Houston Psychoanalytic Society
Evening Speaker Series
Without Memory or Desire: From Bion to Intersubjectivity
Presented by Joseph Aguayo, PhD
Thursday, March 3, 2022
7:30PM – 9:00PM Central Time

Live via Zoom
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Non-Members: $20

CE/CME/CEU (1.5 hrs.) Fees
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Friend Members: $20
Non-Members: $20

Instructional Level: Intermediate

W. R. Bion's (1967) most famous paper, "Notes on Memory and Desire" is deceptively simple-sounding. Joseph Aguayo takes up the paper's multi-vectored aspects in terms of how Bion went about doing his analytic work and how he thought about it. Implications for modern intersubjectivity technique, for example the work of Thomas Ogden, are considered.

OBJECTIVES
  1. Define the concept of entering clinical sessions without desire or expectation, a free-form sort of listening that will allow patterns of clinical meaning to emerge.
  2. Describe the immediate-past-in-the-present moment, as it becomes the present-in-anticipation-of-the-near-future.
  3. Define and differentiate Bion's 'without memory and desire' from Freud's notion of 'even-hovering attention.'
Presenter
Joseph Aguayo, PhD is a Member of New Center for Psychoanalysis, a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California, and a Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society.  He has also developed a series of 16 video-conference lectures: ‘Introduction to the Clinical Work of W.R. Bion,’ recently given as an ongoing, online seminar to Division 39 psychologists (of the American Psychological Association) and candidates at the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center.

Dr. Aguayo has been a frequent contributor to the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. He has co-edited two books on Bion's work: Wilfred Bion: Los Angeles Seminars and Supervisions, (2013); and Bion in Buenos Aires: Seminars, Case Presentation and Supervision, (2017). He presents his Bion research at the IPA Vancouver Congress (July, 2021) and serves as discussant to Bernardo Tanis, who will give one of the keynote addresses at the Congress.

REFERENCES
Aguayo, J. (2014). Bion's Notes on Memory and Desire - Its Initial Clinical Reception in the United States: A Note on Archival Material. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 95(5):889-910.

Aguayo, J. and Lundgren, J. (2018). Introduction to a Comparative Assessment of the Clinical Theories of W.R. Bion and D.W. Winnicott. Brit. J. Psychother., 34: 194-197. 

Odgen, T.H. (2019). Ontological Psychoanalysis or What Do You Want to Be When You Grow. Up? Psa. Quarterly, 88: 661-684.  
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Scanned photo of Bion, released by Kaesar