Both morning and afternoon presentations will be followed by audience discussions that will address the implications of these ideas for psychoanalytic theory and practice.

• Can psychoanalysis in its liberatory impulse encourage a healthy resistance to patriarchy’s persistence?

• Do the structures of patriarchy play out clinically in the analyst-patient relationship and with respect to termination?  

• Can moves from healthy protest to despair and detachment be tracked in the clinical situation and how can the anger of hope be distinguished from the anger of despair?