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Conference: White privilege, racism and psychoanalysis
'When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe' Franz Fanon Saturday 9 October - Sunday 10 October 2021 What can we dare to imagine of a psychoanalysis yet to come? More of the same or the...
Niya B: Ekdysis, film and talk
In Greek mythology, the seer Tiresias was allegedly transformed into a woman for seven years for disturbing two copulating snakes on Mount Cyllene. Niya B re-reads this myth from an eco-transfeminist lens through ritual performances, workshops and sonic explorations....
Shalini Masih: Under the banyan tree – psychoanalytic engagement in an indigenous healing site
Saturday 10 July, 2-4pm This talk will be geared towards giving the audience a taste of the flavour psychoanalysis acquires when it travels to the Indian terroir. As a psychoanalytic researcher in a temple famous for exorcism rituals the author struggled to converse...
Jane Haynes and Jutta Laing: In conversation. The breath of life – celebrating our mortality
Jane Haynes trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst at the Society of Analytical Psychology but defected after realising that the transference was no longer the alpha and omega of her clinical work. She is a founder member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and...
Nick Blackburn: The bomb that will bring us together – on psychoanalytic writing
Shortly after my father died unexpectedly in 2018 I began watching videos on YouTube about the nuclear accident at Chernobyl and its aftermath, where wild nature is reclaiming the former urban areas nearby. Watching initiated a process of writing, which became a book...
Angela Kreeger: From Olive Oyl to Laplanche – a long and winding road
As a child my attention was caught by Olive Oyl, the companion of Popeye. She wanted to be a ‘conversationalist’ – and this is what I am, of a particular strain called a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Adam Phillips has said that analysis enables both patient and...
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