When: Monday 16th March 2026 Time: 7:30pm to 8:45pm Where: Online Event *************** Anastasios Gaitanidis will be in conversation Luisa Bloom about his new book Wilderness and Ecopsychology: From Anthropocentrism to Ecological Awareness (Routledge, 2025)....
The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis’s French Psychoanalysis in Translation seminar series responds to the steady increase in interest in French psychoanalysis in translation over recent years. English readers are now much better situated to appreciate the breadth...
The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis’s French Psychoanalysis in Translation seminar series responds to the steady increase in interest in French psychoanalysis in translation over recent years. English readers are now much better situated to appreciate...
About this event The most tragic form of loss isn’t the loss of security; it’s the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.- Ernst Bloch Utopia promises us an ideal paradox consisting of a limit and an opening: a limit to our suffering and...
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 Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London. He is the General Editor of the...
'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.