Facilitated by J. Christopher Fowler, PhD & Stuart Weir, PsyD

A foundational premise of psychoanalysis is Freud’s discovery of the unconscious and uncovering the meaning of latent content from dreams, parapraxes, and unintentional actions such as forgetting. This 6-week seminar will explore sources of latent (liminal) data from the analysand, as well as the analyst. We will traverse classical Freudian approaches to liminal data including Freud’s Psychopathology of Everyday Life and Paul Gray’s notion of close process analysis captured in A brief didactic guide to analysis of the ego in conflict. We will then move to modern ideas of paralinguistic communication with a deep dive into John Gedo’s The Languages of Psychoanalysis. Throughout the seminar, participants are encouraged to share clinical material bearing on how we utilize liminal data to discern meaning (whether shared or held as an internal formulation) and how we convey our understanding in ways that are meaningful to the analysand.