Perversion as an Act (on demand - student)
Title:
Perversion as Act, Gaze and Structure: A Critical Introduction to a Lacanian Conceptualization
Speaker:
Dr.
Derek Hook, PhD
Format:
On Demand
Credit:
3 CEUs approved for Psychologists, Social Workers, LPCs/LMFTs and LADCs
Cost:
$100 for Non-Members
$80 for Members
$20 for *Students
*Full-Time Undergraduate, Graduate, Doctoral students, and LMFT, LADC, LPC, Social Work, Psychology, and Psychoanalytic licensure/certification candidates
Description:
This talk will introduce the Lacanian conceptualization of perversion. We begin by examining what is arguably Lacan’s most useful formulation in respect of perversion, namely, that the perverse subject makes themselves the object-instrument of the Other’s jouissance. Each of these related Lacanian concepts (subject-as-object, the ‘big’ Other, jouissance) deserves attention and clarification, and to this end we will consider two short clinical vignettes deriving from psychoanalytic work in a prison context. Each Lacanian concept is, in turn, related to Freud’s remarks on perversion in his Three Essays on Sexuality. We then turn our attention to the question of the disavowal – thought by many Lacanians to be the structural and defining defense of perversion – before turning to question the viability, today, of the assertion that perversion exists as a discrete diagnostic structure.Learning objectives:
- Understand how Lacanian formulations of perversion relate to Freud's assertions regarding perverse sexuality in his Three Essays on Sexuality
- Apply notions such as jouissance the 'Big Other' and subject as object-instrument in the clinical domain
- Identify different understanding of 'disavowal' and debate the idea that disavowal is a structural and defining defense of perversion
Speaker’s bio:
Derek Hook is a Professor and Clinical Supervisor in Psychology at Duquesne University. He began his analytical training in London, at the Center for Freudian Analysis and Research. He is the author of 'Six Moments in Lacan' (2017), 'A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial' (2011) and '(Post)apartheid Conditions' (2013). Along with Calum Neill, he co-edits the Palgrave Lacan Series, and along with Stijn Vanheule and Calum Neill he co-edits the landmark 'Reading Lacan's Ecrits' book series. In addition, he is also the co-editor of Lacan and Race (with Sheldon George). He maintains a YouTube channel including many lectures on Lacanian psychoanalysis.