Moderator: Alice Entin, LCSW

Sunday, November 19, 2023
5pm – 7pm

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

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17

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This presentation takes seriously and psychoanalytically what many have diagnosed as a key dynamic in our age of the Anthropocene, namely narcissism. Because of the powerful paradigm shift and transformations his thinking inaugurated around narcissism, the presenter turns to Heinz Kohut and those intersubjective Self psychologists who developed his ideas. By expanding Kohut’s theories of selfobject ties to include a tie to the more-than-human, the presenter describes new self states such as an archaic self that craves safety in response to precarity, and a more stable self that inhabits a livable, generative permeability. These explorations may contribute to our ability to understand, explain, and ultimately act on the disproportionate suffering some endure and some inflict on each other and the planet in the Anthropocene.

Learning Objectives: After attending this presentation, participants will be able to
– Describe what a newly postulated selfojbect tie to the more-than-human is and how it expands upon Kohut’s theories.
– Discuss how universal as well as particular states of human precarity can lead to a permeable sense of self or a reactive, protective overinvestment in impermeability.
– Identify how psychoanalytic theory and practice can be usefully retrofitted for the Anthropocene and our climate catastrophe.

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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