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The Place From Which We Know: a Response to the “Ontological” Turn in Psychoanalysis - Hannah Wallerstein, PhD, FABP (Live)
2024-25 Friday Night Guest Lecture Series
Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture
This presentation will address the recent shift towards was has been termed an “ontological” approach to psychoanalysis (Ogden 2019), in which experiencing and becoming oneself more fully are seen as the goals of treatment, with the generation of knowledge taking a back seat. Through a close reading of Bion and Winnicott it will argue against the dichotomization of knowing and being that is often implicit in this framework. Rather than privileging one over the other, it will propose that both Bion and Winnicott view knowing is inextricably bound up with being, given the object psychoanalysis is attempting to know and to reach. This has consequences for how we work, and helps protect against the idealization of experiencing and other trends than can arise within the “ontological” analysis literature. A case example will be used to illustrate.
Target Audience
______ Introductory ______ Intermediate ___x_ Advanced
Learning Objectives
- Describe Bion’s concept of psychic transformation and Winnicott’s concept of “personalization.”
- Apply Winnicott’s concept of “personalization” to a clinical experience.
- Provide two critiques of trends within the “ontological” analysis literature.
Hannah Wallerstein, PhD, FABP, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Ann Arbor, MI. She serves as faculty at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, adjunct faculty at the Austen Riggs Center, clinical supervisor for the CCNY Doctoral program, and on the editorial boards of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. She has published on gender identity and transgender phenomena, psychosis and historical trauma, the function of hope in clinical work, and the collapse between biology and ontology in psychoanalytic thinking on the body. She received the 2016 Symonds Prize for best previously unpublished paper on gender and/or sexuality and has been recognized for her teaching at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.
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- 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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