Re-Placing Objects

ABSTRACT

This essay contemplates the importance of things and places for psychoanalysis. In contrast to the more common psychoanalytic category of space, it celebrates the density and specificity of place. In contrast to relational and internal objects, it examines material objects, with a special emphasis on the materiality of the transitional object. Materiality, it proposes, is a reservoir of innovation.

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Francisco J. González

Francisco J. González, M.D., is a Personal and Supervising Analyst and Faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and a founding member of Reflective Spaces Material Places, a group of clinicians working at the intersection of community mental health, social justice, and psychoanalytic thinking. He received the Symonds Prize and the Ralph Roughton Award for his writing, which often takes up the question of the social link in psychoanalysis on a range of topics including formations of sexuality and gender, archaic mental states, film, perversion, and immigration. He serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Gender and Sexuality and practices in San Francisco and Oakland.