The Delphi International Psychoanalytic Symposium
Invites you to an online presentation and discussion of
Marilia Aisenstein’s paper
Authoritarianism and Fanaticism
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8TH. AT 1600 H LONDON UK TIME
Presenter: Marilia Aisenstein
Moderator: Elisa Nicolopoulou
I understand authority as a turn of mind or a directive but protective attitude. In psychoanalytic clinical practice, both protagonists in the treatment are subject to rules imposed by the analytic framework. These rules are understandable and freely consented to.
Authoritarianism, on the other hand, concerns the negative valence of authority, and immediately brings to mind a book I read and commented on in 2010.
The title is “Fanaticism in Psychoanalysis, upheavals in Psychoanalytic Societies”. I would say that based on dogmatism, hatred of differences and the will to power, the word “fanaticism” can be replaced by “authoritarianism”.
Based on the thinking of the author, Manuela Utrilla-Roblès, I will propose some ideas about psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Institutions.
Marilia Aisenstein
Marilia Aisenstein’s background is philosophy. She trained as an analyst in Paris. She is a training and supervising analyst in the Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society and in the Paris Society, former President of the Paris Society. She also became an International Distinguished Fellow in the BRAS.
She worked 22 years at the Paris Psychosomatic Institute and was president of the executive committee.
Former representative for Europe at the IPA’s Executive Committee.
She also was the chair of the International New Groups committee and is presently co-chair of the annual French-speaking congress.
She wrote numerous papers and books in French, English, Greek translated in Spanish Turkish and Persian.
Her last book is now published in English under the title: “Desire, Pain and Thought.” » (2023 by Routledge)
Elisa Nicolopoulou is a clinical psychologist, psychopathologist, and psychoanalyst, member of the Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society and of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She is also a member of the “Hellenic Psychoanalytical Space D.W. Winnicott” and of the Society for the Psychoanalytical Study of Adolescence “Enivos”. She has co-authored, with Laura Dethiville, the book Discussing Winnicott and his clinical practice, published in Greek by Armos in 2023.
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