Events
On Language and Embodiment in the Makings of Gender – a talk by Dany Nobus
'Rose coloured, in many different shadings … with uneven patches of blood' Abstract Of the five constitutive components of human sexuality, gender is by far the most complex and intractable. Apart from the fact that gender is indissolubly linked to the human ‘lived...
Birth and Psychoanalysis
Join us for a round table discussion on Dr Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel’s book Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis (De Gruyter 2022) We will start with a conversation between Dr Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa; Rabbi Dr Tali Artman...
Q&A with Adam Phillips
This is an in-person event with no prescribed talk or presentation. A rare opportunity for an audience to engage directly with the leading contemporary psychoanalyst and writer, Adam Phillips. The Q&A will be hosted by Chris Oakley as part of The Site’s occasional...
Towards a theory of traumatophilia: de-translation, sovereign experience, re-translation
An online talk by Avgi Saketopoulou as part of the Clinical Site series Psychoanalytic thinking teaches us that trauma leaves the subject fractured, less agentic, more subject to iterative, stalled revisitations of the traumatic event. In this presentation, and with...
Conference: White privilege, racism and psychoanalysis
'When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe' Franz Fanon Saturday 9 October - Sunday 10 October 2021 What can we dare to imagine of a psychoanalysis yet to come? More of the same or the...
Niya B: Ekdysis, film and talk
In Greek mythology, the seer Tiresias was allegedly transformed into a woman for seven years for disturbing two copulating snakes on Mount Cyllene. Niya B re-reads this myth from an eco-transfeminist lens through ritual performances, workshops and sonic explorations....
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