Chicago Psychoanalytic Society Study Group
Thursday, March 20, 2025
7:00 – 8:30 PM Central time
By Zoom Only
in preparation for
"Unthought Subjects: How to Listen for the Shadow in Our Racialized Interactions"
By: Michelle Stephens, PhD
March 27, 2025 7:00 PM, CDT
CPS study groups are intended to enhance learning and help audience members feel better able to participate in discussions that follow Society presentations. This CPS study group is being offered a week before the March 27, 2025, Society lecture by Michelle Stephens, PhD, who will explore how unconscious racialized interactions are inflected by “shadow," unformulated selves that are kept hidden, out of awareness, chaotically and amorphously unformulated in the field, as disturbing thoughts, dark precursors of inherited knowledge and affects.
To prepare for Dr. Stephen’s talk, we will read: OPEN READING HERE
This group is open to all members of the Society on a first-come, first-serve basis, with a maximum of ten members. Please register online here by clicking REGISTER.
This is the fourth study group offered at CPS, and it is free to all society members and candidates. There will be no fee as there are no CEUs, although we may offer them for study groups in the future.
Participants will be asked to read the paper in advance and be on time, as the group will begin promptly at 7 pm on Zoom. The study group will be co-chaired by Chicago psychoanalysts Stephanie Fariss, JD, LCSW, and Ramya Iyer, AM, LCSW.
About the Presenter:
Michelle Stephens, PhD, is the Founding and Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, and a Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. She is a psychoanalyst and scholar whose work primarily focuses on the intersection of culture and critical race theory. She has numerous publications on race, race and psychoanalysis, studies in gender and sexuality, psychoanalysis of culture and society, and contemporary psychoanalysis.
