J. G. Ballard and Psychoanalysis: A discussion between Mark Blacklock and Deborah Levy

J. G. Ballard and Psychoanalysis: A discussion between Mark Blacklock and Deborah Levy

To celebrate the launch of Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007, a new collection of writing by J. G. Ballard (published by The MIT Press,) the Freud Museum is delighted to welcome acclaimed novelist Deborah Levy and academic and writer Mark Blacklock in conversation at the Museum. They will be discussing all things Ballard and focusing in particular on how psychoanalysis shaped the ideas of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

SPEAKERS

Mark Blacklock is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of the cultural history The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension, and his most recent novel Hinton was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2021.

Deborah Levy is the author of several novels including August Blue, Hot Milk and Swimming Home, alongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed ‘living autobiography’ trilogy: Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and won the Prix Femina Etranger. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

TICKETS

Tickets include a welcome drink and book signing.

Freud Museum Members and Patrons receive 20% off the standard ticket price on all events, courses, conferences and On Demand programming.

Tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE

The purpose of this event is to raise funds for the Freud Museum London, which receives no regular public income.