On March, 26 at 5:00 PM, a public lecture organized by the International Research Center for Georgian Studies at Caucasus University, within the framework of “Ilia’s Thursdays,” will be held on the topic: “The Function and Place of the Father in Psychoanalysis–Socio-Cultural and Psychic Meanings in Freud’s Classical Theory and in Contemporary Georgia.”

The lecture will be delivered by Giga Maminashvili, professor at Caucasus University, Doctor of Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology, MA (Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, 2008–2021).

The lecture will take place at the Caucasus University Library.

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.

Brief Abstract:

Freud, who made a crucial contribution to the dismantling of patriarchy at the beginning of the twentieth century, at the same time assigns enormous importance to the function and place of the father in psychoanalytic theory and practice. The complex question of the father runs like a red thread throughout his entire work-from his early studies on hysteria conducted with Josef Breuer, where the real father appears as an agent of seduction and an incestuous object, to his 1938 work Moses and Monotheism, where, as in Totem and Taboo, the central figure is the murdered and symbolic father. Not to mention the imagined versions of the father in the case of Little Oedipus, where the father appears as treacherous, punitive, and castrating, embodying the child’s primary rival and simultaneously an object of hatred, love, and idealization. This is the object whose removal from the path is energetically pursued by the innocent yet father-killing hero of Greek tragedy-a hero who shares the mother’s bed and ultimately blinds himself for the crime he has committed.

Those wishing to attend, please register at the provided link.