The PCC's Continuing Education Committee is pleased to present

Radical Rethinking:
A Future for Psychoanalysis Beyond the Individual Unconscious

featuring Francisco J. González, MD
The Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California

Saturday, September 14, 2024 – 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (Pacific Daylight Time)
5:00 pm to 8:00 pm (British Summer Time), 18:00 to 21:00 (Central European Time)
Via In-Person and Zoom. The Zoom Link will be emailed to participants one-week before the event.
The In-Person meeting will be held at Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services, 3200 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90034.

Program Description

This program explores the need for a radical rethinking of psychoanalytic theory that incorporates something beyond the individual unconscious: the social unconscious. Our speaker, Dr. Francisco González, was a member of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in Psychoanalysis and has an extensive background in thinking about psychoanalysis through the lens of the social unconscious (including questions of group belonging and racial identity), a view that has been underdeveloped in the history of psychoanalysis.

In 1986 Andre Green wrote that psychoanalysis must periodically renew itself, striving to "extend its range, to subject its concepts to radical rethinking, to commit itself to self-criticism. In which case it must run the risks entailed by such self-examination, from which the best as well as the worst may emerge.” Nearly forty years later we are at such a point of self-examination and potential renewal.

For the complete information (Full Program Description and Schedule, Target Audience, Course Objectives, Program Faculty, and Registration) click here.