Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series
Patricia Gherovici, PhD
(New York, NY)
“More Powerful than Hate: Freud, Lacan, Fanon, and Bad Bunny.”
Friday January 29, 2027
7-9pm (CST)
ZOOM
About the presentation:This public lecture addresses psychoanalysis in the barrio to ask how hatred shapes subjects, communities and the culture they create. Hatred, Lacan argued, is one of the three passions of being, alongside love and ignorance. It does not rest with the other’s disappearance but seeks their degradation and erasure. Freud showed how love of a leader and hatred of an enemy can bind a crowd beyond the reach of reason, and Lacan went further, calling ours a “civilization of hatred,” one driven by segregation, the objectification of the subject and a capitalist discourse that sets aside “the things of love.” Hate seeks degradation and total negation, an endless pursuit that Lacan described as “consistent.”
Frantz Fanon, psychiatrist and theorist of colonialism, gives these ideas a body and a history. He showed how colonial hatred is written into the psyche of the colonized: in language, in the gaze of the other, and in a self-image imposed from outside. Fanon also insisted that the clinic could not be separated from the social conditions that produce suffering, a conviction that runs through community psychoanalysis today.
Bad Bunny serves as a contemporary point of encounter. Born out of trap and reggaeton, genres once policed and dismissed as noise from the margins, his music speaks from Puerto Rico’s colonial condition, in Spanish, to a global audience. His work takes up displacement, gentrification, and the pleasures and wounds of the barrio, turning the place of exclusion into a place of enunciation. Treating his songs and public persona as cultural texts, the lecture asks what happens when those positioned as objects of contempt claim the right to speak, to desire, and to celebrate.
Bringing these four figures into conversation, the lecture explores how hatred and exclusion are lived, resisted and transformed, and what psychoanalysis can offer: a space where those pushed to the margins can speak as subjects rather than be managed as problems.
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Patricia Gherovici, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and Sigourney Award recipient. Single-authored books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Gradiva Award and Boyer Prize), Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference . With Chris Christian: Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Gradiva Award and American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize); with Manya Steinkoler: Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can't ; Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy, and Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans* (Gradiva Award).
Learning Objectives:
Examine hate as a developmentally self-protective response to the other, one that is part of how identity is formed but can also become self-destructive.
Analyze, through a psychoanalytic lens, the seductiveness of racism and fascism and the interpersonal, institutional, and structural violence they produce.
Explore how community psychoanalysis responds to hate as a lived reality for people marked by poverty, migration, racism, and institutional neglect, and reflect on their own position as clinicians, including how they deal with their own hate.
Fees
CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.
Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.
New Fellows / Ongoing: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.
Non-CCP members, single admission: $50
Continuing Education
This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).
Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by January 28, 2027 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org
Suggested Reading
Bass, A. (2021). “Murderous Racism as Normal Psychosis: The Case of Dylann Roof”. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 69(2), 291-313.
Euripides. Medea. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35451/35451-h/35451-h.htm
Ghent, Emmanuel. “Masochism, Submission, Surrender – Masochism as a Perversion of Surrender” (1990). Contemporary Psychoanalysis, (26):108-136.
Weiland, C. (2015). Chapter 7 "The Homogenized Group" and Chapter 8 "Masculinity and the Fascist State of Mind". The Fascist State of Mind and the Manufacturing of Masculinity. (pp 109-140).
Presented by
The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee