Fridays @CCP Lecture Series: Gender and Its Discontents (Patricia Gherovici, PhD)

Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

Patricia Gherovici, PhD

(New York, NY)

Gender and Its Discontents

Friday May 8, 2026

7-9pm (CST)

Join us for drinks and light appetizers before the lecture!

Reception: 6:30 - 7:00 PM (CST)

Lecture begins at 7 :00 PM(CST)

We look forward to welcoming you there, whether in person or virtually via Zoom.

About the presentation:  This lecture interrogates the moment when gender ceases to be just gender:
– Gender is not gender when it becomes sex. – Gender is not gender when it becomes race—here, Afropessimist thought opens a debate between Frantz Fanon, Jacques Lacan, and Octave Mannoni. – Gender is not gender when shaped by class and access to jobs. We will explore how poverty in the barrio intersects with gendered experience, transforming what gender means when racialized communities face deep economic precarity and social exclusion. 

In tracing these limits, this lecture uses clinical vignettes to invite to a psychoanalytic rethinking of gender at the intersection of mortality, race, class, and desire—not as identity, but as a threshold for subjectivity.

Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and Sigourney Award recipient. Single-authored books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Gradiva Award and Boyer Prize),  Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference . With Chris Christian: Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious  (Gradiva Award and American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize); with Manya Steinkoler: Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can't  ;  Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy, and Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans* (Gradiva Award).

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to analyze how gender intersects with sex, race, and class, and explain how these intersections reshape understandings of gender beyond its traditional definition.

2. Participants will be able to interpret clinical vignettes through a psychoanalytic lens to understand gender as a threshold for subjectivity rather than fixed identity.

This presentation is for all levels of professional experience. 

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 May 7,  2026 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Gherovici, P. (2021). The lost souls of the barrio: Lacanian psychoanalysis in the ghetto. In S. George & D. Hook (Eds.), Lacan and race: Racism, identity and psychoanalytic theory (pp. 183–204). New York, NY: Routledge.

Gherovici, P. (2022). Yearning to be: Authenticity and truth in clinical psychoanalytic practice. In J. Fayaerts & P. Beer (Eds.), The truths of psychoanalysis (pp. 87–96). Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press.

Gherovici, P. (2022). Hate up to my couch: Psychoanalysis, community, poverty and the role of hatred. Psychoanalysis and History, 24(3), 269–290. https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.20

Gherovici, P. (2023). The monsters within and the monsters without: Gender dissidents and the future of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 20(1), 65–81.

Gherovici, P. (2025). Hate your neighbor as you hate yourself: How to think psychoanalytically about hate, racism, and exclusion. In N. Bou Ali & S. Singh (Eds.), Extimacy. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Zak Mucha, LCSW, Alan Levy, PhD,  Toula Kourliouros Kalven.

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.