What do we speak about when we speak about the body in psychoanalysis?
A webinar hosted by the Iberian Neuropsychoanalysis Association (AINPSA)
4 p.m. (Central European Time – UTC+1)
Online via Zoom
This webinar will be held in Spanish.
Please contact Alicia Golijov for further information and to register:
aliciagolijov@gmail.com
Presenter: Dr García Cingolani (who is based in San Juan, Puerto Rico).
In one of his first essays “On Psychotherapy”, Freud wrote that treatment is done “from the soul”, recognizing that “body and soul” have a reciprocal action. In this sense, we can say that psychoanalytic treatment is done “from the body” as the main scenario of a reciprocal action from one to the other. This raises key questions, including: ‘Which body do we speak about when we speak about the body in psychoanalysis?’; ‘Which is the treatment we offer to the body in psychoanalysis?’; and ‘How should we think about the difference between body and organism in treatment’?
Dr García Cingolani will address these questions by examining them based on: (1) the theoretical review that she undertook for her PhD dissertation titled The interviews of discomfort in the Biopoder’s Era: A particular investigation on endometriosis, which she defended at the University of Puerto Rico in 2011, and (2) her community and private clinical practice experience developed since then in San Juan.
About the AINPSA
The Iberian Neuropsychoanalysis Association (AINPSA) has emerged as the result of a common interest shared by people among psychoanalytical, neuroscientific, and biological backgrounds. Our main goal is to facilitate the study, research and dissemination of Freud’s ideas together with their current developments in neuropsychoanalysis. By holding regular meetings we aim at promoting open dialogue between different disciplines and groups to broaden and deepen our understanding of the body/mind relationship in a dual-aspect monism way. Topics include, but are not limited to, consciousness and free-energy principle, biological underpinnings of the mental, psychosomatology, affective and cognitive neurosciences, etc. We also want to create and develop neuropsychoanalytical projects with practical applications in Health, Arts and Education.