Stage-Reading of Will Eno’s
Lady Grey ( in ever-Lower Light)
For the First Time in Farsi
February 14, 2024 (25 Bahman, 1402) on Zoom
10 AM EST (18:30 IRAN TIME)
PersPsy Culture Club is proud to present a Stage-Reading of one of Will Eno’s masterpieces for the first time in Farsi, followed by a group discussion and analysis of the play with Mr. Siamak Movahedi, Ph.D, FIPA, Mr. Will Eno, the Playwright, and Mr. Vahdat Yeganeh, director-producer. This is the first time that one of Mr. Eno’s plays has been translated and will be performed in Farsi for Iranian audiences.
The event is free and no registration is required.
This event will be online on Zoom:
ZOOM Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82393829627?pwd=dXBybVNRckNQMTRPQ1BjcFdKd2x4Zz09
Meeting ID: 823 9382 9627
Passcode: 482986
A Post-Show Conversation with Siamak Movahedi, Ph.D., FIPA:
The Ghost of Zahhak in the Age of Totalitarianism
Zahhak: The Legend of the Serpent King is a new adaptation from Shahnameh (The Persian Book of Kings) by Persian poet Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi (AD 940 – 1020). It is inspired by the ancient Persian storytelling style Naghali along with Western physical theater and live jazz music. In coordination with Boston Experimental Theatre, Zahhak: the Legend of the Serpent King is presented as part of A.R.T.’s Dialogue of Civilizations program. Learn More
After the January 14 performance, there will be a post-show conversation with Siamak Movahedi, Ph.D., FIPA, entitled The Ghost of Zahhak in the Age of Totalitarianism. Brief post-show conversations with the company will follow all other performances.
Zahhak: The Legend of the Serpent King
January 12-15, 2023
written and directed by Vahdat Yeganeh
performed by Donya Pooli-Yeganeh & Engin Ozsahin
music by Engin Ozsahin
At American Repertory Theater at Harvard University–64 Beattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Cinema and Psychoanalysis with Dr. Movahedi & Mr. Pouralibaba
ON ZOOM
Sunday, December 25, 2022 @ 11:30AM-1PM EST
8-9:30PM Iran Time
Dr. Movahedi and Mr. Pouralibaba will discuss and examine the movie, ADIEU LACAN from a psychoanalytic perspective. Discussions will be in Persian on ZOOM.
Fee: 75,000 Toman. For registration please email: b.pouralibaba@gmail.com
About the movie: A young woman Seriema, who is trying to understand why her path to motherhood has reached an unbearable impasse, travels to Paris to do psychoanalysis with the maverick French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. (Learn more about the movie)
Directed, written and produced by Richard C. Ledes
Starring David Patrick Kelly & Ismenia Mendes
New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Presents:
The Musical Semiotics of Voice in Distance: Some Reflections on the Debate Over Tele-analysis
Presenter: Siamak Movahedi, Ph.D., L.P., FIPA
Discussant: Andrea Marzi, M.D., Ph.D.
Saturday, December 10, 2022 | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (EST)
(Held Virtually on ZOOM). General Admission $40, Student Admission $30, No charge for NYPSI members/students. Please note registration closes at 4 pm on 12/9. Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900
This presentation regards debates over the “authenticity” of analysis by phone, Skype, or Zoom because of the absence of the bodies in the room. While attitudes toward tele-analysis have recently changed in the wake of COVID, the co-experiencing of two physical bodies in close physical proximity would appear to be necessary for conducting the “real” analysis. Far from simply questioning the importance of the in-person analysis, Dr. Movahedi will instead identify the voice, the musical semiotics of emotions, as a critical, if not the most vital, aspect of psychoanalysis as a “talking cure” and psychoanalysis as an art of listening. Insofar as the speaking is instituted in the body, the body is present through voice even in the virtual analytic room in tele-analysis. He will argue that the need for the presence of the material bodies in the session is one aspect of the analytic rituals that, along with the room, the couch, and other power objects, set the stage for the continuous projection of the identities of the analytic couple. The seductive nature of the analytic situation and the status differential are more salient in the analyst’s office turf than in the patient’s room in tele-analysis.
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