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6 July, 2023 - 30 September, 2023
Tickets are for recording access only, this talk took place on 5 July 2023. Ticket holders have access for one month on booking.
Join psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author of Misogyny in Psychoanalysis, Michaela Chamberlain for this evening talk, where she will give her paper, Primary Paternal Preoccupations, followed by a Q&A session.
Through the observation of a teenage girl’s experience of male gaze and the exposition of what is seen / unseen of the female experience by the patriarchal male gaze as used in a performance of Live art, this paper explores the male gaze in psychoanalysis. I argue that there is a primary preoccupation in psychoanalysis which is the pervasiveness of the gaze of patriarchal founders of the discipline. The origins of psychoanalysis have permitted misogyny to hide in plain sight in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, neglecting the impact this has on the therapeutic dyad. I emphasise the potential to retraumatise both analysands and psychoanalysts who identify as female when this misogyny is not addressed.
Michaela Chamberlain trained at the Bowlby Centre and also studied in the Psychoanalysis Unit at UCL. Shortly after qualifying at the Bowlby Centre in 2016, she started teaching Freud and attachment theory and became Chair of the Bowlby Centre. She worked as an honorary psychotherapist in two NHS Trusts for several years. She has presented clinical papers at public forums and has been published in the journal Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, New Associations and The New Psychotherapist Magazine. She was the Keynote speaker at the British Psychological Society’s Psychotherapy Division Conference in 2022.
Her new book, Misogyny in Psychoanalysis, was released in June 2022, it explores the historical and current context of misogyny in psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice. She is currently carrying out a research project on a psychoanalytic reading of gendered blood in live art and psychoanalytic writing.
She is in private practice in London as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and is a supervisor and training therapist.
Michaela Chamberlain recently discussed her book, ‘Misogyny and Psychoanalysis’ with author and psychoanalyst, Adam Philips. You can watch the recording via our On Demand archive here >>
