by San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

I AM WALKING IN THE WOODS IN THE POURING RAIN: A CONSIDERATION OF INDISPENSABLE OBJECTS

The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis presents the Haskell Norman Prize for Excellence in Psychoanalysis: I Am Walking in the Woods in the Pouring Rain: A Consideration of Indispensable Objects

Presenter: Donald B. Moss, M.D.
Moderator: Charles P. Fisher, M.D.
Monday, May 10 2021
7.30 pm - 9.30 pm

The Haskell Norman Prize for Excellence in Psychoanalysis this year will be awarded to Donald B. Moss, M.D., of New York. His talk will be an exciting and important presentation about Climate Change denial. Psychoanalytic interpretation has long focused on the object relation as a carrier of meaning. By way of the relation with the manifest object, the one in front of us, we try to sense the presence of covert objects and their covert relations. Via interpretation, we can seek to illuminate the impact of those covert objects and covert relations. Thought of that way, the manifest object is functionally dispensable, more a vector or container of meanings than meaningful in itself. As such, the object in front of us seems both contingent and variable. In this presentation, I mean to think about the category of indispensable objects. Surrounded as we are by current and threatened catastrophes -- by the undeniable presence of limits, shortages, and scarcities -- the time may have passed when we could afford the luxury of treating the objects of our clinical and social worlds as dispensable. Please click here to register for this free event.