McGleughlin Class Registration

This paper reimagines psychoanalytic writing as an ontological practice centered on being and becoming, rather than interpretation and knowledge. Through clinical encounters, the author illustrates how therapeutic transformation emerges when analyst and patient enter shared states of experience and embrace nonsovereignty- a mutual openness to influence, misrecognition, and the unsymbolized. The paper critiques traditional case writing for reinforcing analytic authority, erasing patient subjectivity and privileging coherent narrative over affective complexity. It argues instead for experimental, self-implicating forms of writing that foreground the analyst’s involvement, acknowledge their performative nature, and create space for what resists representation. Such ontological writing challenges conventional distinctions between subject and object, analyst and patient, and positions storytelling itself as a constitutive act, capable of transforming clinical understanding and psychoanalytic knowledge.

Date and Time: Saturday, January 9, 2027 | 10:00AM - 12:30PM PST
Location: Virtual via Zoom (Your link to join will be sent to you upon completion of this registration form to the email address you use below).

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If you need to cancel your purchase, please do so before September 2, 2026 by emailing admin@nwaps.org to request a refund minus a 30% cancellation fee. We are unable to process or offer any refund for cancellations made after September 2, 2026. Allow 2-3 weeks to process your refund request. Note that participation in the entire event is required to obtain CE credits.