Making Sense of Dementia: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
We believe that psychoanalytically informed ideas can offer an important framework for understanding the experience of dementia, and that the progressive character of the condition means that making sense of the unconscious processes, powerful emotions and interpersonal dynamics becomes the most important aspect of coping with it.
Conference: What Might Clinical Psychoanalysis Learn from Queer Theories of Sexuality?
What is the influence of Sigmund Freud’s ‘Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality’ on contemporary clinical psychoanalytic practice and psychosocial considerations of sexuality?
Lacan on Love: An Interview with Bruce Fink
Can psychoanalysis – with ample assistance from philosophers, poets, novelists, and songwriters – give us a new perspective on the wellsprings and course of love? Can it help us fathom how and why we are often looking for love in all the wrong places, and are fundamentally confused about “what love really is”?
Mourning and Melancholia: Life in the Face of Loss
Podcast of our conference celebrating the centenary of Freud’s groundbreaking work ‘Mourning and Melancholia’.
Symposium-Eternal Recurrence and the Unconscious: The Question of Fate in Psychoanalysis
The return of the repressed, the return of the drive, the return of desire, all feature in the landscape of the psychoanalytic mythos. In this symposium we will be considering the fateful crossing of the psychoanalytic project with Nietzsche’s demon. Can psychoanalysis create a potential space against the domination of fate?
Class and Psychoanalysis – Joanna Ryan in discussion with Barry Watt
What does psychoanalysis have to say about the emotional landscapes of class, the hidden injuries and disavowed privileges? How does class figure in clinical work and what part does it play in psychotherapeutic trainings?
Fashion and Psychoanalysis: An international conference
Speakers will address a wide range of themes connecting fashion, clothing, style and the body to psychoanalysis, creativity and unconscious emotional life. The conference will also explore the largely neglected role of fashion in clinical and mental health settings – aiming to address the many idiosyncrasies, taboos and paradoxes involved.
Is Psychoanalysis a Jewish Science?
Panel discussion: Joseph Berke, Stephen Frosh, Tali Loewenthal and Anthony Stadlen
Author’s Talk: Eric Smadja
In Freud and Culture, we explore the representations of society and culture that Freud developed in the course of his work and we shall distinguish two periods.