Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D.

Education

B.S., 1998, Major in Psychology, Deree College, The American College of Greece, Athens, Greece
M.S., 2000, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York
Psy.D., 2003, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York
Certificate in Psychoanalysis 2014, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Areas of Research/Interest

• Sexuality
• Perversion
• Gender
• Primitive Mental States
• Jean Laplanche
• Representation

 

Fellowships/Honors

• 2011: Ruth Stein Prize, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
• 2014: Annual Prize of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association for the paper
• 2014: Symonds Essay Prize, from Studies in Gender and Sexuality
• 2014: Ralph Roughton Award, Committee of Gender and Sexuality, American Psychoanalytic Association

Selected Publications

Saketopoulou, A. (forthcoming, 2019). Into overwhelm; consent, risk and the re-translation of enigma. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2018). Book Review: ‘Laplanche: An introduction’ by Dominique Scarfone. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 99:3, 778-786.

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2018). Holding futurity in mind: therapeutic action in the relational treatment of a transgender girl (pp. 263-285). In: Harlem, A. & Bonovitz, C. (Eds). Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. NY: Relational Book Series..

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2018). Between Freud’s Second and Third Essays on Sexuality: Commentary on Hansbury, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 65(6), 1033-1048.

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2017). Structured like culture: Laplanche and the translation of enigma. DIVISION/Review, 17, 51-52.

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2017). Muriel Dimen: teacher, mentor, psychoanalytic scholar. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 18(2), 143-148.

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2015). Diaspora, exile, colonization:masculinity dis-located. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 16(4), 278-284

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2015). Lesbian, see under Woman. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 20, 3, 246-249.

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2015). Sexual Rapture, Ego Rupture and the Role of Transgression: A Discussion of Megan Rundel’s “The Fire of Eros: Sexuality and the Movement Towards Union”. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25, 631-637.

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2015). On sexual perversions’ potential to act as portal to unformulated mental states. In Lemma, A. & Lynch, P. (Eds). Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives (pp. 205-218). London: Routledge.

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2014). To suffer pleasure: the shattering of the ego as the psychic labor of perverse sexuality. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 15(4), 254-268.

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2014). Mourning the body as bedrock: developmental considerations in treating transsexual patients analytically. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Asssociation, 62(5), 773-805.

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2013). Catherine Opie: American photographer, American pervert. Studies in Gender and Sexuality. 14(3). 245-252.

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2011). Minding the gap: race and class in clinical work with gender variant children. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 21(2),1233-1243.

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2011). DeShawn: beyond color-blindness in gender (pp. 172-179). In Dimen, M. (Ed.) With culture in mind: psychoanalytic stories. NY: Routledge.

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2011). Queer children, new objects: the place of futurity in Loewald’s thinking. DIVISION/Review, January.

 

Saketopoulou, A. (2010). Identifications annealed, adhesive and political: Nina Farhi’s Milner, Marion Milner’s Susan. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 20(5), 510-515.