Seminar | Saturday, Feb 28 11:45AM - 1:15PM
Topic: Prelude to Training

Gender, Sex, Sexuality, “Le Sexuel”: Crosscurrents in Psychoanalytic Developmental Theory".

Despite culture wars, misinformation, and social panic around transgender/non-binary adolescents’ gender-affirming healthcare, societal acceptance of the varieties of sexualities has been accelerating, accompanied by change in psychoanalytic understanding of sexuality. Abandoning the catastrophic mid-century trans/homophobic pathologizing, psychoanalytic theory reversed course, adding feminist, gay activist, relational, social, and queer correctives. The inclusion of gender within psychoanalytic theory with attention to gendered identities and self-expression requires a theory of gender development. What is the function of gender? How does gender develop? Is this development internal, biologically based as Freud emphasized about sexuality, or is it psychosocially embedded through family and society? How does gender intersect with Sex and Sexuality? Supplementing Freud’s theorizing psychosexuality as the core of the unconscious, a recent turn to Jean Laplanche’s exploration of the “fundamental anthropological situation”, whereby the parent’s quotidian caretaking of the infant seductively offers unconscious “enigmatic messages” thereby implanting sexuality/gender in the child’s psyche, allows contemporary psychoanalytic child developmental theory to struggle with the multiplicity and complexity of pathways to a sexual, gendered self.
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Event Location

Seminar | Saturday, Feb 28 11:45AM - 1:15PM

About the Event.

Despite culture wars, misinformation, and social panic around transgender/non-binary adolescents’ gender-affirming healthcare, societal acceptance of the varieties of sexualities has been accelerating, accompanied by change in psychoanalytic understanding of sexuality. Abandoning the catastrophic mid-century trans/homophobic pathologizing, psychoanalytic theory reversed course, adding feminist, gay activist, relational, social, and queer correctives. The inclusion of gender within psychoanalytic theory with attention to gendered identities and self-expression requires a theory of gender development. What is the function of gender? How does gender develop? Is this development internal, biologically based as Freud emphasized about sexuality, or is it psychosocially embedded through family and society? How does gender intersect with Sex and Sexuality? Supplementing Freud’s theorizing psychosexuality as the core of the unconscious, a recent turn to Jean Laplanche’s exploration of the “fundamental anthropological situation”, whereby the parent’s quotidian caretaking of the infant seductively offers unconscious “enigmatic messages” thereby implanting sexuality/gender in the child’s psyche, allows contemporary psychoanalytic child developmental theory to struggle with the multiplicity and complexity of pathways to a sexual, gendered self.

About Our Speaker.

Barry Rand, MD

Dr Rand is on the faculty at PANY where he teaches Gender and Sexuality. He is associate chair of the Sub-committee for Education of the Committee on Gender and Sexuality at APSA which organizes educational events for psychoanalytic faculty on pedagogy of Sexuality and Gender.

Learning Objectives.

1. To understand and apply current psychoanalytic theories of sexual development to clinical approaches to a full range of patients and their sexualities.
2. To clarify psychoanalytic concepts and articulate controversies of gender and gender developmental theories

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CME/ CE Statement.

ACCME Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Psychoanalytic Association of New York. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

 

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

Disclosure Statement

The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.


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CME/ CE Credits Available: 1.5
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Citations.

1.Jean Laplanche Ph.D. & Translated bySusanFairfieldgraduate (2007)
Gender, Sex, and the Sexual, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 8:2, 201-219.
2. Saketopoulou, A. (2014). Mourning the Body as Bedrock. JAPA, 62 (5):773-806.
3. Saketopoulou, A. and Pellegrini, A. (2023) "Gender Without Identity".
(a) A Feminine Boy:Trauma as Resource for Self, Theorization. Chap 1:11-76.
(b) Laplanche, J. 92011) Gender, Sex, and the Sexual. English Translation (2011)
Chap 3:100-128.
4. Kulish, N. (2010) Clinical Implications of Contemporary Gender Theory. JAPA. 58:231-258.

How to Prepare.

IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL:

1 Park Avenue, 8th Floor

New York, NY 10016

and via Zoom Videoconference

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