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Come join us in a reading of Dolto's case of Dominique to celebrate its republishing by Divided Publishing.
Ticket cost includes entrance and an advanced copy of Dominique at a special price for the occasion.
Participants who reserve a ticket by October 6th will receive a copy at their address (US only), or may collect it on the night of the event. Please indicate preference when booking.
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While the child psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto stands alongside Jacques Lacan as a leading light of the Other French School, she has been little translated and remains curiously unknown in the English-speaking world. First published in 1971, Dominique: The Case of an Adolescent is frank and close to the clinical experience, rivaling Freud’s own case studies in terms of specificity, universality, and quality of writing. A masterpiece of the genre, it is at once a granular psychological portrait of a troubled adolescent and his familial inheritance, and a historical case study of French society in the 1960s. Through her writing, Dolto shows us the possibility for psychoanalytic care and the clarity that can be reached with a child who, at first, appears to make very little sense to everyone around him.
To celebrate and contextualize the republication of Dominique, Michael Ryzner-Basiewicz, Michael Ferrara, Patricia Gherovici, Loryn Hatch, Matt Johnson, Gabrielle Jensen, and Jamieson Webster will introduce the text and lead attendees in a reading of the case. The discussion will emphasize the ongoing clinical relevance of Dolto’s work, while also paying close attention to questions of sexuality and psychosis in childhood and adolescence.
Attendees are encouraged to purchase and read the case in advance of the event in order to participate in the discussion.
Attendees are encouraged to read the case in advance of the event in order to participate in the discussion.
Discussants: Michael Ryzner-Basiewicz, Michael Ferrara, Patricia Gherovici, Loryn Hatch, Matt Johnson, Gabrielle Jensen, and Jamieson Webster
Co-sponsored by The Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis, Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics and Divided Publishing.
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Come join us at The Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis for a conversation between writer-psychotherapists Nuar Alsadir, Michelle O'Brien and Anthony Weigh. Panelists will discuss the experience of pursuing a clinical practice alongside a creative writing life. The evening will include a Q & A moderated by Claire Donato, Assistant Chairperson of Writing at Pratt Institute, author of Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts (Archway Editions), and psychoanalyst-in-training.
Panelist Bios:
Nuar Alsadir’s most recent book, Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation (Graywolf Press/Fitzcarraldo Editions), was a TIME Magazine must-read of 2022 and a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of 2022. She is also the author of two poetry collections: Fourth Person Singular, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and More Shadow Than Bird. She is currently working on a book on boredom for Graywolf Press and Fitzcarraldo Editions, a published essay of which was selected for The Best American Essays 2025.She is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and a member of the curatorial board of The Racial Imaginary Institute. She works as a psychoanalyst in private practice and teaches in New York University's Creative Writing MFA program.
M. E. O’Brien is a psychoanalyst in formation. She has a co-authored speculative novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (Common Notions, 2022), and a non-fiction work, Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Pluto, 2023). Her work has been translated into seven languages. She has been involved in multiple collaborative publications, including as an editorial collective member of Pinko, a magazine of gay communism, and Pinko’s book, After Accountability: A Critical Genealogy of the Concept (Haymarket, 2025).
Currently she is in analytic training at Pulsion in New York City, and in private practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker.
Anthony Weigh MPhil., L.P. FIPA, is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City. He is a graduate and Associate Member at IPTAR. Prior to analytic training Anthony was a graduate of Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art. His post graduate research degree is from the University of Birmingham (UK) in playwriting and dramaturgy.
Anthony is an internationally acclaimed playwright whose original works and adaptations for the stage have been performed in Europe, North America and Australia. His plays and adaptations are published by Faber and Faber (London). Anthony was Playwright-in-Residence at the National Theatre of Great Britain and Associate Artist at both the Bush Theatre and Donmar Warehouse in London.
Cover image: From Der Naturen Bloeme, date ca. 1350. Free use from the National Library of the Netherlands.
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Organized by Lydia McCarthy
The exhibit will run from Sep 13-Dec 6, 2025
Opening Reception: September 13, 5-7pm
Viewing Hours: First Friday of the month, 4-6pm
Artists include:
Ayanna Dozier
Sophia Frydman
Nicholas Grafia
Stephanie Hanes
Coco Klockner
Tatiana Kronberg
Lydia McCarthy
Sonja Nilsson
Miriam Radwan
Jordan StraferThis exhibition brings together 10 artists who excavate conscious and unconscious aspects of the ‘feminine’ through an embrace of the abject. In drawing, sculpture, photography and video, they push against and transgress borders of materiality, gender and sexuality.
The cultural formation of femininity is structurally linked with the process of pathologizing, demonizing, sexualizing, and relegating any expression of it to the realm of the monstrous. From ancient Greek mythology to Charcot’s images of hysterical women in the mid-19th century, from 1970s horrotica to the present day Real Housewives, it is performed, exaggerated and turned into a spectacle that is to be both feared and consumed. Gender is central in these depictions, as any body that threatens the stability of masculinity’s monolithic logic is rendered non-human. This threat may come in the form of perversion, body modification, death, bodily excretions or any act deemed as ‘immoral’. Feminized bodies are cast as the monster–the witch, the evil temptress, the bleeding wound, the castrator–with their gender as justification for their subjugation. This image is in sharp contrast to the depiction of the sane, rational detachment of cisgender male-ness at the center of a misogynist, patriarchal system.
Each of these artists resist normative conceptions of gender and embrace the collapse of meaning possible through the monstrous-feminine, ultimately reclaiming their agency, re-defining their ‘otherness’ and disturbing order.
Please direct all inquiries to: lydia.anne.mccarthy@gmail.com
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