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 practices. This anniversary event aims to celebrate the work done over the past 25 years, and to reflect upon the […]
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 Saturday, 23 September 2023 19:00 – 21:00 BST Westminster Quakers, 52 St Martin’s Lane Covent Garden London WC2N 4EA £8 Site members and trainees Click here to book Praise for […]
Taking as her case study the controversial sexual fetish of race play, Avgi Saketopoulou questions the psychoanalytic fiction that ghosts of the past can be durably turned into ancestors. She identifies the serious clinical limitations, political dead-ends, and ethical blockages of traumatophobic thinking, and suggests that iterative returns to the site of the traumatic have the potential to re-open trauma, putting its stalled energies back into circulation. For transformation to be possible, however, we need to be working with a notion of psychic life that can be transformed.
Friday 31 March 2023
18:00 – 20:00 BST
Westminster Quakers Meeting House, 8 Hop Gardens, off Saint Martin’s Lane London WC2N 4EA
Tickets £10 for Site members and Site trainees; £15 for general public
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POSTPONED A video presentation narrated by Lorna McNeur of seven unfolding stories about how Central Park heals New York City. Through the alchemy of art, architecture and active imagination we see how the journey of this island city is symbolic of the journey of individuation and the discovery of Self; the nugget of gold at the sacred […]
A rare opportunity to engage directly with leading contemporary psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips. The Q&A will be hosted by Chris Oakley
Psychoanalytic thinking teaches us that trauma leaves the subject fractured, less agentic, more subject to iterative, stalled revisitations of the traumatic event. In this presentation, Avgi Saketopoulou argues that significant possibilities for psychic transformation and for contact with experience are courted when we make ourselves passible to returning to the site of the traumati