About This Event
ICSW Alumni Committee, Virtual Munch and Learn
Paper Presentation: The Excessive Polycule: Polyamory as an Expression of the Death Drive
Saturday, February 1, 2025
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. CT, (12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch), 1:00-2:00 p.m. Discussion.
Description: This presentation examines the contemporary cultural practice of polyamory as it may arise in the consulting room. Dr. Edie Hitchcock, the winner of this year’s Lee Jaffe Candidates’ Council Paper Prize at the American Psychoanalytic Association, will present her paper utilizing Kleinian and Lacanian conceptions of the death drive to illuminate work with a patient in a distressing polyamorous relationship. This paper examines how polyamory can represent a paradoxical attempt to subvert a hierarchical social order by re-presenting all relationships as lateral and can work via the death drive to disavow lack and ambivalence while promising and promoting life-in-excess-of-life.
Educational goals: Think more deeply about the theoretical underpinnings of work with polyamorous patients; particularly those who are struggling with their multiple romantic and sexual relationships.
Presenter:
Edie Hitchcock, MFA, MA, PhD, LPCP, received her master’s in clinical counseling from the Institute for Clinical Social Work. Dr. Hitchcock is a psychotherapist in private practice and an advanced candidate at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. She received her doctorate from the European Graduate School in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought with a dissertation on the Ethics of Psychoanalytic Listening. She holds an MFA in Film Theory as her introduction to psychoanalytic thought before becoming a clinician. She is a substitute instructor at the Institute of Clinical Social Work and teaches in CPI's Exploring Psychoanalysis program. She is currently working on papers on the sociopolitical implications of affect-focused psychoanalytic technique and a structural analysis of neuropsychoanalysis. She was awarded the Lee Jaffe Candidate Paper Prize in 2024 for The Excessive Polycule and will present it at the ApsA meetings in 2025.
FREE Interactive Webinar via ZOOM – Will be recorded
Please register by Friday, January 31, 2025
To receive 3 Clinical CEs - $20 for ICSW Community
$35 for General Public
LSW/LCSW, LPC/LCPC, Clinical Psychologists
No cancellations allowed after Wednesday, January 29, 2025
(contact Elree C. Smith, esmith@icsw.edu for the Alumni in-person registration link and ICSW Community for the discount link)
Questions, Contact: Leah Harp - leahharp@gmail.com
Registration and attendance at, or participation in, ICSW classes, meetings and other activities constitutes an agreement by the registrant to ICSW's use and distribution (both now and in the future) of the registrant or attendee's image or voice in photographs, videotapes, electronic reproductions, and audiotapes of such events and activities.
About This Event
ICSW Alumni Committee, Virtual Munch and Learn
Paper Presentation: The Excessive Polycule: Polyamory as an Expression of the Death Drive
Saturday, February 1, 2025
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. CT, (12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch), 1:00-2:00 p.m. Discussion.
Description: This presentation examines the contemporary cultural practice of polyamory as it may arise in the consulting room. Dr. Edie Hitchcock, the winner of this year’s Lee Jaffe Candidates’ Council Paper Prize at the American Psychoanalytic Association, will present her paper utilizing Kleinian and Lacanian conceptions of the death drive to illuminate work with a patient in a distressing polyamorous relationship. This paper examines how polyamory can represent a paradoxical attempt to subvert a hierarchical social order by re-presenting all relationships as lateral and can work via the death drive to disavow lack and ambivalence while promising and promoting life-in-excess-of-life.
Educational goals: Think more deeply about the theoretical underpinnings of work with polyamorous patients; particularly those who are struggling with their multiple romantic and sexual relationships.
Presenter:
Edie Hitchcock, MFA, MA, PhD, LPCP, received her master’s in clinical counseling from the Institute for Clinical Social Work. Dr. Hitchcock is a psychotherapist in private practice and an advanced candidate at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. She received her doctorate from the European Graduate School in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought with a dissertation on the Ethics of Psychoanalytic Listening. She holds an MFA in Film Theory as her introduction to psychoanalytic thought before becoming a clinician. She is a substitute instructor at the Institute of Clinical Social Work and teaches in CPI's Exploring Psychoanalysis program. She is currently working on papers on the sociopolitical implications of affect-focused psychoanalytic technique and a structural analysis of neuropsychoanalysis. She was awarded the Lee Jaffe Candidate Paper Prize in 2024 for The Excessive Polycule and will present it at the ApsA meetings in 2025.
FREE Interactive Webinar via ZOOM – Will be recorded
Please register by Friday, January 31, 2025
To receive 3 Clinical CEs - $20 for ICSW Community
$35 for General Public
LSW/LCSW, LPC/LCPC, Clinical Psychologists
No cancellations allowed after Wednesday, January 29, 2025
(contact Elree C. Smith, esmith@icsw.edu for the Alumni in-person registration link and ICSW Community for the discount link)
Questions, Contact: Leah Harp - leahharp@gmail.com
Registration and attendance at, or participation in, ICSW classes, meetings and other activities constitutes an agreement by the registrant to ICSW's use and distribution (both now and in the future) of the registrant or attendee's image or voice in photographs, videotapes, electronic reproductions, and audiotapes of such events and activities.