Subjectivity in Radical Ethics - Donna Orange, PhD, PsyD (Recorded)
Radical ethics, a philosophical position recognizing the priority of the other over the ego, specifically concerns the other’s suffering. It refuses to see the other as an instance of a category or concept, and therefor holds immense significance for workers in any mental health profession. But it can seem to deny, or minimize the needs of these workers, or of any individual’s needs in the face of the other’s suffering, and thus comes up against undeniable human limitations. It also raises the psychoanalytic problem of masochism. A revised and clearer idea of subjectivity, or of selfhood, can help us to see how we become ourselves in our very pre-existing responsibility for others, even when we come up against our limits.
Target Audience
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Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to explain the meaning of "radical ethics".
- Participants will be able to apply the idea of radical ethics to the climate emergency.
- Participations will be able to explain responsibility as a one -way relationship.
Educated in philosophy, clinical psychology and psychoanalysis, Donna Orange, PhD, PsyD, taught at NYU Postdoc (New York); IPSS (Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York); and in private study groups. She also offered clinical consultation/supervision in these institutes and beyond. Her books include: Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies (2010, Routledge), The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice (2011, Routledge), Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis, and Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics (2016, Routledge), and most recently, Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear (2020, Routledge). She was also the 2021 Visiting Professor of Phenomenology at Duquesne University.
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