by Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California

RACIAL TRAUMA IN THE AFTERLIFE OF THE MIDDLE PASSAGE: FROM PLANTATION TO PROVISION GROUND

Saturday, April 11th | 9:00am – 2:30pm

In-person at PINC
530 Bush Street, 7th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
and on Zoom

In this talk, International Visiting Scholar Gail Lewis, Ph.D., in discussion with Jyoti Rao, L.M.F.T., addresses the issue of racial trauma through the register of two Black Feminist approaches to subject formation, and, briefly, the concept of Black Rage as theorized by Beverly J. Stout. The two Black Feminist approaches are intersectionality, and what Gail Lewis calls ‘Black Feminism Otherwise’ (sometimes called ‘black study’). Following Stout, Lewis suggests that their respective conceptualizations of the making of subjects and subjectivities provide a key resource for clinical work. She hopes to show this through reference to a single case of a black man with whom she worked psychodynamically.

Gail Lewis, Ph.D., (born 1951) is a British writer, psychotherapist, researcher, and activist. She is visiting senior fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics, and Reader Emerita of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, London. She trained as a psychodynamic psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic.

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