CO-SPONSORED Speaker Series

Friday, October 9, 2026

6:00-800pm

INSIDIOUS EXCITEMENT AND THE HATRED OF REALITY

Event price: Event is free! Registration is required.

Doors Open: 5:30pm - Refreshments and Light Snacks

Parking: Lot B and C

Location:
Carlow University
Gailliot Center, located on the 5th floor of University Commons at the center of Carlow University’s campus

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Continued Education: 2.0 credits

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Registration closes 9am October 7th

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Dr. Lynne Zeavin

INSIDIOUS EXCITEMENT AND THE HATRED OF REALITY

  • In this paper the author, a clinical psychoanalyst, explores the basis of her own internalized misogyny through an excavation of a part of her past, explicitly her relationship to her father and its residues. This personal inquiry is set against a backdrop of psychoanalytic thinking and theorizing that is brought to bear on the problem of misogyny itself especially in the current political moment when attacks on women are rampant.

  • Lynne Zeavin is a training and supervising analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute where she co-chairs the Committee on Racial Bias and teaches the work of Melanie Klein. An Associate Editor at JAPA, Dr Zeavin has authored numerous papers and book chapters on sexuality, misogyny and Race, as well as various aspects of Kleinian theory and technique. She is a co-founder of the Frankiel Fellowship sponsored by the Klein Trust which has offered training in Kleinian analysis for advanced candidates for a decade. Dr. Zeavin is a founder of Green Gang, a 4 person collective engaged in the study of our human relationship with the natural world. She is the co-editor (with Donald Moss) of the forthcoming Hating, Abhoring and Wishing to Destroy: Essays on the Contemporary Psa Moment (NEW LIBRARY)

    1. Define internalized misogyny and describe its psychological and psychoanalytic manifestations.

    2. Identify ways in which internalized misogyny may shape patients’ experience and clinicians’ subjective responses within the therapeutic relationship.

    3. Describe how sociocultural contexts may contribute to the development and perpetuation of internalized misogyny.

  • COMING SOON!

  • '“Can You See Me?” By Lynne Zeavin

Connect contemporary psychoanalytic theory to the world(s) that we individually and collectively inhabit and navigate

  • Learn about the clinical and social utility in applying contemporary psychoanalytic thought to the complexities of human experience in culture

  • Benefit from the opportunity for dialogue between nationally-recognized psychoanalytic experts and local clinicians and students in the mental health field

  • Our program welcomes students and mental health practitioners learning and working in diverse fields of psychotherapy and social service

  • We are committed to decreasing financial barriers to robust educational experiences by providing this program tuition free and offering enrolled participants access to APA- approved continuing education credits at no cost.

Series details:

The speaker series, “Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies in the Contemporary World” highlights the ongoing relevance of psychoanalytic concepts in today’s world to the broader mental health community in Western Pennsylvania. For recent generations of students and clinicians in our region, psychoanalytic ideas have often not been relevant and useful for daily clinical work. However, as psychoanalytic language and concepts become less abstract and more accessible, we see the time as ripe to explore the connections that can be drawn between contemporary psychoanalytic theory and the worlds that we individually and collectively navigate as we try to improve the practice of psychotherapy in an ever increasing complicated surround. Our aim is to bring experts in contemporary psychoanalytic theory into dialogue with clinicians and students in our Western Pennsylvania region by offering a compelling free educational program through this speaker series.

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