Annie Rogers, professor of psychoanalysis and clinical psychology, received her B.A. from Webster College and her Ph.D. from Washington University. She comes to Hampshire after fifteen years of teaching and doing research at Harvard University.
Professor Rogers has conducted studies on a range of topics including girls’ psychological development and trajectories of change in child analysis, as well as studies of language and visual art in psychosis. Co-director of Hampshire’s Psychoanalytic Studies Program, she is analyst member and faculty at the Lacanian School of San Francisco and associate member of the Association for Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy in Ireland. She is also a member of Zea Mays Printmaking.
Professor Rogers is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University; a Whiting Fellowship at Hampshire College; and an Erikson Scholar at Austen Riggs. She is the author of three books: A Shining Affliction (Penguin Viking, 1995) and The Unsayable (Random House, 2006), and Incandescent Alphabets: Psychosis and the Enigma of Language, Karnac, 2016), in addition to numerous scholarly articles, short fiction, and poetry.
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Recent and Upcoming Courses
- Meeting Lacan
In this course students will learn Lacanian psychoanalysis through several different experiences with reading theory and formulating their responses: through plays, an exegesis of poetry, and the construction of a fictive analytic case. Students will read primary literature on psychoanalysis, including selected texts by Freud and Lacan, as well as a gloss on these texts in the secondary literature. Because this reading is dense and difficult, students will also learn a method of reading closely that involves the use of a Lacanian dictionary to investigate key terms. This course is appropriate for students with Div II status and a previous college level class in psychoanalysis. Instructor permission required.
- Poetics of the Unconscious: Words and Images
The course offers a sustained engagement with words and images, understood as constructions of the unconscious. We will work with words, images, and words with images. The unconscious is constructed in both psychoanalysis and art-making through associative processes: the convergence and divergence of elements (through repetition, variation, gaps, erasures, and contradictions) create emergent meanings that dissolve into nonsense, paradox, and questions. Students will create a poetics grounded in these processes. While a background in psychoanalysis, creative writing, or the visual arts is not a requirement for this class, those students are welcome. Students will be required to write a poetics based on psychoanalytic texts, create a palimpsest presentation of images and words, and participate in all classroom activities and discussions, as well as small group collaborations outside of class.
- Psychoanalysis: Children and Adolescents
How does psychoanalysis understand the treatment of children and adolescents? How have ideas and practices of child psychotherapy within psychoanalysis changed over time? What does an analyst actually do in sessions and with what results? These are the major questions we'll address in this course. Students will engage in intensive reading of primary sources and two major papers, in addition to regularly reviewing concepts through in-class essays and role-plays. We will read classic historical cases beginning with Freud and Klein, and move toward contemporary accounts of psychoanalysis with children. In a mid-semester paper, students will review a child case and apply a different approach to psychoanalysis to that case. In a final assignment, students will read one of four novels and create a fictional treatment relationship with a child character, then give a psychoanalytic explanation of the treatment. Students are expected to prepare for discussions (the reading is not easy), and to participate fully in class.
