The Colloquium Series of the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis

January 26, 2024

Nuar Alsadir: “Laughter in the Analytic Setting”

Beginning with a moment in one of Freud’s case studies in which he bursts out laughing, this talk will explore the ways in which laughter can act as a form of unconscious communication. Because of the positive associations most people have to laughter, its meaning often flies beneath the social—and, often, analytic—radar, even as it has the potential to collapse the alliance between an analyst and an analysand.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to identify different forms of laughter and how each communicates outside of language.

2. Participants will learn to identify unconscious communication, countertransference, and enactments.

3. Participants will learn how to use their understanding of laughter’s different modes of communication in the treatment.

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$50

Free for MIP candidates (RSVP candidates only)