Thanks to everyone who came out for Owen’s presentation last night! It was fantastic with a wonderful discussion at the end. Here is the recording!
Next up, I’ll see you on Saturday, April 18th for the next installment of my Introduction to Psychoanalysis course. In the meantime, you may catch up on previous classes and events HERE.
Enjoy!
About this event:
This talk offers a psychoanalytic view of unconscious generational transmission - how an experience in one generation is transmitted to a later generation, how it is manifested in that generation, and the effects that this transmission produces. Models of trauma have tended to dominate models of transmission, so that transmission is often relegated to being an epiphenomenon of trauma. This presentation will argue the opposite: that transmission should be considered the primary and central phenomenon. It will propose that the problem of generational transmission is the origin story of psychoanalysis. It is no accident that one of its founding myths - that of Oedipus - is itself a story about unconscious generational transmission. A Lacanian model of transmission without trauma will be proposed, with the signifier - the primary organising element of the unconscious - as the vehicle for this transmission. Through clinical examples we will look at how an individual’s efforts to establish a ‘Family Line’, a construction which renders sensical the subject’s place in a generational lineage, are determinative of generational transmission as an unconscious process.
Owen Hewitson is a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is a member of the College of Psychoanalysts, the Guild of Psychotherapists, and runs LacanOnline.com. His PhD in psychoanalysis was on the subject of unconscious generational transmission, a topic which remains one of his major research interests, alongside his clinical work.
You may hear Owen on Rendering Unconscious Podcast here:
RU378: OWEN HEWITSON ON LACAN ONLINE, PSYCHOANALYSIS AS A CRAFT & READING LACAN LIKE POETRY
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