This is a hybrid event. Participants may attend in-person at CMPS (Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, 16 W 10th St, New York, NY, 10011) or via Zoom.

A Fanonian Perspective on the Analyst’s Experience of Skin Color Difference:
One of the Last Frontiers within Multicultural Discourse

Part of BGSP’s Fall 2024 | Spring 2025 Speaker Series: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Race, Racism and Culture, co-hosted by BGSP’s Department of Continuing Education and CMPS (Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies)

For Fanon, the socio-cultural influences on the unconscious are integral to psychic formation and influence on all aspects of every individual’s experience of themselves in their world. This presentation will explore the socio-political and economic influences on the ‘sociogeny’ of the encounters that analysts and analysands bring into the treatment room. An effort will be made to highlight and explore Fanon’s contribution to an expansion of how we understand unconscious communications between the analyst and the patient. Emphasis will be on the culturally informed associations and projections that both participants bring to the work, with an understanding of Fanon’s notion of ‘phobogenicity,’ ‘epidermatogy,’ ‘internality,’ and the ‘Gaze,’ as contemporary psychoanalytic constructs, along with an emphasis on how culture informs each individual’s perceptions of ‘Others’ in their world.

Presenter

Annie Lee Jones, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist at the Department of Veterans Affairs Community Living Center in New York, and a psychoanalyst in private practice in Queens, New York. She is faculty and past co-chair of the ‘Ethnicity, Race, Culture, Class, and Language Committee’ at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she completed her psychoanalytic training. She is also a faculty member at Adelphi University; The Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies; Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies; and the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity.  She is also a Co-Chair of the Arts and Society Committee, Fellow, Supervisor and training Analyst at (IPTAR) the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research where she is a member of the Board. She has also taught courses at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City.

Dr. Jones is a founding member of ‘Black Psychoanalysts Speak.’ She is a graduate of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Her research interests include the study of classical psychoanalytic texts to explore the origin of constructs related to the unconscious; the intrapsychic lives of black American men and women; the economics of racialized internal processes, particularly the racialized third in sociopolitical encounters and the clinical writings of Fanon. Currently, she is working on a fictionalized history of her paternal grandmother who was born into and later freed from chattel slavery in the United States. 

Discussant

The Discussant for this event is TBA.

OBJECTIVES

The participant will be able to:

• Articulate the meanings of the key Fanonian construct of ‘sociogeny.’
• Provide examples of how skin color differences affect communication between people in treatment and everyday encounters.
• Understand how culture operates in our perception of others. 

(2 CEUs / Clock Hours)

Students | FREE
BGSP/CMPS Community Members | $25
General Admission | $40

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The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis is accredited by the New England Commission on Higher Education.

Direct inquiries may be made regarding the accreditation status by NECHE to the administrative staff of the institution. Individuals may also contact: New England Commission on Higher Education, 3 Burlington Woods Drive, Ste 100, Burlington, MA 01803-4514, at (781) 425-7785 or email: info@neche.org