'On Resistance' - Site member Adam Phillips will be speaking "On Resistance" Biography Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst and an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature at York University. He was formerly a Principal Child...
About this event Talking about Matricide - a panel discussion following Yael Pilowsky Bankirer’s book “Psychoanalytic Explorations of the Masculine and the Maternal: Uncovering the Image of Circumcision in Freud’s Works”. (The book will be on...
About this event This lecture explores the profound relationship between autism and language, emphasizing how autistic individuals often approach language with precision, intentionality, and unique communicative strategies. Drawing insights from autobiographies,...
About this event The ’relational turn’ in contemporary psychoanalysis and psychotherapy dates back to the 1980s. In the US the work of Mitchell, Greenberg, Benjamin, Aron, Davies, Ghent and others mounted a major challenge to the orthodoxies of American...
About this event The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, in association with the Vagina Museum, presents: Women Are Angry Andie Newman will be in conversation with Jennifer Cox about her new book: ‘Women Are Angry: Why Your Rage is Hiding and How to Let it Out’ What...
Join us for a two-day conference examining the past and rethinking the present and future of psychoanalysis and feminism.
This will be a hybrid event – online attendance via Zoom – and will be recorded.
While Freud once thought of humour as suffused with jouissance – with sexual and aggressive tension – he later felt that humour was subversive and has the power to challenge the super-ego which fuels jouissance. Of all the unconscious formations, humour is the most social. We always write a joke for somebody.
In his new book On Giving Up, acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips considers both the gaps and the connections between the many ways of giving up, and helps us to address the central question: what must we give up in order to feel more alive? Join psychoanalyst Francesca Joseph as she talks to him about his work on Friday 23 February 2024. Book on Eventbrite.
The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis was established in October 1997 by psychotherapists who wished to create a training programme and an association that would foster critical, reflective, and imaginative thinking about psychoanalysis and its contemporary...
The screening will be followed by a Q&A and panel discussion with filmmakers Devorah Baum and Josh Appignanesi and psychoanalysts Francesca Joseph and Douglas Gill Praise for the film 'Genre-defying Freudian docudrama ... I couldn't take my eyes off it' - Josh...
A particular epistemology of trauma has come to dominate psychoanalysis: trauma, we uncritically accept, is of destructive, if not catastrophic effects. So mesmerised are we by this epistemology that suggesting it is not a factual accounting of how trauma works but...
Join us for a free flowing and wide ranging conversation about psychoanalysis between Adam Philips and Josh Cohen at 6pm on 25 February in central London. Tickets on Eventbrite.