Virtual Events

The first of the series of online workshops that the Academy will be offering to its entire membership will be sponsored by the Committee on Antiracism, Diversity and Equity.

Hosted by
Hannah Hawkins-Esther, Liz Marsh & Samir Patel

We will work together to examine how the Other negotiates the inter-subjective experience of I-Thou, as described by Martin Buber. Here the Other (capital O-Other) is a psychic construct―a repository of all that is dissociated from individuals in themselves and thought to exist in or represent others that are different, serving an important stabilizing function. In Freud’s words, “It is always possible to unite considerable numbers of people in love towards one another, so long as there are still some remaining as objects for aggressive manifestations.”