San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis presents
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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