Rapaport-Klein Study Group

63rd Annual Meeting Program - June 20-22, 2025
(see the Letter to Members, with brief biographical statements of presenters and abstracts of their talks)

FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2025

8:00 to 10.00 p.m.: Mark Solms, Ph.D., "Did Strachey falsely scientize Freud?" (on Zoom) [this presentation will be introduced by Morris Eagle]

SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2025

9:00 to 10:15 a.m.: informal go-round and introduction of guests

10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.: Panel 1 of 2: "On the Nature of the Unconscious and Unconscious Representation: Contrasting Perspectives" (hybrid) [this panel will be introduced by John Auerbach]:

Anne Erreich, Ph.D., "Mental Representation: The Infant's Innate Capacity for Representing Subjective Experience" [see the 2024 JAPA paper "The Innate Capacity for Representing Subjective Experience: The Infant's Mind Is Neither Primitive nor Prerepresentational" by Anne Erreich]

Joel Weinberger, Ph.D., "The Unconscious: What We Think We Know, What Took so Long, and Some Clinical Implications" [see the 2021 book The Unconscious. Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications by Joel Weinberger and Valentina Stoycheva]

1:00 to 2:30 p.m.: Lunch

2:30 to 5.00 p.m.: Panel 2 of 2: "On the Nature of the Unconscious and Unconscious Representation: Contrasting Perspectives" (hybrid) [this panel will be introduced by Chrid Christian]:

Wilma Bucci, Ph.D., "Levels of Awareness in Emotional Communication: A Multiple Code Perspective" [see the 2020 book Emotional Communication and Therapeutic Change: Understanding Psychotherapy Through Multiple Code Theory, particularly Chapter 8 ("The interplay of subsymbolic and symbolic processes in psychoanalytic treatment: It takes two to tango, but who knows the steps and who is the leader?"), and Chapter 11 ("Embodied communication and therapeutic practice: In the consulting room with Clara, Antonio and Ann")]

Jerome C. Wakefield, Ph.D., "Freud as Philosopher of Mind: Reconstructing the Freud-James Debate Over Unconscious Versus Subconscious Mental States" [see chapters 1 and 3 of the 2018 book Freud and Philosophy of Mind. Volume 1: Reconstructing the Argument for Unconscious Mental States by Jeremy Wakefield: Chapter 1, Introduction: Should Freud be Taken Seriously as a Philosopher of Mind?; Chapter 3: "Unconscious" as "Mental and Not Conscious": Why Repression, the Dynamic Unconscious, and Psychopathology Are Irrelevant to Freud’s Philosophical Argument]

6:00 to 8:00 p.m.: Cocktails at Prospect House (3 Prospect Hill Road)

SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2025

9:00 to 10:00 a.m.: Members' Business Meeting

10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Anthony Weigh, M.Phil., L.P., "Clinical Case Presentation" [this presentation will be introduced by Chris Christian]

Anne Erreich, Ph.D., Jeremy Wakefield, Ph.D., Wilma Bucci, Ph.D., and Joel Weinberger, Ph.D., "Discussion of Clinical Case" (hybrid)

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