Events

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”...

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...

In his new book On Giving Up, acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips considers both the gaps and the connections between the many ways of giving up, and helps us to address the central question: what must we give up in order to feel more alive? Join psychoanalyst...

The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis was established in October 1997 by psychotherapists who wished to create a training programme and an association that would foster critical, reflective, and imaginative thinking about psychoanalysis and its contemporary...

A particular epistemology of trauma has come to dominate psychoanalysis: trauma, we uncritically accept, is of destructive, if not catastrophic effects. So mesmerised are we by this epistemology that suggesting it is not a factual accounting of how trauma works but...