalysis and is Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University. He is the author of Six Moments in Lacan, among many other works and important edited volumes on Lacan’s Écrits and Lacan and Race, among others. To respond to the prompt for this series of Penumbr(a)cast, on a life-changing or at least impactful artwork, following Freud’s powerful experience with Michelangelo’s Moses sculpture, Dr. Hook points to an image from photojournalism in 1994, where three members of a neo-Nazi group in South Africa are arrested and killed at the end of apartheid during the Bophuthatswana crisis. Hook's experience with this image prompts a fascinating discussion on his trajectory discovering psychoanalysis, white privilege, racism, and embodiment, and to his recent work of reading Lacan in conversation with Afropessimism. Many thanks as always to Kellen Corrallo for his work on sound editing.

    1h 28m

  5. 11/29/2023

    Tact, with Fabrice Bourlez (in English)

    In this episode, Fabrice Bourlez, who teaches aesthetics (ENSBA) and practices psychoanalysis in Paris, speaks about his exploration of concepts of tact and elasticity in his practice, and in his reading of Freud, Ferenczi, and Lacan, as well as of Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, and queer theory. The author of Pulsions pasoliniennes (Pasolinean Drives) and of Queer psychanalyse: clinique mineure et déconstructions du genre (Queer Psychoanalysis: Minor Clinic and Deconstructions of Gender) discusses the importance of sustaining a conversation across queer politics and the metapsychology and technique of psychoanalysis in the 21st century, as part of awakening ethics and listening in a minor mode. Amelia Gayle reads the English translation in this recording. Interview translated from French by Cynthia Mitchell. Thanks to Kellen Corrallo for his editorial work.

    1h 13m

  6. 11/29/2023

    Tact and Elasticity, with Fabrice Bourlez (en français)

    In this episode, Fabrice Bourlez, who teaches aesthetics (ENSBA) and practices psychoanalysis in Paris, speaks about his exploration of concepts of tact and elasticity in his practice, and in his reading of Freud, Ferenczi, and Lacan, as well as of Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, and queer theory. The author of Pulsions pasoliniennes (Pasolinean Drives) and of Queer psychanalyse: clinique mineure et déconstructions du genre (Queer Psychoanalysis: Minor Clinic and Deconstructions of Gender) discusses the importance of sustaining a conversation across queer politics and the metapsychology and technique of psychoanalysis in the 21st century, as part of awakening ethics and listening in a minor mode. Psychanalyste et professeur à l'École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA), Fabrice Bourlez parle dans cet épisode de son travail avec les concepts de tact et d'élasticité dans son travail clinique et dans sa lecture de Freud, de Ferenczi et de Lacan, aussi bien que dans la lecture d'écrivains tels que Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, et de la théorie queer. L'auteur de Pulsions pasoliniennes et de Queer psychanalyse: clinique mineure et déconstructions du genre souligne l'importance de soutenir, au 21ème siècle, une conversation de la politique queer avec la métapsychologie et la technique de la psychanalyse. Il s'agit, suggère-t-il, d'une tactique pour réveiller une éthique et une entente en mode mineur.  Merci à Kellen Corrallo pour son travail avec le fichier audio.

    1h 24m

  7. 10/10/2023

    Effects of the Artwork 5, with Stephen Sternbach

    In this episode, Dr. Stephen Sternbach (Harvard Medical School; Cambridge Health Alliance; member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and of the École freudienne du Québec) speaks of his journey into psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and also literature as a space to explore the encounter with the Real. Sternbach discusses the changing relationship to psychoanalysis in psychiatric education and practice over the past decades in the United States. He touches on the concept of the defect in language in Willy Apollon's metapsychology, and concludes by sharing his aesthetic experience with a Wordsworth poem.

    51 min

  8. 07/17/2023

    New Psychoanalytic Spaces 2 (Unseen City), with Ankhi Mukherjee

    This episode's interview with Ankhi Mukherjee focuses on her recent book, Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor. It discusses Mukherjee's research on Freud's free clinics and their afterlives in different cities and projects that make psychoanalytic interventions in marginalized communities. We discuss the roles literary criticism can play in the work of these clinics, as well as the urgent need for spaces for subjectivity that are not limited to economic elites and that extend beyond the couch. Many thanks to  Kellen Corrallo for editorial work on the episode.

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Podcast for the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Culture. Interviews on contemporary psychoanalysis.

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  • Creator
    Fernanda Negrete
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    26
  • Rating
    Explicit
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