SAPI EDUCATION DAY 2020

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Disruption and Development:

A Contemporary Perspective on Freud’s Concept of the Oedipus Complex

Date: Saturday 5 September 2020

Starting at 12pm with a welcome from SAPI president Elda Storck and SAPI chair Vossie Goosen and preamble by Scientific Committee member Ntshediseng Tlooko, the main feature of the day begins at 12:30pm when SAPI founder Mark Solms will give a lecture on contemporary views of the Oedipus complex, titled, The Oedipus Complex Today. Following this, Mark will be in conversation with Dorothy Evans Holmes, one of the first black psychoanalysts in North America. They will discuss the topic further against the background of our current Covid-19 reality, as well as in the context of the explosion into global consciousness of the Black Lives Matter Movement.

At 3:15pm, after a 45 minute break, British psychoanalyst Maxine Dennis, who is now a well-regarded and regular colleague at our events, will lead the Plenary Discussion. We hope material from the previous session and any further thoughts and feelings will come to life in the Plenary Discussion and will add to the richness of the day. This plenary, which ends at 4:45pm, will be followed by our standard closing comments and acknowledgments. Education Day will finish at 5pm. 

TICKET PRICES:

• Free of charge for all SAPI members.

For non-SAPI members:

• International colleagues - R700 (US$40)
• South Africa based colleagues - R500
• Students - R100

SPEAKER PROFILES:

Prof Mark Solms is a psychoanalyst registered with the British Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association. His main area of scholarship is the integration of psychoanalytic theories and neuroscience. He has produced over 300 publications and he runs research initiatives not only at UCT but also at the Arnold Pfeffer Centre for Neuropsychoanalysis in New York and at the Anna Freud Centre in London.

Dr Dorothy Evans Holmes is a teaching, training and supervising analyst in the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas, Professor and PsyD Program Director Emeritus at the George Washington University and teaching, training and supervising analyst emeritus at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. Dr Holmes is widely-recognized for her work on the impact of race and gender on the psychoanalytic treatment process.

Maxine Dennis is a psychoanalyst and member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She works in the Adult Department at the Tavistock Clinic where she chairs a psychotherapy unit. She is also a member of the Tavistock Trauma Unit. She is passionate about making psychoanalysis more progressive and more accessible to the broader community.