Fridays @CCP Lecture Series
Howard Levine MD
(Brookline, MA)
Friday, March 7, 2025
Minding the Gap
7-9pm (CST)
Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL
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Zoom
About the Presentation: This paper addresses the question of what we can and cannot come to know about psychic reality and psychic functioning and about the opportunities and limits of language and thought with particular reference to Freud’s theory of representation, unrepresented states and the psychoanalytic clinical situation. Drawing upon the work of authors such as Freud, Bion, Winnicott and Green, it attempts to widen the understanding and reach of psychoanalytic theory beyond neurosis and neurotic psychic organizations and to explore the transformational dimension of psychoanalytic treatment in the hopes of more successfully expanding the clinical application of the psychoanalytic model to borderline, narcissistic and other primitive character structures. In discussing the processes through which sense and meaning are assigned to concrete facts, - e.g., Bion’s description of daytime dreaming, alpha function and the communicative aspect of projective identification - it addresses unrepresented (non-ideational) psychic states and describes the role of the work of construction and the creativity of normative psychic regulatory functioning in normative psychic development and the analytic situation.
Howard B. Levine,is a member of APSA, PINE, the Contemporary Freudian Society and Pulsion, on the faculty of NYU Post-Doc’s Contemporary Freudian Track, on the Editorial Board of the IJP and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, editor-in-chief of the Routledge Wilfred Bion Studies Book Series and in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the author of Transformations de l’Irreprésentable (Ithaque 2019) and Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry (Routledge 2022) and editor of The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro (Routledge 2022), The Freudian Matrix of Andre Green. Towards A Psychoanalysis For The 21st Century by André Green (Routledge/IPA 2023) and Andre Green’s On The Destruction and Death Drives (Phoenix/Karnac 2023). His co-edited books include Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning (Karnac 2013); On Freud’s Screen Memories (Karnac 2014); The Wilfred Bion Tradition (Karnac 2016); Bion in Brazil. (Karnac 2017); The Clinical Thinking of W.R. Bion in Brazil (Routledge 2024); Andre Green Revisited: Representation and the Work of the Negative (Karnac 2018); Covidian Life (2021 Phoenix); Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited: A New Look at Bleger’s Classical Work (Routledge/IPA, 2022); and Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: Explorations in the Emergence of Self (Phoenix 2023).
Learning Objectives
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Participants will be able tounderstand and apply the two-track model of psychoanalysis to contemporary clinical practice.
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Participants will be able to understand and apply the implications of Freud’s (1937)the implications of Freud’s (1937) paper on Constructions in Psychoanalysis to contemporary psychoanalytic clinical practice.
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Participants will be able to understand and apply Winnicott’s (1974) model of fear of breakdown to their current clinical practice.
This is an Intermediate to advanced level presentation.
Fees
CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.
Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.
New / Ongoing Fellows: 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 March 6, 2025 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org
References/Suggested Readings
Green, A. (1998). The primordial mind and the work of the negative. IJPA 79: 649-665.
Levine, H.B. (2010). Creating analysts, creating analytic patients. IJPA 91:1385-1404.
Levine, H.B. (2011). Construction then and now.
In: On Freud’s “Constructions in Analysis.” Edited by S. Lewkowicz, T. Bokanowski with G. Pragier. London: Karnac, pp. 87-100.
Levine, H.B. (2012). The colourless canvas: Representation, therapeutic action and the creation of mind. IJPA 93: 607-629.
Winnicott, D.W. (1974). Fear of breakdown. IRPA 1:103-107.
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.