There seems to be an enduring appetite for biographies and autobiographies, judging from lists of best-selling books. Perhaps this can be ascribed to our curiosity or, to phrase it even more in the vernacular, nosiness. The latter seems an appropriate term in the context of Freud, whose allegiance to Fleiss and his frankly psychotic theories […]
This issue of Sitegeist is dedicated, with a mixture of sadness, gratitude and admiration, to the memory of our friend and colleague Kirsty Hall, who died in May of 2015. Kirsty once mentioned that the word ‘bereavement’ derives from the reevers, medieval raiders who terrorized her native Northumberland. Her death has robbed us of a […]
The genesis of this translation lies in the seminars I taught on the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis training in 2012 on the topic of trauma. I was clear that I could not leave uncovered the Shoah or Holocaust, partly simply because of its insistence in the modern world, and also because I have worked with […]
The theme of The Site’s last London conference was ‘Psychoanalysis and Class’ (Sitegeist: Number 3, Autumn 2009). All the contributors to the conference spoke of the invisibility, elision, or avoidance of class in the psychoanalytic discourse. Our last conference, at our site in the South West, took the environment as its theme, in a different […]