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Please note: this 6 hour course with Dr Jordan Osserman has already taken place, tickets are for recording access only. You will receive your individual access details in the Eventbrite confirmation email, you have access for 14 days. Booking closes at 11.30pm on 31 August 2020.
We are also offering a limited number of bursary access places for £10 for those under financial hardship. Apply for a bursary place here and we will get back to you within 48 hours.
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How can psychoanalysis — as both a theory and clinical practice — productively engage with contemporary concerns surrounding gender and sexual diversity?
What is the relationship between forms of clinical psychoanalytic practice that pathologise or stigmatise particular gender/sexual identities and practices, and more progressive approaches to the field? Is psychoanalysis inherently ‘queer’, or do we have do something to it to make it so? How might clinical practitioners work to become more reflective about the ways in which social and cultural discourses of gender and sexuality impact on the analytic relationship?
- Day 1 – Introduction to theories, schools of thought and scholarship by Dr Jordan Osserman
- Day 2 – Presentations by guest speakers and discussion facilitated by chair.
Over this two-day intensive course, we will immerse ourselves in political, theoretical, and clinical spaces that bring psychoanalytic theory into contact with queer and trans experience.
Objectives:
- To develop a basic framework for how psychoanalytic theory speaks to questions of gender and sexuality
- To critically interrogate examples of how psychoanalytic practice contributes to, or challenges, the pathologization and stigmatization of gender and sexual diversity
- To establish some foundational concerns of trans and queer studies, and explore their resonances and tensions with psychoanalysis
- Through a series of talks by invited speakers, to gain an appreciation for the emerging field of ‘transpsychoanalytics’, and explore the work it is currently carrying out
Jordan Osserman is a research fellow in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck (University of London) and member of Waiting Times, a Wellcome-funded project on the temporalities of healthcare. His research concerns psychoanalytic approaches to time and their relationship to issues of gender identity. Jordan received his PhD in Gender Studies and Psychoanalysis from University College London for his dissertation on male circumcision, and he undertaking a clinical training with the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
Guest Speakers: Sheila L. Cavanagh, Noreen Giffney, Susan Stryker, Patricia Gherovici, Tobias Wiggins, Shanna Carlson, Sheldon George, Trish Salah.
