XXII International Forum of Psychoanalysis

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19 to 22 October 2022

Psychoanalytic theories and techniques:
dialogue, difficulties and future.
60th anniversary of the IFPS.

Organized by the Centro Psicoanalítico de Madrid

Program

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The International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies is an organization that was created in 1962 in order to intensify scientific and personal contacts, as well as the exchange of opinions between psychoanalytic societies; and also with the purpose of promoting a free discussion of psychoanalytic theory and practice through joint publications, and sharing experiences and criteria on professional training.


50th anniversary

The Centro Psicoanalítico de Madrid is a non-profit scientific association, whose sphere of influence extends throughout Spain. Since its foundation, in 1971, it has been conceived with a triple function: as an association of professionals, as a clinical center with psychoanalytic assistance and as a training center in psychoanalysis. The Centro Psicoanalítico de Madrid identifies itself with an open and integrating psychoanalytic orientation, without strictly ascribing to any particular school.

About the IFPS - Forum 2022

Psychoanalysis has evolved over more than 100 years to form a complex discipline, which includes very different proposals and leads to heterogeneous theoretical and clinical approaches. We could say that we are united by Freud's work, the starting point for our development, and an intense attention to the functioning of the unconscious and transference. It is certainly possible and necessary to deepen our knowledge of the different points of view, especially in a Federation as diverse as ours.

Sharing different visions can lead us to know and use concepts that enrich our clinical and theoretical work. It is not easy, but it is certainly necessary. What we do in this respect will have a powerful influence on the future of our work. Psychoanalysis remains today a profoundly necessary theory and practice for understanding the inner world of people and for dealing with human suffering. We hope that the Madrid meeting can be a further step along this difficult and exciting path.

Speakers

Wednesday 19

Juliet Mitchell

Juliet Mitchell

Jesus College, Cambridge University

From a critical Marxism, she considers that the life of women is influenced by the economic production system, reproductive modalities, sexuality and the dynamics of socialization with children. She defends that socialism and feminism developed in parallel.

Thursday 20

Alejandro Avila Espada

Alejandro Ávila

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Professor of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment. Founder of the IARPP, the Spanish Section of the International Association for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and of the Relational Psychotherapy Institute.

Friday 21

Darian Leader

Darian Leader

Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research

Darian Leader's ideas are more consistent, interesting, more humane and persuasive than the profit coercion of the madness industry. Instead of crude reasoning that leads to misleading or excessive treatment, he offers enlightenment and insight.

Saturday 22

Jay Greenberg

Jay Greenberg

William Alanson White Institute, NY

He was one of the main originators of relational psychoanalysis, a new development in psychoanalysis which is in part a further development of interpersonal psychoanalysis and object relations theory. But he is now less closely identified with it.

They have said...

"Prompted by the violent hostility of American feminism to Freud, I argued that his theory of the unconscious mind was essential for the women’s struggle—it greatly helped account for the persistence of our world-historical oppression. [...] I have returned to analyzing the concept of oppression with an investigation of Freud’s female Oedipus complex. Freud’s work can be critiqued and developed, but not diminished or rendered passé. The practice of Bourgeois’s extraordinary intelligence engaged with Freud’s extraordinary living intelligence. Her clinical battles with this complex are testimony of this idea; her art inherits her success."

Juliet Mitchell
Louise Bourgeois and Sigmund Freud: Passage Dangereux, The girl in psychoanalysis and art



"The history of psychoanalytivc practice is seen as a prelude to the cutting edge of a clinic of jouissance, yet the more we scrutinise this, the more we see that the term has settled into a lazy and descriptive use.."

Darian Leader
Jouissance: Sexuality, suffering and satisfaction

"Psychoanalysis, now well into its second century… faces a challenge that comes with maturity... If we are to remain vital and generative (following Erikson 1950), if we are to avoid the kind of stagnation that comes with complacency, we must take hard looks both at who we are and at how we have become who we are."

Jay Greenberg
Psychoanalytic Quarterly 88:455-460



"We are our relational matrix, our relational history. We are agents and results of it. The relational matrix is not a list of names and a sketch or diagram of determining influences. It is the subjectivity expressed in one's own biography."

Alejandro Ávila Espada

Psychoanalytic theories and techniques: dialogue, difficulties and future.
60th anniversary of the IFPS.

Program

For help, send an email to info@ifps-forum2022.com