Penumbr(a)cast - The Other Scene

In this episode Heidi Arsenault and Daniel Wilson discuss ARIA, their clinical practice through music and play with nonspeaking children and teens from around the world in Montreal, as a way of exploring a concept of the child that takes subjective experience and its search for an unprecedented space-time into account. The notion of creativity is considered from the perspective of a subjective experience that seeks expression and can be accompanied and sustained rather than limited or interpr...

In this episode of the New Psychoanalytic Spaces sub-series, Sophie Mendelsohn responds to questions about the work of the Collectif de Pantin she founded in 2018 and continues to operate in Pantin, a diverse Paris suburb, with a focus on interrogating race in the analytic experience and on observing the effects of taking race, as well as coloniality and postcoloniality, into account in clinical and social contexts. Sophie Mendelsohn reflects on problems of articulating clinical experience to...

In this episode, Fabrice Bourlez, who teaches aesthetics (ENSBA) and practices psychoanalysis in Paris, speaks about his exploration of concepts of tact and elasticity in his practice, and in his reading of Freud, Ferenczi, and Lacan, as well as of Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, and queer theory. The author of Pulsions pasoliniennes (Pasolinean Drives) and of Queer psychanalyse: clinique mineure et déconstructions du genre (Queer Psychoanalysis: Minor Clinic and Deconstructions of G...

In this episode, Dr. Stephen Sternbach (Harvard Medical School; Cambridge Health Alliance; member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and of the École freudienne du Québec) speaks of his journey into psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and also literature as a space to explore the encounter with the Real. Sternbach discusses the changing relationship to psychoanalysis in psychiatric education and practice over the past decades in the United States. He touches on the concept of the defect in language...

This episode features an interview with Anne Emmanuelle Berger, Professor Emerita of the Centre d'études féminines et de genre at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-St. Denis, founder of the CNRS research lab for Gender and Sexuality Studies LEGS, and affiliated Romance Studies Professor at Cornell University. Berger shares her thoughts on the status and implications of reading and writing, the links between deconstruction and psychoanalysis, and their current political relevance and challen...

This interview with Jean-Michel Rabaté invites us to explore connections between psychoanalysis and multiple fascinating instances of modernism (from Rimbaud to Jarry to Proust and Gide to Kafka) and avant-garde art (surrealism and dadaism). The political and analytic power of laughter, horror, irreverence, and scandal come to the foreground in discussions about the affective dimension of art-viewing and reading literature. Rabaté thinks about the death drive in relation to writing, discusses...

This special episode of Penumbr(a)cast - The Other Scene features a conversation with Dr. Patricia Noboa Ortega, cofounder of the Clínica Legal Psicologica in Puerto Rico, a clinic that provides legal and communal support to marginalized communities deeply affected by hurricane María in 2017, as well as individual psychoanalytic listening for members of these communities. The interview considers what enables the clinic to bring to these sites elements from psychoanalysis after Lacan, an...

This episode starts a series of Penumbr(a)cast - The Other Scene devoted to exploring the effects of art and literature on a subject. The interview with Tim Dean, explores his work as a thinker and writer, his thoughts on the critic Leo Bersani, and his response to the poem Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Special thanks to Luke Heister and Omar Brown for their editorial assistance with this episode.

This episode (in two parts) discusses a contemporary use of the term castration, introduced by Freud. Cantin distinguishes between imaginary, symbolic, and real castration in relation to different moments of the human individual life and to the psychoanalytic cure, highlighting the relevance of castration as a work that liberates subjects from the cultural montage of sexuality that hijacks unconscious desire. Part 2 specifically explores the experiences and difficulties women face with regard...

Second half of the conversation with Bret Fimiani on psychosis in the psychoanalytic clinic. Find Bret Fimiani’s work here: Psychosis and Extreme States (2021) (Palgrave Lacan Series) References mentioned in this episode: The Schreber Case — Freud Hearing Voices Network History Beyond Trauma — Francoise Davoine & Jean-Max Gaudillere Follow the Center for Psychoanalysis and Culture on Facebook Read Penumbr(a), a new journal of psychoanalysis and modernity: penumbrajou...

This episode discusses the concept of the unconscious as the result of an experience under transference, understood in terms of the effects of the analyst's own experience of undergoing analysis. The episode also discusses what is at stake in feminine jouissance, non-neurotic psychic structures, the beautiful, and it concludes with a reflection on time.

This episode discusses the concept of structure in the psychoanalytic clinic, which enables an understanding of what is specifically at stake in the course of an analysis, in its distinction from structuralist theory, a DSM-based diagnosis, and psychotherapy. Find Shanna Carlson’s work here: Sex for Structuralists: The Non-Oedipal Logics of Femininity and Psychosis (Palgrave McMillan, 2018) “Transgender Subjectivity and the Logic of Sexual Difference” - differences (2010) “In defense o...

In this episode Tracy McNulty discusses the Lacanian conception of the act and the related operation of the pass that he introduced in his school of psychoanalysis in 1967 and that remains a crucial procedure at the end of an analysis and also in a school of analysis. Find Tracy McNulty’s work here: Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life (Columbia University Press, 2014) The Hostess: Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity(University of Minnesota Pres...