by Admin General | Mar 22, 2018
Social, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Psychoanalysis and its Institutions
How did the past produce psychoanalysis? How do psychoanalytic institutions co-produce the present? How will psychoanalysts help to construct the future? Psychoanalytic theory is often mobilised to analyse political discourse, or to explain the reasons behind historical events, implicitly elevating psychoanalysis to a position outside of politics and history. In this series of three panel discussions in Jan-Feb 2018, the SITE brought political theorists, sorcerers, philosophers and activists into conversation with practicing analysts, to put the spotlight on the historical and political context of psychoanalysis itself.
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by Admin General | Mar 16, 2018
We are pleased to announce that issue 13 of our journal, Sitegeist, is now out and available via our publishing partners.
Issue 13 takes features papers from our 2017 conference on Transgender and Psychoanalysis, other essays on the same theme and a full review section.
Contributors include Dina Al- Kassim, Sheila Cavanagh, Juliet Jacques, Henry Strick van Linschoten and Damien McCann.
Sitegeist Issue 13 can be purchased HERE
by Admin General | Jan 31, 2017
The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Transgender, Gender and Psychoanalysis Conference Fringe, 2017 is proud to present a programme of artistic events, March 5th-15th, to celebrate the Transgender, Gender and Psychoanalysis Conference, March 11th &12th, Freud Museum, London.
Tickets and further information: https://www.facebook.com/sitefringe2017
https://www.the-site.org.uk/events/conference-fringe-2017/
https://freud.org.uk/events/
5-15th March, Transgender, Gender and Psychoanalysis, An Exhibition
of paintings, sculpture, photography and film
“Putting together an exhibition of visual art on this theme has been an intriguing journey. We felt it was our responsibility to show, without any sort of agenda, a stimulating selection of work that would capture the imagination and provoke dialogue. We think the exhibition will surprise, challenge, and arguably most importantly, move its audience.” Mandy Wax and Spencer Rowell, Curators
Venue: Draper Hall, Junction of Hampton Street/Newington Butts, London SE17
Time: Private View 5th March, 4 pm-6.30 pm. Exhibition open Monday 6th & Tuesday 7th March, 11-6 ; Saturday 11th March, 11-5 and Sunday-Wednesday 12-15th March, 11-6 pm. (We regret we are closed Wednesday-Friday, 8th-10th March).Tickets: free but email sitefringe2017@gmail.com to add your name to guest list
Site Fringe 2017 and the Cinema Museum are proud to present Laurence Anyways, a film by Xavier Dolan charting ten years in the relationship of a trans woman’s relationship with her lover. Dolan raises questions of love, relationships, and transphobia in a well written and visually lush film.
The film screening is followed by a Q&A.
Venue: Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way, London SE11 4TH
Time: Tuesday 7th March 2017, 7.30 pm
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/laurence-anyways-tickets-31446486287
Infallible Productions at Draper Hall presents the London premiere of
The Gospel according to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, Jo Clifford, dir. Susan Worsfold. Join Queen Jesus for a revolutionary queer ritual in which bread is shared, wine is drunk and familiar stories are reimagined by a transgender Jesus.
Venue: Draper Hall, Junction of Hampton Street/Newington Butts, London SE17
Dates and time: Thursday 9th, Friday 10th, and Saturday 11th March 2017, 7:30 pm
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-gospel-according-to-jesus-queen-of-heaven-london-premiere-tickets-31585854140
Tickets are still available for the Conference: Transgender, Gender and Psychoanalysis, 11th & 12th March, https://www.the-site.org.uk/events/conference or https://freud.org.uk/events/
by Admin General | Oct 20, 2016
The SITE is teaming up with the Freud Museum for its annual conference in 2017.
Transgender, Gender & Psychoanalysis
11th & 12th March 2017 at the Freud Museum
The struggles of people of transgender identity have exploded into mainstream consciousness. By crossing the ‘gender divide’, the trans movement has radicalised the question of what it means to be a man or a woman, uncovering a fertile and conflicting arena in which the emancipatory deconstruction of sexual identity intriguingly flirts with the pitfalls of essentialism.
Such a reshuffling of binary and non-binary categories confronts psychoanalysis with new clinical, political and theoretical challenges that push it out of its comfort zone. How can contemporary psychoanalysis meet the demands and the needs that such challenges yield? What does psychoanalysis have to lose? And what does it stand to gain?
The 2017 SITE Conference in collaboration with the Freud Museum will approach these questions critically while exploring new horizons from which to address the complex issues of sexual identity and gendered positioning.
Tickets now on sale, click here to find out more
