Feb
7
9:30 AM09:30

"A Passion for Ever More" with Dominique Scarfone

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis presents

A Passion For Ever More

Presenter: Dominique Scarfone, MD

Discussant: Adam Blum, PsyD

Moderator: Julie Ruskin, PhD

What happens when desire no longer seeks satisfaction but escalation? When the wish to feel alive veers into the compulsion to overpower?

In his new paper, Dominique Scarfone traces a line from Freud’s drive theory to contemporary crises of violence, addiction, and breakdown, offering a compelling account of what he calls the “sexual drive for power” and illuminating how the very forces that animate our social world also threaten to destroy it.

Joined by discussant Adam Blum, the program turns to what is at stake for psychoanalysis today: how these dynamics shape psychical life and clinical practice, and how we handle the forces that overwhelm, disrupt, and define our work in this extraordinary historical moment.

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Jun
14
10:00 AM10:00

Listening Into Being: An Actor's Invitation (with Robin Weigert)

What do therapists and actors have in common? Both are always listening for something to emerge — a character coming to life, a story taking shape, a feeling taking form. But what happens when we direct this form of listening toward one another? Following  the recent publication of her essay, “Listening Into Being” (in Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2023), Emmy-nominated film and television actress Robin Weigert (Deadwood, Big Little Lies) will join us at SFCP to discuss profound resonances  between the actor’s and the analyst’s practices of listening. Showcasing moments from some of her most compelling performances, we will form a dialogue between our kindred disciplines about the deeply responsive art of listening into being — listening to one another, and finding out who we become.

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