Freud Café Canada presents
“The Leader’s Hypnotic Influence
and the Creation of Alternate Reality”
Saturday, January 20, 2024
1:00 to 3:00 p.m. (ET) / 10:00 to 12:00am (PT)
A free online event via Zoom, in collaboration with WCPSI outreach.
**Pre-registration is required.
To register please email: admin@torontopsychoanalysis.com
Registration closes one week prior to the event.
Psychoanalysis has traditionally been an insular practice by analysts in their offices sequestered from any outside intrusion. However, in recent years a demand for psychoanalytic perspectives on the underlying dynamics of political figures and social phenomena has arisen. Media representatives have increasingly approached psychoanalysts for insight into such conditions as narcissistic personality disorder, compulsive lying, delusional thinking, when attempting to understand the irrational machinations of Donald Trump and what the presenters call the “Trump Phenomenon.” Here, we will not be investigating the individual psyche, but rather the relationship between psyche and the culture of the populace (i.e., the polis). This session will consider the complex impact of Donald Trump on the American populace, specifically, the underlying dynamics of hypnotic influence and the creation of an alternate reality.
Learning Objectives: After this session participants will be able to:
1. Understand the underlying dynamics of Donald Trump’s influence on the populace.
2. Discuss what techniques Trump uses in his hypnotic suggestions to the populace.
Endre Koritar, M. D., is a training and supervising analyst with the Western Canada Psychoanalytic Society Institute. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of the University of British Columbia affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Sándor Ferenczi Network, the National Council of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, the National Training Committee, and an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is interested in researching and elaborating on the ideas that Sándor Ferenczi, who was a harbinger of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and technique, developed in his writings.
Ian S. Miller, Ph. D., is a clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst, practicing and writing in Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Miller is Associate Editor of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis and a Member of the Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He is the author of Defining Psychoanalysis. Achieving a Vernacular Expression (Karnac, 2016), and On Minding and Being Minded (Karnac, 2015). Together with Kay Souter, he is author of Beckett and Bion. The (Im) Patient Voice in Psychotherapy and Literature (Karnac, 2013); and with Alistair Sweet, On the Daily Work of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2018), Clinical Spinoza Routledge, 2022.
