Sundays @ CCP Lecture Series
Gohar Homayounpour, Ph.D
(Teheran, Iran)
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Resurrecting the erotic: Towards an ethics of life through “the” subversive feminist revolt of our times in Iran.
12-2pm (CST): ZOOM Presentation & Discussion
NO RECORDING
About the presentation: In this talk, Gohar Homayounpour will attempt to compose a triptych overview of her three texts written following the radical feminine uprising in Iran since September 16th, 2022. Her wish is to elaborate the resurrection of the erotic, a resurrection which has been at the very core of this subversive feminist revolt, of a birth of a new feminine epic hero, towards an ethics of life, and its conditions.
"The Birth of a New Female Epic Hero"
"A Revolt Against the Death Penalty"
"Abracadabra: on the poisoning of schoolgirls in Iran"
“I believe that what we are observing in Iran is one of the most significant and subversive feminist movements of our times, one which I would go as far as to call a fourth wave feminism. We are observing the return of the repressed female body that refuses to be covered symbolically, and that says: look at me, in my ordinariness, in my hunger for an ethics of woman, life, and freedom.”
Dr. Gohar Homayounpour is a psychoanalyst and award winning author. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. She is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst of the Freudian Group of Tehran, of which she is also founder and past president. She is a member of the scientific board at the Freud Museum in Vienna, and of the IPA group Geographies of Psychoanalysis. Her first book, Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran (2012, MIT) won the Gradiva award and has been translated into many languages. Her latest book is titled Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning (2022, Routledge).
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to provide one example of current event(s) and describe their impact on the state of mind of the contemporary Iranian woman.
Participants will be able to provide one example of how a therapist may be impacted by events and/or trauma in their social environment, and how this can both affect and inform their clinical work.
This is an Intermediate Level Presentation
Fees
CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.
Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.
New Fellows / Ongoing: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.
Non-CCP members, single admission: $50
Continuing Education
This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).
Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by January 11, 2025 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org
References/Suggested Readings
Homayounpour, G. (2012). Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran. The MIT Press.
Homayounpour, G. (2022). Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning. Routledge.
Lear, J. (2006). Radical Hope, Ethics in the face of cultural devastation. Harvard University Press.
Butler, J. (2020). The Force of non-violence: An Ethico-political Bind. Verso.
Preta, L. (2015). Geographies of Psychoanalysis: Encounters Between Cultures in Tehran. Mimesis International.
Presented by
The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW
The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.