Let’s shake up psychoanalysis by queering the way we think and feel—come join the convo in person!

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This event is the first in a series of Psychoanalytic Conversations & Discussions.

Can We Queer Our Thinking of Psychoanalysis?

Only fifteen years ago I attended a conference on homosexuality in

psychotherapy, where arguments were still being made to fit gay experience

into Freud's Oedipus complex. Psychoanalytic trainings had only recently

stopped treating the admission of queer people as a problem — having long

held that queerness itself was a neurosis, one that could not be colluded with.

Today, psychoanalysis can still project heteronormative assumptions — the

objectification of trans and intersex experience being one example. Drawing

on my own experience, on Freud's idea of the polymorphously perverse infant, and on his views

on homosexuality, I'd like to open a conversation between us on queering psychotherapy.

— Lakis Georghiou

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