Scientific Conferences

The Captive Maternal and Carceral Capitalism

Joy James in conversation with Jackie Wang

Moderated by Hannah Zeavin

Date: April 22, 2023

Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

We live in a moment where the rights of incarcerated parents are once more increasingly contested. This insidious logic—that to produce stability, children must be torn from their parents, especially their mothers—is not new. As many scholars have shown, actuarial management of the family and of the mother and child bond was central to the practices of the plantation, including the near ubiquitous practice of family separation in the Antebellum context, as well as carceral practices in the Jim Crow Era and beyond. Joy James terms these women “Captive Maternals”—drawing a genealogy across the last 300 years to argue that the United States’ “longest war is with its domestic target: enslaved or captive black women, a war that dates back to the Commonwealth of Virginia’s 1658 attempts to (re)enslave Elizabeth Key, one of the first Captive Maternals to have her battles enter public record.” Addressing our contemporary, and the drive for the prison-for-profit model, or what Jackie Wang calls “carceral capitalism” this panel offers a conversation about the mother incarcerated. 

Registration: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration-cowap-2022

Date: Saturday, April 29, 2023

9:00am – 1:00pm ET Presentation and Discussion

4 CME/CE

Via Zoom

Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_ukraine_panel_4_29_23

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Wednesday, April 26, 2023

For a complete list of dates, presenters, learning objectives, and detailed CME/CE information see flyer on the registration page.

Registration Fees:

WBCP members – $100 (4 CME/CE)

WBCP PSP and Candidates – No fee (4 CME/CE)

Non-members – $150 (4 CME/CE)

WBCP’s Fellows (2022-2023) –  No fee (No CME/CE)

WBCP’s Fellows (2022-2023) –  $80 (4 CME/CE)

Non-Member Students, Residents, Fellows –  $50 (no CME/CE)

Non-Member Students, Residents, Fellows –  $80 (4 CME/CE)

ALL FEES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE

Program Description:  The war in Ukraine began on February 24, 2022. Since that time, the World Health Organization estimates that a quarter of Ukraine’s population may suffer from a mental health disorder related to the conflict. Ukrainian clinicians have been under tremendous pressure adjusting to treating their patients, supervising other clinicians, and maintaining a psychoanalytic mindset during wartime. This program will address clinicians’ experiences in wartime including treating loss, maintaining and protecting therapeutic relationships, working with children, providing supervision, translating psychoanalytic texts into Ukrainian, and the personal experience of providing psychoanalysis while living through war. Each of these topics will be addressed by a Ukrainian clinician on the panel. The panelists will also be available to answer questions from the participants.

 

with Andrea Celenza

The analyst’s vitalizing activity, as reflected in the analyst’s invitation to be, in the offer to take in the analyst as an object of love, to receive what the analyst transmits, and the taking in of other components implicit through nonverbal means (through gaze and displaced touch) are all components of a healthy analytic process. These are all aspects of healthy maternal eroticism as well. In this presentation, the various components of maternal eroticism will be illustrated through my work with Petra. By attending to and responding within the multiverse of maternal eroticism (derived in particular from the work of Julia Kristeva), a process of transformation occurred where signifiers of the abject, previously residing in foreclosed spaces of the analysand’s mind, were accessed in the usable space of the analytic setting.

with Ann Pellegrini and Tiffany Lethbo King

In much of psychoanalytic theory, the maternal is intimately tied up in, and is understood to be, the grounds of sexual difference, if not gender. But following from approaches in feminist, queer, trans, and Black Study, the maternal can be understood to have no gender. In this presentation, the panelists will address the notion of the maternal as ungendered, agendered, and multigendered.