RADICAL HOPE

Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 at 8 PM via Zoom

This talk attempts to elaborate on the problematic aspects of catastrophism in the face of excruciating social and political realities in Iran. Following the radical feminine uprising in Iran ongoing since September 16th, 2022, the author illustrates, via clinical vignettes, that the antidote to the catastrophism of our times could be witnessed in the resurrection of the social/erotic thinking subject, a resurrection that has been at the very core of this subversive feminist revolt, towards an ethics of life, and its conditions. Dreaming a dream of Radical hope, symbolized in the objectilizing function of the life drive and in that of the capacity to mourn, whereas declining the invitation to the entrapment and concreteness of the melancholic discourse, and that of the superego. Attempting to gaze towards a beyond, towards the ethics of the social.

PRESENTER

Gohar Homayounpour, PsyD, is a psychoanalyst and award-winning author. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Italian Psychoanalytical Society. She is a Training and Supervising psychoanalyst of the Freudian Group of Tehran, of which she is also founder and past president. She is a member of the scientific board at the Freud Museum in Vienna and of the IPA group Geographies of Psychoanalysis. Her first book, Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran (2012, MIT), won the Gradiva award and has been translated into many languages. Her latest book is titled Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning (2022, Routledge).

DISCUSSANT

Adele Tutter, MD, PhD, is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Vagelos School of Medicine; Faculty, the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; and Director, the Psychoanalytic Studies Program of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, all at Columbia University. She is also faculty, the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. Much of her interdisciplinary scholarship addresses the relationships between loss and creativity, and has earned the American Psychoanalytic Association Menninger, CORST, and Ticho prizes, among others. Dr. Tutter is coeditor (with Leon Wurmser), Grief and its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, and Creativity (Routledge, 2015); editor, The Muse: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Creative Inspiration (Routledge, 2016); and author, Dream House: An Intimate Portrait of the Philip Johnson Glass House (University of Virginia Press, 2016). She is a long-time member of the editorial boards of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and American Imago. A regular contributor of art criticism to the Brooklyn Rail, she maintains a private practice in Manhattan and in the Catskill Mountains.

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