Molweni,
We are writing to remind you of the SAPC conference and to invite you and your group/s to think about how you will be participating.
We are very pleased to announce an early line-up of Participants that includes: Armien Abrahams, Astrid Berg, Amanda Kottler, Trevor Lubbe, Tshidi Maseko, Nomfundo Mogapi, Cora Smith and Sally Swartz.
The Early Bird Fee offers expires on 31 August 2016. The full conference which runs from 12h30 – 17h15 on Friday 28 October and 08h30 – 17h15 on Saturday 29 August costs R1 800 – online registrations at www.sapc.org.za.
The national conference of a confederation like SAPC offers a unique opportunity for dialogue between the diverse psychoanalytic traditions and practices represented across groups. We are delighted to …
… report that we have had a good response to our request for Abstracts. We are planning longer plenary and shorter parallel sessions with panel discussions as well. There is still time for you to send in that abstract or to encourage a colleague to – the deadline has been extended to 7 August 2016.
Our Programme is taking shape – Under the Couch and Country banner, we have decided on two panel discussions:
Friday 28 October 2016 – discussants will engage with the topic What holds us, how it fails and how we fill the gaps. This panel offers the opportunity for members of groups to present and interrogate the models and theories that inform our understanding of our South African social contexts, and possibly contribute to our blind spots. We hope that the panel and audience will explore the theme by drawing on both personal reflections and clinical experiences.
Saturday 29 October 2016 – Politics and the Psychoanalytic practitioner. Using the text “Is Politics the last Taboo in Psychoanalysis?” (Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 2004, vol. 2 pp 5-37), discussants will examine how our engagement with politics enters into our theories and our work.
The SAPC Video Award (Flyer attached) is an exciting pilot project which, emulating the successful IPA project, elicits short four-minute films dealing with public perception of psychoanalysis in this country. Winning films will be screened at the conference. .
We’d like to use Posters to communicate visually information about the SAPC groups and work being done by our members. Many groups do have posters from the 2014 Colloquium – please let us know if you’d like to display a poster as we need to make display arrangements. Perhaps your group might want to put one together, if not dust your old one off!
With such an exciting diversity of panels, projects, presentations and papers we are anticipating a vibrant and stimulating conference. We look forward to your participation – sign up now!
Enkosi,
SAPC Conference Organising Committee
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