by Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC)

JOIN PINC FOR A DAY WITH M. FAKHRY DAVIDS

Saturday, May 18, 2024 I 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (hybrid event)
Registration link: https://db.pincsf.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=495

PINC will present International Visiting Scholar M. Fakhry Davids. In the morning, joined by psychoanalyst Francisco Gonzalez, Davids will deliver his paper Bob Dylan and the Art of Aging, highlighting the mature vision of the Nobel prize-winning poet-lyricist. Focusing on the 13-minute title track of Dylan’s album The Tempest, which memorializes the sinking of the Titanic, Davids’s talk, drawing on psychoanalytic perspectives on later stages of psychic development and Klein’s account of paranoid-schizoid and depressive ways of being, will show how the artist’s deep emotional engagement with the subject matter reflects his awareness of his own declining capacities. The afternoon portion of the program will likely center on the current status of Davids's theory of internal racism, famously proposed in his book Internal Racism (2011). 

For questions, contact Eric Essman at epessman@gmail.com