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”. 

 Saturday 1st March, 2025 6.00pm till 8.00pm

 AGIP: 1 Fairbridge Rd, Archway, London N19 3EW

 (The book will be on sale at the event)

 Speakers: Dr Yael Pilowsky Bankirer, Prof. Miri Rozmarin, Rabbi Dr. Tali Artman Partock, and Dana Lubinsky

 

The event will explore the concept of matricide within psychoanalysis, particularly in relation to the image of circumcision as a site for the formation of masculine identity. The speakers will respond in their presentations to one of the book chapters: “Little Hans: A Double Layered Matricide”. Through the playful story of little Hans, his fascinating conversations with his parents, and his dreams and fantasies, this book chapter depicts the way Freud repeatedly both formulates and conceals matricide as part of masculine Oedipalisation. 

 

In her book, Psychoanalytic Explorations of the Masculine and the Maternal, Yael Pilowsky Bankirer reads into Freud’s writings with the unique prism of circumcision as a marker for both the formation of masculine identity, and for matricide, the disappearance of the mother.   

 

Yael Pilowsky Bankirer uses Freud’s idea of circumcision within a text as a Leitfossil: a key-fossil through which an unresolved unconscious conflict can be traced. She conducts a close reading of Freud’s texts – including Little Hans, The Wolf Man, Totem and Taboo and Moses and Monotheism – to illuminate and uncover the textual unconscious, deconstruct the explicit narrative and open alternative psychoanalytic possibilities inherent to the encounter with the maternal realm. Throughout the volume, Pilowsky Bankirer informs her analysis by considering the work of Freud in tandem with that of Lacan, Kristeva, Irigaray, Derrida, Benjamin, Butler and more.

 

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Dr. Yael Pilowsky Bankirer is a psychoanalyst and poet based in Cambridge, UK. She is a Medical Doctor and has a PhD in Gender Studies and Psychoanalysis. She is a member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and an editor for Sitegeist – a journal of psychoanalysis and philosophy.

 

 

Prof. Miri Rozmarin is an Associate Professor in the Gender Studies Program at Bar-Ilan University. She is also a Senior Research Fellow and the Head of the research lab “Contemporary Feminist Political Subjectivities” at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Her research interests include political subjectivity, vulnerability theory, and maternal subjectivity. She has published extensively in these areas, including two books and numerous articles in leading journals. Her current research aims to explore how vulnerability is mobilized as a resource for contemporary political subjectivities.

 

 

Dana Lubinsky is a clinical psychologist and poet. Her debut poetry collection “Neither word, Nor Covenant”” (Bli Brit, Bli Mila”) published by Am Oved, 2014, for which she won the Ministry of Culture Award for Emerging Poets in Israel, explores the exclusion of women from the symbolic order, and the dialectics of feminine writing, amid women’s recent migration into written language.

Her second book, “Once Aflame” published this summer, delves into maternal subjectivity, challenging the widespread notion of motherhood as a renunciation of selfhood. In addition to her clinical practice and poetry, Dana also engages in writing essays and literary critiques that touch upon the interface between literature, gender, and psychoanalytic theory. She is a mother of three.

 

 

 

Rabbi Dr Tali Artman Partock teaches Judaism at the University of Cambridge and Leo Baeck College. She is also a community rabbi and training to be a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at AGIP. Her research focuses on trauma and recovery in religious communities of Late Antiquity. Mostly looking at reintegration after enslavement, prostitution and other forms of sexual violence. Some of these topics are discussed in ‘Agency Personhood and Rabbinic Law,’ forthcoming in Routledge, 2025. 

 

 

Eventbrite Link for Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-about-matricide-a-panel-discussion-tickets-1225479495159?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis presents

Autism Speak$: Why Autistic People Take Language Very Seriously

When: Sunday 9th February 2025
Time: 18:00 – 19:30 BST
Where: Westminster Quakers 52 Saint Martin’s Lane London WC2N 4EA

Tickets: £20.00 – General Tickets, £15.00 – Members and Trainees

Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autism-speak-why-autistic-people-take-language-very-seriously-tickets-1203763762819?aff=oddtdtcreator

About:

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, research, and personal accounts, the session unpacks why language is not merely a tool for communication but a pivotal element of self-expression and autonomy in autistic lives. Drawing from the Lacanian tradition of psychoanalysis, the lecture reflects on how non-autistic caretakers and practitioners can adapt their listening to foster more inclusive and supportive communication practices, which can significantly benefit autistic individuals. I aim to include some of my own experiences as a practitioner working with autistic patients, as well as share aspects of the history of autism within psychoanalysis.

Bio:

Dr. Leon S. Brenner (Ph.D.) is a psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic theorist based in Berlin. His work is rooted in the Freudian and Lacanian traditions of psychoanalysis, with a focus on exploring the relationship between culture and psychopathology. His book, The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language, became a bestseller with Springer Nature in 2021 and 2023. He is the founder of Lacanian Affinities Berlin (laLAB) and Unconscious Berlin.

October 5th 2024 – In person  & Online 

CONFERENCE

“Relationality and its Discontents”

Buy tickets here     

The programme is available here and includes biogs of speakers and chairs

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 psychoanalysis, particularly Ego Psychology. Its early influences included Fairbairn and British Object Relations theorists. The relational approach can also trace a line back to Freud’s contemporaries Otto Gross and Sandor Ferenczi – and also to C.G. Jung.

It was also part of a movement in psychoanalysis which was in tune with the huge cultural and social changes that have continued since the 1960s. Sexual and racial minorities could contemplate risking going into therapy and analysis both as patients and as practitioners of the profession. These transitions have not all proceeded smoothly, yet they have profoundly affected practice and continue to place demands on received theory. Our conference will speak to some of the questions and clinical challenges that have been opened up, drawing on recent thinking from feminism, queer theory and post-colonialism.

The desirability of an authentic ‘Meeting of the Other’ (last year’s International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy conference title) is a valuable aim and principle of contemporary analytic (and other) therapies. But is there a potential for a new orthodoxy setting in; the cure through ‘proper’ relating? Despite the broadening of the field in the psy-professions, are we in danger of upholding a model of relationality which downplays its discontents?

Speakers include:

Suzanne Adebari

Yael Pilowsky Bankirer   

Anastasios Gaitanidis  

Stephen Gee   

Ana Minozzo  

Andrew Samuels

 

Titles of Papers

Suzanne Adebari
‘In Search of a Smorgasbord Altar’ and The Oppositional Gaze.

Yael Pilowsky Bankirer

Vulnerable Encounters: Identities and Their Discontents

Anastasios Gaitanidis   
The Death Drive Reconsidered: A Relational Psychoanalytic Perspective.

Stephen Gee    
Passion Stories: Till We Do Part.

Ana Minozzo    
Love and Difference Between Us and Beyond: an Ethics of Togetherness.

Andrew Samuels   
The Shadow of the “Relationship”: Uses and Abuses of Empathy, Safety, Holding, Containment and the Therapeutic Alliance – No Therapist Works at the Client’s Own Speed.

RELATIONALITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS (downladable poster)

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-site-conference-relationality-and-its-discontents-tickets-932494545287?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, in association with the Vagina Museum, presents:

Women Are Angry

Saturday 6th July 2024 @ 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Vagina Museum

275 Poyser Street, London, E2 9HD

 

Tickets £25, buy tickets here

 

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 if you aren’t depressed?

What if you don’t have chronic fatigue?

What if you are just… angry?

In a world where patience is a virtue and being a good girl is for life, women are never allowed to truly express their anger – and it is making us ill. After a lifetime of being told to repress it, to hide it away and fear it, anger has begun to manifest in female bodies in myriad ways we can’t control. And the results are alarming.

In this powerful and eye-opening book, psychotherapist Jennifer Cox takes us on a journey from cradle to grave revealing how, at every stage of our lives, women are conditioned not to speak out or ‘make a fuss’. Jennifer draws on her wealth of therapeutic experience to show us how to tune in to our feelings of frustration and offers us the tools to express what we have subdued for so long.

Women Are Angry will be out on the 4th July 2024 in hardback, eBook, and audiobook.

Jennifer Cox is a psychoanalyst in private practice. Jennifer’s work with her clients is informed by both her traditional psychoanalytic and contemporary neuroscientific training. She has worked across both forensic and psychiatric settings.

She founded social movement Women Are Mad in 2023 to encourage women to get in touch with their repressed anger. She co-hosts the global ‘Women Are Mad’ podcast. Recent guests have included Bryony Gordon, Shappi Khorsandi, Donna Ashworth and Sophie Heawood.

Andie Newman is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London. She trained with the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and is a member of its Training Committee, a teacher and supervisor.