On Thursday, May 28, at 5:00 PM, as part of "Ilia's Thursdays," Salon meeting and discussion organized by the International Research Center for Georgian Studies at Caucasus University will be held on the topic: "The Maleficent Father – A Metapsychological Portrait of the Post-Soviet Father."

The meeting will be moderated by Giga Maminashvili, PhD and MA in Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology (Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, 2008–2021).

The event will take place in the Librarea.

Online attendance will also be available. Intended participants must register in advance.

Brief Abstract:

“Father is not a real object—so what is he, or who is he? The father is a metaphor. What is a metaphor? A metaphor is an operation whereby one signifier replaces another and takes its place; this is precisely the main support of the paternal function—the father who plays a central role in the Oedipus complex.”

— Jacques Lacan, “The Formations of the Unconscious” (1957–1958)

The collapse of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, as a vast ideological and totalitarian system, created a vacuum in the social and political sphere—a space freed from Soviet fathers. Over the past decades, this space has been occupied by a range of different figures. In the second seminar dedicated to the concept of the father, again hosted by Caucasus University, we will attempt to outline, with relative precision, a metapsychological portrait of the post-Soviet father—a kind of composite “photofit” constructed from the massive projections that the collective has imposed on these figures.

Short Biography:

Giga Maminashvili is a professor at Caucasus University, Doctor of Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology, MA (Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, 2008–2021), psychoanalyst at the Association Espace Analytique (Association for Freudian psychoanalytic training and research), and President and co-founder of the Georgian Psychoanalytic Space Association.

Registration: Attendance requires prior registration via the provided link.