Events
Talking about Matricide
About this event Talking about Matricide - a panel discussion following Yael Pilowsky Bankirer’s book “Psychoanalytic Explorations of the Masculine and the Maternal: Uncovering the Image of Circumcision in Freud’s Works”. (The book will be on...
Autism Speak$: Why Autistic People Take Language Very Seriously
About this event This lecture explores the profound relationship between autism and language, emphasizing how autistic individuals often approach language with precision, intentionality, and unique communicative strategies. Drawing insights from autobiographies,...
Relationality and its Discontents
About this event The ’relational turn’ in contemporary psychoanalysis and psychotherapy dates back to the 1980s. In the US the work of Mitchell, Greenberg, Benjamin, Aron, Davies, Ghent and others mounted a major challenge to the orthodoxies of American...
Women Are Angry
About this event The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, in association with the Vagina Museum, presents: Women Are Angry Andie Newman will be in conversation with Jennifer Cox about her new book: ‘Women Are Angry: Why Your Rage is Hiding and How to Let it Out’ What...
WILD THOUGHTS: for a Feminist psychoanalysis-to-come
21 & 22 June 2024 - Join us for a two-day conference examining the past and rethinking the present and future of psychoanalysis and feminism.This will be a hybrid event - online attendance via Zoom - and will be recorded. “Every desire has a relation to madness”...
Jamieson Webster: Humour, Violence, Repetition: The case of a Young boy and his Mother
Abstract: While Freud once thought of humour as suffused with jouissance – with sexual and aggressive tension – he later felt that humour was subversive and has the power to challenge the super-ego which fuels jouissance. Of all the unconscious formations, humour is...
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