Film & Mind: Anora
**PACIFIC TIME**: May 2, 2025, 8:00 - 9:30 PM
*** Registration will close at 4:30 PM the day of the event. No registrations are possible after this time, no exceptions. *** Please see our Policies for more information.
PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
- You will receive confirmation and details by email.
- The program presentation runs from 8 PM to 9:30 PM
- This program is being presented Online Only.
- 1.5 CE/CME credits are offered for this program.
- A signature is required (in the meeting Chat) for CE/CME Credit.
- Contact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions.
Anora (2024) is the fifth consecutive feature film from Sean Baker to focus on the lives of sex workers and similarly marginalized peoples. It tells the story of Anora, or “Ani”, a resilient and powerful young working class woman from the Russian immigrant community of Brighton Beach. The film is a riotous, heartbreaking, uplifting, laugh-out-loud comedy about yielding to flawed yet hopeful fantasies while remaining true to desire.
Ani is a subject divided by complex feelings towards her heritage and daily life. These feelings extend equally towards her mother tongue, which is something she would prefer to avoid. Even so, her ability to speak and understand Russian makes her appealing to Ivan, the truant son of an oligarch, who struggles to speak within an American popular culture where he is a wildly privileged outsider. Ivan, like Ani, is searching for a means to avoid going home, and through their shared experiences bloom a phantasmatic camaraderie that proves impossible for Ivan’s family to accept. Drama follows.
This Academy Award winning film is an entertaining opportunity for an intimate encounter with the topic of psychoanalytic fantasy and the psychoanalytic act. Lacanian principles are sparsely understood in the wider psychotherapy community. Discussing this film provides opportunities to illustrate how illusions in mental life are colored by desire and the impossibility of fulfilment.
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Schedule
*** All times listed are Pacific Time (PT) ***
Discussion (on Zoom): new start time -- 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM - We will hear from our discussants and explore the film together.
We will not watch the film together prior to the discussion. Participants should watch the film beforehand or begin screening on their own before 6:15 pm PT.
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this session, participants should be able to:
- Explain the concepts of narrative and psychoanalytic act in the therapeutic recasting of emotional maturation
- Explain how incompleteness or its awareness, “lack”, is generative for subjectivity in Lacanian metapsychology
Program Coordinator: Thomas M. Brod, MD, coordinates the NCP Film & Mind Program with Apurva Shah, MD.
Discussant:
Seth Alt is an independent cultural theorist and interdisciplinary researcher who explores the intersections of museums, digital technology, and audience studies. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University, with a dissertation titled, “The Pervert’s Guide to the Museum.” In 2025, Seth will be published with Oxford University Press inside their forthcoming volume, Videogames For Mental Health. Seth has curatorial and archival experience from working for both The Autry Museum of the American West and the California Botanic Garden. He is a member and the current delegate of the California Forum of the Lacanian Field— the west coast anglophone chapter of the international school of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Paris.
IMPORTANT:
- This is online only. It will be held via Zoom.
- Pre-registration is required.
- Target audience: Mental health professionals and open to the public interested in psychoanalytic perspectives. Open to members and the community.
- Level: Every level.
- 1.5 CE/CME credits offered.
- Signature is required for Continuing Education Credit. Zoom attendees must "sign" in and out at the beginning and end of the discussion in the Zoom Meeting Chat to receive credit.
- You will receive a confirmation and event-details message by email after registering. Contact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions.
FEES:
$25 with CE Credit
$15 without Credit
Free for NCP Clinical Associates and Students
"How do I get my CE/CME Credit?"
- Pre-Register below
- If you are registering for the first time you will receive a welcome email. You must follow the directions in this email to complete your registration in order to access your certificates.
- "Sign" in and "sign" out during the event (by typing your full name into the chat). This is how we record your attendance at the event.
- Wait 5-10 business days.
- Download your Certificate on the NCP website.
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT
PHYSICIANS: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the New Center for Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
PSYCHOLOGISTS: The New Center for Psychoanalysis is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The New Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists must report CE credits directly to MCEP using this document to verify attendance. Please note that a psychologist must attend the CE program in its entirety in order to receive credit.
SOCIAL WORKERS, MARRIAGE and FAMILY THERAPISTS (LCSW, LMFT, ASW, IMF, LEP, LPCC, PCCI): The New Center for Psychoanalysis offers continuing education via the organizations listed above whose requirements meet the course content requirements set by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (see 16 CCR section 1887.4.0 for General CE Course Content Requirements). Acceptance of the CE credits for this activity is at the discretion of the licensing board.