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SUMMARY:WBCP Annual Raphling presents LGBTQIA+ Workshop: Remapping the Symbolic: On Poetic Cartographies of Gender and Erotic Life
DESCRIPTION:Raphling Memorial Lecture presents \nLGBTQIA+ Workshop\nRemapping the Symbolic: On Poetic Cartographies of Gender and Erotic Life \nSunday\, October 4\, 2026\n1:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET\nVia Zoom \nPresenters \n\nFernanda Magallenes\, Ph.D. and\nMarco Posadas\, R.S.W\, M.S.W\, Ph.D. \n\n\nAbout the Workshop \n\nThis workshop brings together the work of Fernanda Magallanes and Marco Posadas in a collaborative exploration of gender\, dreams\, Eros\, poetry\, and alternative models of symbolization beyond the limits of normative psychoanalysis that organizes desire through binary gender\, heterosexuality\, and the Oedipal matrix. They propose that the creation of new forms of symbolization may be crucial not only for the consulting room\, but also for contemporary social and political life; particularly\, in relation to collective forms of existence\, possibilities of community\, and the symbolic conditions through which lives become livable\, intelligible\, and speakable. This workshop is conceived not as the presentation of a closed system\, but as an alive space for thought where participants are invited into the process of imagining\, questioning\, and constructing alongside them. \n\n\nAbout the Presenters \n\nFernanda Magallanes\, PhD: Dr. Magallanes is a psychoanalyst\, writer\, and independent scholar whose work focuses on gender\, embodiment\, Eros\, feminist and decolonial psychoanalytic theory\, and critiques of the Oedipal and patriarchal structures of symbolization. She is a founding member of Estudios Psicoanalíticos Contemporáneos in Mexico City. Dr. Magallanes is the author of Psychoanalysis\, the Body and the Oedipal Plot (Routledge)\, ¿Qué quiere una mujer?: Lo femenino en psicoanálisis (Letra Viva)\, and Eros Violeta (Navarra)\, in addition to numerous articles and chapters in collective volumes. She has delivered lectures\, seminars\, and workshops internationally in institutions based in Mexico\, Argentina\, Brazil\, Perú\, Canada\, the United States\, England\, and Uruguay. She holds a PhD with honors in Philosophy\, Art\, and Critical Thought from the European Graduate School\, where she studied under Judith Butler. Alongside her private practice\, she has worked in diverse mental health institutions and interdisciplinary clinical settings. \nMarco Posadas\, RSW\, MSW\, PhD: Dr. Posadas is a clinical social worker\, licensed psychologist (MEX)\, and psychoanalyst in Toronto\, Canada. He is the inaugural Chair of the Gender and Sexual Diversity Studies Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association\, where he developed its sexual and gender diversity strategic plan that included scientific events in Europe\, North American and Latin America. He is on faculty at several psychoanalytic and psychotherapy training institutes across North America and Latin America. \nDr. Posadas received the Sue Fairbanks Excellence in Psychoanalytic Knowledge Distinguished Lecturer award at the University of Texas at Austin in 2018. Dr. Posadas served on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Association of Social Workers (OASW) where he was recipient of the 2013 OASW Inspirational Leader Award\, and the Distinguished Social Worker of the year for Toronto award in 2022. Most recently\, he was the 2024-2025 Antoinette Calabria visiting scholar for the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas. He is co-editor of “Working Psychoanalytically with Gender Diversity and Sexualities: Resistances to Differences” published by Routledge (2025).
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/wbcp-annual-raphling-presents-lgbtqia-workshop-remapping-the-symbolic-on-poetic-cartographies-of-gender-and-erotic-life/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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SUMMARY:Save the Date: Psychoanalytic Takes on Cinema: "The Backrooms": Alex Smith\, PsyD
DESCRIPTION:Discussion of the film “The Backrooms”\n2025 (110 mins)\nDirector: Kane Parsons \nAfter a therapist’s patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality\, she must venture into the unknown to save him.  \nFriday\, October 30\, 2026\n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm ET\nVia Zoom\n*Film must be viewed before event \nDiscussant: Alex Smith\, PsyD \nPresentation: Horror cinema’s infatuation with the motif of the “liminal space” reflects our personal\nexperience of the self at the precipice of disintegration\, the sense that the “I” is\nimpossible to define in the modern sociocultural void. The deistic Algorithm functions as\na mirror. Whether through rage-baiting vignettes\, or advertisements for a raincoat that\nyou don’t need\, (but could kind of imagine yourself wearing)\, the Algorithm provokes\nworship\, just as it induces dissonance. If the mirror is imperfect\, how imperfect is our\ngrasp of ourselves\, and the world? \nWhen the physical world is subjected to this same procedural generation\, it creates a\nliminal void- a monochromatically yellow office space running copy-paste routines of\nreality. This is the liminal space that Backrooms threatens. The self—and\, by extension\,\nthe world—is never fully ordered. It is fragmented patchwork in constant transition\,\nresisting ever being fully known. Parsons’ Backrooms depicts the “liminal space” and\nthe “I” as they approach a superposition. In here is a boundaried “me”. Out there is an\nimperfect copy waiting to engulf the “me.” As the backrooms iterate and metastasize\,\nour broken selves will leak into the transitory\, undefinable\, liminal field. Ultimately\, these\nsimulacra—reflections of self\, culture\, dream—may replace reality.\nAs a genre\, horror functions as a fantastical iteration of universal human experience.\nThe unthinkable and the unfeelable are depicted as just far enough into the woods (or\ndeep enough into the basement) to belong to the other. At this distance\, we are free to\nexamine these thoughts and feelings\, but never fully inhabit them. Together\, we will\nconsider Backrooms\, the function of the liminal space\, and their explanatory power in\nunderstanding the self in transition and in resistance\, as well as the universal fantasy of\nthe self and the world as orderly\, or at least once-orderly\, paradigms.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/save-the-date-psychoanalytic-takes-on-cinema-the-backrooms-alex-smith-psyd/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Film Series,Public Program
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