LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE NEWSLETTER FALL COURSE at BOSTON GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Psychoanalysis, Cinema, & Professional Practice BEGINS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 6:008:00 p.m. PSYCHOANALYSIS, CINEMA & PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE: IN TREATMENT AS IMAGINARY SIGNIFIER Siamak Movahedi, Ph.D., Director, Program on Psychoanalysis and Culture This course revolves around the interface of psychoanalysis and media. We compare the cinematic representation of psychoanalysis with current practice. We begin the course with the psychoanalysis of film scripts, textual systems, and perceiving subjects. We have borrowed the expression Imaginary Signifier from Christian Metz's book (Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Imaginary Signifier) in order to examine the unconscious fantasies that spectators bring to their perception of film images. We will study controversies surrounding issues of therapeutic boundaries, analytic parameters, and practices of self disclosure by the analyst. This will prepare us for watching segments of the HBO TV series IN TREATMENT as we offer interpretations of selected sequences of the show. Visits from prominent Boston psychoanalysts will be part of the course. This course may be taken by matriculating or non-matriculating students for credit, or as a continuing education course. For information, contact Dr. Movahedi at movahedis@bgsp.edu or siamak.movahedi@umb.edu For information on other Psychoanalysis & Culture Courses Offered at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, click here. http://www.psych-culture.com/docs/Psychoanalysis_and_Culture_at_BGSP.pdf To view the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis Schedule for Fall 2008 Schedule, please click here. http://www.bgsp.edu/pdf/Fall 2008 Class Week Schedules.pdf For information on the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, please click here: http://www.bgsp.edu/index.html For an overview of the PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CULTURE PROGRAM at BGSP, please click here. http://www.bgsp.edu/pdf/PsyaCulture Program Review.pdf For additional information, please Contact: Siamak Movahedi, Ph.D., Program Director Email: psychculture@bgsp.edu Phone: 617-277-3915 The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis Program in Psychoanalysis and Culture The Masters and Doctor of Psychoanalysis (Psya.D.) programs in Psychoanalysis & Culture offers students a cutting edge curriculum and prepares them through interdisciplinary study for scholarly research, teaching and professional practice. While social scientists and scholars in humanities and cultural studies are becoming increasingly interested in the psychoanalysis of culture and in the cultural analysis of psychoanalysis, very few institutions of higher education provide an arena for such interdisciplinary undertaking. This program, the first of its kind in the United States, has emerged to fill the gap in the academy for such critical pursuits. Its distinct mission is to promote systematic dialogue between psychoanalysis, critical social theory, and cultural analysis. The program includes a concentration in PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SOCIAL THEORY and in THE STUDY OF VIOLENCE.