Dr. Holmes' lecture will demonstrate that Dr. Marianne Goldberger was an innovative thinker and practitioner in psychoanalysis, lighting the way for others to think anew when old definitions and applications prove limiting to the full uses of psychoanalysis. The lecture will draw on multiple sources of data: from Goldberger's writings, from Holmes' experiences as Dr. Goldberger's supervisee, student, mentee, collaborator in writing, and friend, and review of commemorations of her upon her death.
Goldberger's innovations included showing that the couch can be an impediment to effective analysis, as in her case where a patient needed to sit up to face shame. Goldberger and Holmes upended the view that men cannot be fully analyzed by female analysts, and opened the analyzing mind to a consideration of multiple sources and meanings of anxiety in females, well beyond the overused and often inaccurate application of the concept of castration anxiety.
Marianne Goldberger's questioning of discriminatory conventionality in psychoanalysis provided shoulders on which Holmes' work stands, including Holmes' challenges to discriminatory conventionality in psychoanalysis in its reluctance to recognize the social within the psyche regarding race. The lecture examines in depth multiple forms of shame, illustrates how shame is used to fend off analyzing racialized reactions in psychoanalysis and shows how advances in clinical practice regarding race are achieved when shame is understood and analyzed.
Dr. Holmes' lecture will demonstrate that Dr. Marianne Goldberger was an innovative thinker and practitioner in psychoanalysis, lighting the way for others to think anew when old definitions and applications prove limiting to the full uses of psychoanalysis. The lecture will draw on multiple sources of data: from Goldberger's writings, from Holmes' experiences as Dr. Goldberger's supervisee, student, mentee, collaborator in writing, and friend, and review of commemorations of her upon her death.
Goldberger's innovations included showing that the couch can be an impediment to effective analysis, as in her case where a patient needed to sit up to face shame. Goldberger and Holmes upended the view that men cannot be fully analyzed by female analysts, and opened the analyzing mind to a consideration of multiple sources and meanings of anxiety in females, well beyond the overused and often inaccurate application of the concept of castration anxiety.
Marianne Goldberger's questioning of discriminatory conventionality in psychoanalysis provided shoulders on which Holmes' work stands, including Holmes' challenges to discriminatory conventionality in psychoanalysis in its reluctance to recognize the social within the psyche regarding race. The lecture examines in depth multiple forms of shame, illustrates how shame is used to fend off analyzing racialized reactions in psychoanalysis and shows how advances in clinical practice regarding race are achieved when shame is understood and analyzed.
