Beyond Words: Languages and Psychoanalysis
Sat Feb 25, 08:30 - Sun Feb 26, 13:30
Centre for the Book,
ABOUT
SAPI 2023 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
What are the languages of the talking cure?
Do words alone facilitate healing?
Our first speaker Mandla Mbothwe’s passion for the performing arts is driven by his desire to heal.
Is it not also the listening that cures? And not just listening for words.
We will hear from psychoanalyst Howard Levine who will speak to the limits of language and what words cannot say.
When words fail us, affective states succeed us.
Something that artist and psychoanalyst Cathy Rogers will explore.
But who gets lost in translation?
A question to be pondered by our panel of diverse thinkers, Pippa Skotnes, Gyuri Fodor and Sue Levy.
Silence languages something of the unspoken, as our clinical case by psychoanalyst Patricia Oosthuizen will demonstrate.
Join us as we go beyond words and explore the languages of psychoanalysis.
Speaker Profiles:
Mandla Mbothwe is UCT CTDPS Senior Lecturer, Founder and Artistic Director of Mud and Fire Parables and Co-Artistic Director of Magnet Theatre. He is a multi-award international acclaimed South African playwright, researcher, director, art teacher and theatre and performance maker, creative curator and arts practitioner. He has created and directed theatre productions of high quality, in South Africa and abroad, dealing with cultural and historical themes. Some of his noteworthy work includes Ingcwaba le ndoda lise cankwedlela (The grave of the man is next to the road), Ukutshona ko Mendi (The sinking of the Mendi), Biko’s Quest, G7: Okwe Bokhwe Biko-Rising, Ikrele leChiza…the sermon and Ezemiphefumlo..of the souls.
Howard B. Levine is a member of APSA, PINE, the Contemporary Freudian Society, on the faculty of the NYU Post-Doc Contemporary Freudian track, on the editorial Board of the IJP, and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, editor-in-chief of Routledge Wilfred Bion Studies Book Series and in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the author of Transformations de i'Irreprésentable (Ithaque 2019) and Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry (Routledge 2022) and editor of The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro (Routledge 2022) and The Freudian Matrix of André Green. Towards a Psychoanalysis for the 21st Century by André Green (Routledge/IPA forthcoming). He has co-edited many books, the latest being Covidian Life (Phoenix 2021) and Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited: A New Look at Bleger's Classical Work (Routledge/IPA 2022).
Cathy Rogers is a psychoanalyst and artist based in Cape Town. She has published her research into how art-making can be used to learn complex psychoanalytic ideas and facilitate working through emotion. Cathy has a Clinical Social Work qualification and is an experienced play, couple and adult psychotherapist.
Patricia Oosthuizen is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Cape Town. In addition to her private practice she enjoys the application of psychoanalytic thinking within the psychiatric and addiction clinics to which she consults.
Pippa Skotnes is an artist and scholar, educated at the University of Cape Town where she received her Masters and Doctoral degrees. She was founding director of the Centre for Curating the Archive where she is a research professor, and is the General Editor of the Digital Bleek and Lloyd Archive. She has exhibited art and curatorial work widely and published several books including Claim to the Country: the Archive of Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek. She is currently working on the archiving of various endangered click languages recorded in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and a project about refugee animals in the northern Cape.
Georg Fodor is a consultant psychiatrist, a training analyst of the South African Psychoanalytic Association and a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association. He is a founding member of the Neuropsychoanalysis Association and a Teaching Trainer of the Austrian Society for Group Dynamics and Organisational Development.
Sue Levy is a training analyst of the South African Psychoanalytical Association. She is the lead editor with Alessandra Lemma of the book, The Perversion of Loss: Psychoanalytical Reflections on Trauma. She heads up the Johannesburg SAPI/SAPA Low Fee Service and teaches and supervises in psychoanalysis and applied psychoanalysis.
PRE CONFERENCE EVENT
Friday 24th of February 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
Venue: 6 Spin Street Restaurant Gallery, Cape Town City Centre
A conversation between artist Haroon Gunn-Salie and psychoanalyst Mark Solms. Snacks and a drink included.
Max 100 people
SAPI DINNER
Saturday 25th of February 2023, 6pm onwards, Spin Street Gallery, Cape Town
Venue: 6 Spin Street Restaurant Gallery, Cape Town City Centre
Full course meal. Cash bar.
Max 60 people