Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia

This event addresses: International Scholar Forum.

Dr. Leopold Nosek, Sao Paulo, Brazil, will discuss his ideas about how analysts participate in an analysis with a particular theoretical ensemble, an ethical conception, and an aesthetic development. He will explore how the analyst’s entire being is mobilized by the analytic encounter and how this initiates a never-ending reflection that is permanently renewed, even in its most secure convictions. Dr. Nosek intends to present a brief moment in his trajectory as an analyst in order to demonstrate his conceptualization of the analyst’s transformation. He will explain his belief that “treating such moments as merely spontaneous, does not remove them from the field and creates the potential emergence of prejudiced convictions…[and he will address his ideas about how] “the unconscious, the object of our practice, may only be presented metaphorically, and this always requires the renewal of the constructions intended to account for its presence…we cannot use old metaphors for new loves, just as we cannot send a new bunch of flowers with the same card.”