by Admin General | Oct 15, 2014
This centenary symposium, from the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, brings together scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud’s most important metapsychological papers: ‘On Narcissism: An Introduction’ (1914) and ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ (1915).
The Symposium will take place on March 11th and 12, 2015 and is organised by Dr Julie Walsh, a trainee member of the SITE, and will feature papers from SITE members Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz and Haya Oakley, as well as contributions from John Fletcher, John Forrester, Stephen Frosh and Elizabeth Lunbeck.
Full details HERE
by Admin General | Aug 18, 2014
The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis 2015 Spring Conference
On Conflict
What does a contemporary psychoanalysis have to say about conflict? Is there anything new to add about that which is at the heart of all the stories psychoanalysis wants to tell?
Conflict is a foundational concept in psychoanalysis, not merely because of the supposed conflict that is at the heart of every neurosis, but because it is always already established in the split between the conscious and the unconscious. Psychoanalysis is littered with such dichotomous opposition: the good and bad breast, the internal and the external, the imaginary and the symbolic, the father and the son. A relentless conflict between what we want and what we’re supposed to want.
Where there is conflict, there is repression. At least that’s how Freud, after his ‘second topography’, thought of it. Conflict has a causal relationship to repression—it provides a reason, that is, for repression to be called upon. But what might be repressed in conflicts affecting not just individuals, but organisations, governments, the global and the local? And what is repressed in order for a conflict to change, for it to be averted or dampened down—resolved, even? What would be lost in this change? We ask:
What are conflicts used for?
What might a dialectic of conflict be?
How can individuals or groups bear the inherent losses engendered by conflict?
What do we want to say about the scars and fault-lines of organisational psychoanalysis?
What is a fruitful conflict?
In the spirit of the SITE, we hope to hear voices that speak from differing and opposing perspectives and disciplines or from those who occupy marginal spaces. Not to encourage conflict, but to provoke a thinking about it; not to close down difference, but to hear what that difference does. Isn’t this the radical nature of psychoanalysis?
We invite papers inspired or provoked by these questions.
We invite ideas for workshops, seminars, readings or screenings as part of the Spring Conference Satellite programme.
Abstracts for papers lasting twenty minutes can be sent to the Conference Committee below.
All papers will be eligible to be published in the issue of our journal, Sitegeist, devoted to the Conference.
a.gaitanidis@talk21.com
andienewman@hotmail.com
rob@robweiss.co.uk
by Admin General | May 13, 2014
The new Sitegeist editorial panel has now met and decided on the themes for the next two issues.
For issue 10, the focus will be on papers produced by trainees from the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. The idea is that trainees’ theoretical papers can be read by a wider audience, who will get a feeling for what the organisation stands for. Submission is open to all current trainees and full members who have been qualified for less than five years.
For issue 11, the editors want to examine the theme of anxiety. This issue is open to all and the editors welcome contributions that tackle this topic from a broad range of psychoanalytic and philosophical perspectives. Please see the submissions guidelines before sending work.
The Editorial Panel have agreed to examine the possibility of a return to a paper edition of the Journal in the form of a print-on-demand publication.
For more details, or to speak about submitting work email rob@robweiss.co.uk and dbonnigk@btinternet.com for issue 10, or valparks@btinternet.com for issue 11.
See our Notes for Future Contributors for submission guidelines.
by Admin General | Jan 1, 2014
The SITE is very pleased to offer another series of psychotherapy workshops that will be running in Truro Winter/Spring 2014. The workshops will show how contemporary psychoanalysis can bring a richer understanding to varied social and clinical situations. They will be delivered by psychotherapists involved with the SITE training in clinical psychoanalysis in Truro.
Details and Booking Form below:
SW workshops Winter Spring 2014
by Admin General | Dec 7, 2013
The SITE’s Working With… series of workshops launches next month.
Intended for psychotherapists, counsellors, trainees and all those interested in contemporary psychoanalytic thought, the series offers fresh insight into clinical and cultural issues.
The topics covered by the workshops include: Truth and Interpretation, Wittgenstein, Free Association, Panic Attacks, Foucault, Sexual and Racial Difference and Psychosis.
For full details and booking form, click on the link below:
Working With… Series 2014 Brochure
