Osvaldo Licini, L’uomo di neve, 1952
Après-Coup Presentations Event
On Transference and Its Vicissitudes
Saturday, September 26, 2026
9:30 AM – 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
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9:30 am: Arrival
9:45 am: Introductory Remarks by Kareen Malone, Moderator
10:00am – 11:00am
Lillian Ferrari — Transference, Its Object and Its Subjective Disparity
Anna Fishzon—The Fate of Transference on Zoom in a Case of Melancholia
Olga Poznansky—On the Analyst’s Position with the Adolescent: Working at the Limit of Transference
11:00am – 11:30am: Discussion
11:30am – 11:40am: Break
11:40am – 12:40pm
Cassandra Seltman—Prisoners of Love
Andrew Stein—Transference and the Superego
Jocelyn Ripley—Psychoanalyzing: On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter
12:40pm – 1:15pm : Discussion
1:15pm – 2:30pm: Break
2:30pm – 4:00pm
Yarden Avital—Rethinking Otherness
John Rosania—A.I. and the Unique Future for Psychoanalysis
Richard C. Ledes—Putting Credits on a Dream: From Psychoanalytic Transference to Democratic Reception
Peter Gillespie—Transference and the Universal Equivalent
4:00pm – 5:00pm: Discussion
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Location: In-person in NYC only. Registration details to follow.
This event will be free and open to the public.
Yarden Avital is a clinician, a historian, and an Analysand-in-formation at Après-Coup.
Lillian Ferrari is a psychoanalyst practicing in NYC. She is a Faculty of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. She has taught at Washington Square Institute, at PINC (Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California) and lectured at the Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society. She has written numerous articles in Psychoanalysis; her most recent publication appeared in Sexualidad y los Lazos Sociales (Letra Viva, 2018) and in La ilusión de vivir, tiene porvenir? (Online Publication)
Anna Fishzon is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is Member, Supervisor, and Faculty at IPTAR and Pulsion Institute, and a Participant of Après-Coup. She is the author of The Impossible Return: Psychoanalytic Reflections of Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning (2025) and Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera: Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in Fin-de-Siècle Russia (2013); she is co-editor with Emma Lieber of The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (2023). Anna has also written numerous scholarly articles on late socialism, temporality, consumer culture, animation, and Russian opera.
Peter Gillespie is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Brooklyn and an Analysand-in-Formation at Après Coup Psychoanalytic Association. He has taught in the psychoanalytic training program at Washington Square Institute and written numerous articles on psychoanalysis and its relation to politics, the discourse of science and comparative frameworks for clinical practice. He also co-translated Patrick Landman's Are We All Hyperactive? The Astonishing Epidemic of Attention Disorders.
Richard C. Ledes is a filmmaker with three film that pertain explicitly to psychoanalysis: Adieu Lacan, V13 and Super Athens. He is a member of Après Coup Psychoanalytic Association
Kareen Malone is an Analysand in Formation at Après Coup, Professor Emerita of Psychology, and Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Author of more than 80 publications, she co-edited three books on Lacanian psychoanalysis and co‑authored Science as Psychology, recipient of the William James Book Award. A corresponding faculty at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute, her clinical practice is in Atlanta, GA.
Olga Poznansky is a clinician working with children, adolescents and adults in New York City. She is a yearly participant with the Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. Alongside her private practice, she consults at a preschool, collaborating with teachers and parents to bring a psychoanalytic perspective into the everyday life of the school and meet the children where they are.
Jocelyn Ripley is an analyst who practices in New York City and who also receives patients on Zoom. She is a member of the Après Coup Psychoanalytic Association.
John Rosania is a psychoanalyst-in-formation at Après-Coup and works in private practice in Los Angeles, CA.
Cassandra Seltman is a writer and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. Selected publications include LA Review of Books, Flash Art, DIVISION/Review, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, the European Journal of Psychoanalysis, May Revue, and Parapraxis Magazine.
Andrew Stein is a member of Après Coup and has a private practice and an online Lacanian journal.