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On Psychoanalysis: Adam Phillips and Josh Cohen in conversation
A free flowing and wide ranging conversation between two psychoanalysts and writers. Adam Philips and Josh Cohen will discuss psychoanalysis with each other and the audience. Bio: Josh Cohen Josh Cohen is a psychoanalyst and Professor of English at Goldsmiths...
The Psychologization of Islamophobia
Critical psychologist and author Dr Robert K Beshara discusses the psychologisation of Islamophobia through the lens of Jacques Lacan's university discourse Abstract In this talk, Dr Beshara will unravel the psychologization of Islamophobia drawing on Jacques Lacan's...
On Language and Embodiment in the Makings of Gender – a talk by Dany Nobus
'Rose coloured, in many different shadings … with uneven patches of blood' Abstract Of the five constitutive components of human sexuality, gender is by far the most complex and intractable. Apart from the fact that gender is indissolubly linked to the human ‘lived...
Birth and Psychoanalysis
Join us for a round table discussion on Dr Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel’s book Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis (De Gruyter 2022) We will start with a conversation between Dr Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa; Rabbi Dr Tali Artman...
Q&A with Adam Phillips
This is an in-person event with no prescribed talk or presentation. A rare opportunity for an audience to engage directly with the leading contemporary psychoanalyst and writer, Adam Phillips. The Q&A will be hosted by Chris Oakley as part of The Site’s occasional...
Towards a theory of traumatophilia: de-translation, sovereign experience, re-translation
An online talk by Avgi Saketopoulou as part of the Clinical Site series 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, and with...
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