On the latest installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen engage in an frank and open conversation about their experiences with patients who are looking for something the analyst cannot provide. The hosts look at the tension created when the tectonic plates of what institutes define as psychoanalytic work, the fantasies of a patient seeking psychotherapy, and the analyst's limitations collide in psychoanalytic room.

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[01:56] What are people looking at?

[09:49] Unclear expectations

[10:12] Patients who might need a different psychoanalytic approach

[13:36] What makes us feel like some patients are not going to be able to work with psychoanalysis

[16:26] Some shortcomings of training institutions

[19:30] The burden of the dreamed psychoanalysis

Second part of our interview with Dr. Catherine Silver, Professor of Sociology who identifies and practices as a "social relational psychoanalyst" in New York City.

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[02:02] Obstacles encountered in her practice

[07:02] Resistances to the Social in the US psychoanalytic field

[14:28] How her practice changed over time

[25:27] Psychoanalysts as a political voice

[33:14] Conclusion

On the latest installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen interview Dr. Catherine Silver, Professor of Sociology who identifies as a "social relational psychoanalyst." Through their candid dialogue, hosts and guest explore the web of forces - personal and social - that lead a person to become a psychoanalyst, another person to desire being in psychoanalysis, and these two to find each other in the therapy room. We engage in themes of class, race, immigration, and we ponder what would psychoanalytic training look like if it were immersed in the life of communities. In addition, we have an opportunity to hear in what ways the work of Erich Fromm informs the practice of Dr. Silver.

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[0:17] Intro

[04:22] Presentations

[13:51] Identification with the analyst

[17:22] How psychoanalysis is defined differently in different spaces

[21:24] Eric Fromm

[24:40] Including the Social in the training

[29:37] The social as a defense

[31:13] Overlaps btw psychoanalysis and sociology

This month, Edgard Fransico Danielsen and Grégoire Pierre discuss some aspects of how modernity and post modernity affect our work as psychoanalysts.

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[04:16] The loss of transcendence

[09:00] The shift in sublimation and social assignation

[14:46] Excluding the social / excluding the conflict

[17:46] Psychoanalysis as a religion

[24:38] What we do with our finitude

On the 22nd installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, Grégoire Pierre & Edgard Francisco Danielsen engage in conversation about the covid vaccine and the impact on their practices. What was their internal experience when they received the shot: relief, anxiety, shame, guilt? What were their phantasies? They address the various forces that drove them back to their physical offices and to in-person psychoanalysis. What has been the experiences of analysands and analysts seeing each other in person? What about the sense of time and the sense of space? What does wearing or not a mask in the psychoanalytic room mean to the dyad? In what ways are we mourning the pandemic and moving into a new phase?

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[1:45] Vaccination

[10:40] Return to the office

[34:00] All Distant Therapy

[41:26] Differences between the different kind of remote therapy

[49:00] The Phone

[51:19] How Interpretations Differ

[55:16] Bonus

In a new episode of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen, engage in their last discussion of the series on psychoanalysis and the social. In particular, Grégoire and Edgard Francisco share their thoughts on the assumptions and cultural perceptions the members of the dyad - analyst and analysand - may have of each other while listening to each other in languages outside their mother's tongues. In addition, they discuss their ideas on the ubiquitous presence - conscious and unconscious - of the social locations of the patient. Finally, the hosts explore the meaning of fee and the phantasies associated with it depending on the taxation structures in different countries. The hosts end on the idea that psychotherapy is psychoanalysis when it disrupts social assumptions and phantasies.

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[0:00] Intro

[2:00] Language

[4:36] Fees and Culture

[11:00] Symptoms and cultural/group dynamic

[18:35] What we disclose and what we don't

[19:30] General Relativity of human values

[29:00] Conclusion

We invite you to continue the discussion on how the social is part of a psychoanalytic practice. This time, we will address how psychoanalysts bring where they come from in the analysis, what it means to work with people who come from different countries with different knowledge of the analytic process, how we are always in a process of exclusion and inclusion, and how influenced we are by the difficulty of the US society with conflict. Finally, we will have a little chat on the religion and the space of certainty.

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[0:00:00] Intro

[0:02:00] How psychoanalysts bring where they come from in the analysis

[0:06:30] What it means to work with people who come from different countries with different knowledge of the analytic process

[0:10:37] How we are always in a process of exclusion and inclusion

[0:17:00] Difficulty of the US society with conflict

[0:27:50] Religion and the space of certainty

[0:25:22] Conclusion

This is the first of a series of podcasts in which your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen, will explore how to integrate the social in our psychoanalytic practices. We will address the difficulty to integrate the social in some psychoanalytic trainings, what to do when the social meets a patient's issue, can we include the social and still be psychoanalysts, and how taking the social into account is an unspoken or unrecognized necessity in a psychoanalytic work.

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[0:00:00] Intro

[0:04:32] First part

[0:10:20] Second part

[0:16:50] Third part

[0:19:38] Fourth part

[0:24:36] Fifth part

[0:25:22] Conclusion

In this podcast, your hosts will discuss social aspects of the relationship between patients and psychoanalyst. We will address the questions of social conventions, seduction, the place of the analyst as a third, and finally what it is to be a psychoanalyst in one's social life.

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Second part of the interview with Lee Jenkins on race and racism from a psychoanalytic perspective.

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