Gavriel Reisner, PhD, LP

Moderator:
Alice Entin, LCSW

Sunday, March 19, 2023
5pm – 7pm

Live Online via Zoom: Workshop
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Friday, March 17, at 1pm

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FRIDAY, MARCH 17

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In his nuanced discussion of “The Uncanny” Freud’s strongest example of Das Unheimliche is the secret body of woman, man’s estranged home. That desired/feared source and goal goes back to Oedipal longing. Love-relationships are, therefore, often based on two derivatives of Oedipal longing: The Deep Woman (return to original connection) and The Modeled Woman (return to original passion). Alfred Hitchcock, always Freudian, illustrates these two kinds of love-objects through Midge (as Deep Woman) and Madeline (as Modeled Woman) in his much-admired masterpiece, Vertigo.

Learning Objectives: After attending this presentation, participants will be able to
– Identify the female gaze as having a vitalizing or castrating effect on men who are far more vulnerable than feminist theory, with its emphasis on the objectifying “male gaze,” acknowledges.
– Discuss how the whorl in the bun in Carlotta Valdez’s seductive hair style represents the hidden female body, the whirling circle at the center of the film’s cinematic image-making.
– Describe how to untangle the intricate web of truth and fiction that weaves together in the film’s complicated narrative presentation.

Bio: Gavriel Reisner, PhD, LP Graduate, NPAP (2019). Past Lecturer in English at The Hebrew University and Lecturer in English and Visiting Senior Lecturer in Multidisciplinary Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has authored books, articles, chapters in compilations, and reviews on literature and, more recently, on literature-and-psychoanalysis. Reisner’s present work-in-progress is Suffering a Sea-Change: Going from Ghosts to Ancestors in Narrative. The lead essay in the projected volume, “On Ghosted and Ancestral Selves in Hamlet: Loewald’s ‘Present Life’ and Winnicott’s ‘Potential Space’ in Shakespeare’s Play” won the Peter Loewenberg (CORST) Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Society in 2015. In 2019 a revised version of this article received the JAPA-New Author’s Prize. He is in private practice near Lincoln Center in Manhattan.

Open to:
NPAP Members I $25
Other Professionals I $40
Other Candidates/Students I $15
Contribution I Strongly Encouraged

2 CE contact hours will be granted to participants with documented attendance and complete evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion, a Certificate of Attendance will be emailed to all participants.

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