On Childhood and Puberty: Working with Knots—Liliana Donzis
Clinical work with children allows us to establish the distinction between development, history, and the emergence of the subject — a difference that can be approached topologically. Studying the functions of symptoms, this workshop will address different structures and severe disorders, exploring the role of transference in the work with children.
Vivre à Bonneuil: A Documentary Screening with Clinical Discussion
In 1969 Maud Mannoni, one of France’s great child psychoanalysts, founded an experimental school in Bonneuil-sur-Marne, Paris. Sympathetic to the basic attitude of antipsychiatry but not its theory, Mannoni grounded her theory on psychoanalysis. Bonneuil welcomed children shut out from the school system as ‘maladjusted’: psychotic, autistic, or with ‘bad behavior’ problems, and treated them, reinstating them in a social environment.
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Memoria dell’utopia: Gramsci e noi—Angelo Villa
This biography of the revolutionary thinker Antonio Gramsci encompasses his Sardinian childhood marked by poverty and illness; his years of study, intellectual production and political activism; and his last years of imprisonment under Fascism which failed to deflect his fundamental drive toward the future.
On Child Psychoanalysis Today—Angelo Villa
Child psychoanalysis, ever since Freud’s time, has been a testing ground for our field, serving to question the basic premises of psychoanalysis. While inextricable from intergenerational history, it is also firmly marked by contemporary issues and new forms of symbolization. This workshop will focus on the analyst’s obligation to respond inventively to new symptoms in children and remain open to the unexpected.