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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Freud was famously ambivalent about philosophy.\nOn the one hand\, he poured scorn on academic philosophers who dismissed the notion of the unconscious mind on the pretext that it involved a logical contradiction – while on the other\, he stated proudly in his autobiography that after a long detour through medicine and psychotherapy he had finally returned to the philosophical preoccupations of his youth. \nThe course will examine the ways in which psychoanalysis and philosophy inform each other\, and intersect with each other – sometimes in mutual support and sometimes in sharp conflict. \nWe begin with the great philosophers of the past who influenced and inspired Freud and later psychoanalysts\, then\, in the second half of the course\, turn to contemporary philosophers who have reflected on psychoanalysis\, either critically\, or with the aim of clarifying the nature of its contribution to the understanding of the human condition. \nCourse Outline\nWeek 1: Introduction\nFreud’s study of philosophy as an undergraduate. The deep philosophical background to the emergence of psychoanalysis: the Enlightenment vision vs Romanticism. \nWeek 2: Schopenhauer\nThe formative influence on Freud’s thinking of the philosophy of Schopenhauer. ‘The World as Will and Representation’. \nWeek 3: Nietzsche\nAnticipations of psychoanalysis in the philosophy of Nietzsche. Freud and Jung and their different relationships to Nietzsche. Psychoanalysing philosophy. \nWeek 4: Plato\n‘Eros’ in Plato and Freud. Freud’s view of homosexuality and Plato’s philosophy. Plato’s ‘Symposium’. Freud between Plato and Nietzsche. \nWeek 5: Spinoza\nSometimes referred to as ‘the philosopher of psychoanalysis’\, we will examine Spinoza’s understanding of the mind/body relationship\, and his views on freedom and happiness. Spinoza’s ‘Ethics’ \nWeek 6: Popper and Grunbaum\nThe 20th century debate over the scientific status of psychoanalysis. Grunbaum’s ‘The Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis’ \nWeek 7: Ricoeur and Habermas\nThe debate over the interpretation of psychoanalysis as hermeneutics. Ricoeur’s ‘Freud and Philosophy’ \nWeek 8: Levinas and Buber\nPsychoanalysis and the philosophy of the ethical relation to the other. Levinas’ ‘Totality and Infinity’ and Buber’s ‘I and Thou’ \nWeek 9: Marcuse and Girard\nPhilosophical responses to Freud’s analysis of society. Marcuse’s ‘Eros and Civilisation’ and Girard’s ‘Violence and the Sacred’. Freud and violence. \nWeek 10: Foucault\nFoucault’s earlier view of psychoanalysis in ‘Madness and Civilisation’\, and his later view in ‘History of Sexuality\, vol 1’. \nWeek 11: Lacan\nLacan’s appropriation of philosophy for the ends of psychoanalysis. Hegel\, Heidegger and Freud\, according to Lacan. \nWeek 12: Derrida\nDerrida’s relation to psychoanalysis. Derrida vs Lacan. Derrida in the Freud archives: ‘Archive Fever’ \nCourse tutor\nKeith Barrett BA PhD – having received his PhD from the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London\, Dr Barrett specialises in both philosophy and psychoanalysis and has taught at several leading institutions\, including Imperial College and Birkbeck College. \nRecommended Reading\nGomez\, L. ‘The Freud Wars: an introduction to the philosophy of psychoanalysis’ (Routledge 2005) \nRicoeur\, P. ‘On Psychoanalysis’ (Polity 2012) \nOrange\, D.M. ‘Thinking for clinicians: philosophical resources for contemporary psychoanalysis and the humanistic psychotherapies’ (Routledge 2010) \nBraddock\, L. ‘The academic face of psychoanalysis: papers in philosophy\, the & Lacewing\, M. (Eds) the humanities and the British clinical tradition’ (Routledge 2007) \nCavell\, M. ‘Becoming a subject: reflections in philosophy and psychoanalysis’ (Oxford UP 2006) \nTauber\, A. ‘Freud\, the reluctant philosopher’ (Princeton U.P. 2010) \nSeung\, T.K. ‘Nietzsche’s epic of the soul: Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ (Lexington Books 2005) \nChapelle\, D. Nietzsche and psychoanalysis’ (SUNY Press 1993) \nDella Rocca\, M. ‘Spinoza’ (Routledge 2008) \nJanaway\, C. ‘Schopenhauer’ (Oxford U.P. 1994) \nBeck\, M.C. ‘The quest for wisdom in Plato and Carl Jung: a comparative study of the healers of the soul’ (Edwin Mellen Press 2008) \nGrunbaum\, A. ‘The Foundations of psychoanalysis: A philosophical Critique’ (U of California P 1984) \nHabermas\, J. ‘Knowledge and Human Interests’ (Heineman 1972) \nMills\, J. (Ed) ‘Rereading Freud: psychoanalysis through philosophy’ (SUNY Press 2004) \nFrie\, R. ‘Subjectivity and intersubjectivity in modern philosophy and psychoanalysis: a study of Sartre\, Binswanger\, Lacan and Habermas’ (Rowman & Littlefield 1997) \n
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SUMMARY:A Weekend of Discontent
DESCRIPTION:Saturday 23 June: 12pm-5pm\nSunday 24 June: 12pm-6pm \nTickets are for general admission. Events will be taking place throughout the museum over the course of the weekend. \nInspired by art historian Kenneth Clark’s documentary series of the 1960s\, the recent BBC Civilisations programmes told a story of beauty\, diversity\, creativity and achievement from cultures across the world and throughout history. \nBut there is another story of ‘civilisations’ which is about the cost of civilisation on the lives of those who inhabit them. This is the collective human condition that Freud explores in his book Civilisation and its Discontents (1930)\, which forms the inspiration behind ‘A Weekend of Discontent’ at the Freud Museum. \nAcademics and psychotherapists\, poets and performers will challenge conventional wisdom by engaging with Freud’s landmark study to ponder some of the difficult questions it raises and investigate the relevance of Freud’s views to our troubled times. \nWhat are the discontents of ‘civilised’ life today? \n  \nProgramme\nDownload the full programme (PDF) here. \nSpeakers’ Biographies\nSaturday \nLisa Appignanesi is visiting Professor in Literature and Medical Humanities at King’s College London and Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. A novelist and writer\, she is former chair of the Freud Museum and a former deputy director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. She is the author of many books\, fiction and non-fiction\, including The Things We Do for Love (a novel\, 1997)\, Freud’s Women (with John Forrester\, 1992) and Mad\, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present (2008). Her most recent books are All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion (2011) and Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness (2014) She was elected Chair of the Royal Society of Literature in 2016 and is the Chair of the Man Booker International Prize 2018. She was for many years Chair of the Freud Museum London and President of English PEN. \nCanon Dr Giles Fraser is the priest in charge of St Mary\, Newington. He is a journalist and broadcaster. He was previously Canon Chancellor at St Paul’s Cathedral and a lecturer in philosophy at Wadham College\, Oxford. \nStephan Feuchtwang is an emeritus professor of the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He has been engaged in research on popular religion and politics in mainland China and Taiwan since 1966\, resulting in a number of publications on charisma\, place\, temples and festivals\, and civil society. He has recently been engaged in a comparative project exploring the theme of the recognition of catastrophic loss\, including the loss of archive and recall\, which in Chinese cosmology and possibly elsewhere is pre-figured in the category of ghosts. Most recently he has been pursuing a project on the comparison of civilisations and empires. \nClaudia Bernard is Professor of Social Work and Head of Postgraduate Research in the Department of Social\, Therapeutic and Community Studies at Goldsmiths\, University of London. Her research interests  lie in the areas of social work with children and families\, gender-based violence\, critical race theory\, equalities and social justice. She has written widely on these topics\, including a book entitled Constructing Lived Experiences: Representations of Black Mothers in Child Sexual Abuse Discourses (2nd Edition\, Routledge\, 2017)\, and an edited collection with Perlita Harris\, entitled Safeguarding Black Children: Good Practice in Child Protection (Jessica Kingsley Publishers\, 2016). She is currently writing a book entitled Intersectionality for Social Workers: Theory and Practice for a Super-Diverse Society\, to be published by Routledge in 2019. \nAaron Balick PhD is a psychotherapist\, cultural theorist and author applying ideas from depth psychology to culture and technology. He is an honorary senior lecturer at the Department for Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex (UK). His books include The Psychodynamics of Social Networking: connected-up instantaneous culture and the self and the illustrated children’s self-help book Keep Your Cool: how to deal with life’s worries and stress.  The Little Book of Calm: tame your anxieties\, face your fears\, and live free\, was released in January of 2018. Aaron is the director of Stillpoint Spaces\, a psychology\, co-working\, therapy\, and events hub in London. \nSunday \nFabian Peake is an artist and writer living and working in London. He has shown his paintings in the U.K. and internationally\, including the U.S.A.\, Mexico\, Europe and China. His painting and poetry are closely linked in the way that they are assembled – observation of the world around sparking ideas in both pursuits. \nHe is particularly interested in the conflicts that can occur when diverse images and ideas are combined in the same space – the canvas or the page. \nFabian Peake taught painting for many years in the U.K. and gave lectures in the U.S.A. and Mexico. He has published poems and articles in journals\, magazines and newspapers. He published his first collection of poems a few years ago called ‘Loose Monk’. At the moment he is working on a commission for a war memorial at a London station. \nMichelle Fisher is a writer and performer from Glasgow\, currently based in London. She was a finalist in Words First; a national collaborative project between BBC Radio 1xtra and the Roundhouse. She has supported some of the UK’s top performers including Kate Tempest\, Salena Godden\, Hollie McNish\, Elvis McGonagall and Luke Wright and was a Resident Artist at the Roundhouse 2017/18. Her work explores wider societal issues\, such as class and poverty\, and how these affect our every day lives. She had been commissioned by institutions such as BBC and Huffington Post\, and has performed across the UK\, from Aberdeen to Bournemouth. \nMarika Mckennell is a London based actor\, poet and playwright who works in a pupil referral unit in Hackney​. She graduated from Cambridge University in 2014 and has written shows for Camden People’s Theatre\, Etcetera Theatre\, Old Red Lion and The Roundhouse. Marika has performed her poetry at Bestival and Nozstock Festivals\, Edinburgh Fringe\, Sky Garden\, Shaftesbury Theatre\, and The Royal Court in the Open Court Festival. She was a member of the Royal Court Playwriting Group in 2016 and a Resident Artist at The Roundhouse 2017/18. Her solo poetry and theatre show ITCH\, loosely based on stories gathered from old people’s centres and her community work in Hackney and Tottenham\, will be performed at the Roundhouse on the 26th June. \nSam Berkson\, aka ‘Angry Sam’\, has been hosting and promoting live poetry events with Hammer & Tongue for ten years. He has won slams\, performed in three continents and published two books of poetry with Influx Press. His debut\, ‘Life in Transit’ was described as “a highlight of 2012” by the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher. He followed this with a commission for Fishbar photogallery of poems written around Dalston’s Ridley Road Market\, composing the text of Lorenzo Vitturi’s award winning photobook\, Dalston Anatomy. \nHis most recent collection\, Settled Wanderers\, records his experience living on the Western Saharan refugee camps and contains the first English translations of Saharawi poetry. Poet Chris Searle\, writing in the journal Race & Class\, said that the “poems carry a particular kind of powerful witness in their lyrical solidarity. They are narratives of empathy with the lives of people he encountered”. \nHe works as a teacher in an alternative provision school and has recently returned from solidarity work with refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos. \nI have always found Sam’s dedication to poetry inspiring. He has the rare gift of being informed and intelligent without being condescending. He is a good poet\, a poet in the true sense of the word.”– Kate Tempest\, poet \nSupported by the Art Fund\nPart of the BBC Civilisations Festival \n \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/a-weekend-of-discontent/
LOCATION:20 Maresfield Gardens\, London\, NW3 5SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Performance,Talks
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SUMMARY:Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
DESCRIPTION:For the discontent of our times we propose a marathon reading of Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.\nFirst published in 1921\, the text raises questions about the role of the leader today\, tribalism\, the triumph of modern masses\, and what separates the individual from his or her subjectivity and lived history. \nThis event will breathe fresh life into this classic text and help both readers and listeners to think about our own era in the beautiful context of Freud’s final home on the 80th anniversary of his arrival in London. \nThe event is part of the ‘Weekend of Discontent’ at the Freud Museum. It is free with admission on a first come\, first served basis. If you prefer\, please buy a ticket for the whole weekend HERE. There are no specific tickets and audience members can come and go as they please. This is a staged reading and interactive performance. \nReading: 1pm – 4:30pm \nDiscussion: 4:30pm – 6pm \nReaders include:\nJanet Haney\, event coordinator\, Laboratory for Lacanian Politics UK \nSophia Berouka\, Laboratory for Lacanian Politics UK \nSue Blundell\, playwright \nFaisal Bokhammas\, Birkbeck\, University of London \nHoward Britton\, economist \nMarie-Hélène Brousse\, psychoanalyst\, editor of The Lacanian Review \nBernard Burgoyne\, psychoanalyst\, mathematician \nVincent Dachy\, psychoanalyst\, scribbler and resolute amateur \nFrancine Danniau\, psychoanalyst\, writer\, Belgium \nPaul Dineen\, actor \nPhilip Dravers\, Chair\, London Society NLS \nAlasdair Duncan\, autism support worker \nJeff Evans\, statistician \nStephen Frosh\, Birkbeck\, University of London \nNancy Gillespie\, Lacanian Compass\, NYC \nJohn Haney\, writer\, co-curator\, PoetrySlabs \nEarl Hopper\, group analyst \nVen. Julian Hubbard\, Director of Ministry for the Church of England \nMichele Julien\, Laboratory for Lacanian Politics UK \nJoan Raphael-Leff\, psychoanalyst\, Anna Freud Centre \nRoger Litten\, Director\, Laboratory for Lacanian Politics UK \nHenrik Lynggaard\, clinical psychologist\, systemic psychotherapist \nMax Maher\, Essex University \nAino-Marjatta Mäki\, Kingston University \nPeggy Papada\, clinical psychologist\, practicing analyst\, former dancer \nIvan Ward\, Freud Museum \nScott Wilson\, Kingston University \nBogdan Wolf\, Laboratory for Lacanian Politics UK \nColin Wright\, Nottingham University \nAlejandro Sessa\, accueillant\, Le Courtil\, Belgium \nAnthony Stadlen\, psychoanalyst\, daseinsanalyst \nLaura Tarsia\, psychoanalyst \nPatricia Tassara\, psychoanalyst\, Spain \n
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED 'Avoiding the Object' with artist Cornelia Parker\, O.B.E.
DESCRIPTION:We are very sorry to announce that due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been cancelled.\nThe third in the series of talks ‘On Loss and Creativity’\, which coincide with the exhibition Breathe by artists Fay Ballard and Judy Goldhill.\n\n“I resurrect things that have been killed off… My work is all about the potential of materials — even when it looks like they’ve lost all possibilities.”\nCornelia Parker \n\nCornelia Parker is well known for her large scale\, often site-specific\, installations. Her engagement with the fragility of existence and the transformation of matter is exemplified in two key works: Dark Matter\, a cartoon-like reconstruction of an exploded army shed\, and Heart of Darkness\, the formal arrangement of charred remains from a forest fire. Through a combination of visual and verbal allusions her work triggers cultural metaphors and personal associations\, which allow the viewer to witness the transformation of the most ordinary objects into something compelling and extraordinary. \nIn 1997 she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize and in 2010 she was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts and became an O.B.E. Her work is held in numerous collections worldwide including Tate\, London; British Council\, London; Museum of Modern Art\, New York; and the Yale Center for British Art\, Connecticut. She was made the UK’s official Election Artist for the 2017 General Election. \nThe series will be chaired by Jon Stokes\, Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist\, Senior Fellow Oxford University; former Chair\, Adult Department Tavistock Clinic. \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/avoiding-the-object-with-artist-cornelia-parker/
LOCATION:20 Maresfield Gardens\, London\, NW3 5SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Director's Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join Freud Museum Director\, Carol Seigel\, for a tour of Sigmund Freud’s home with its unique collections\, and learn more about his last year spent in this house after fleeing from Nazi occupied Vienna. \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/directors-tour-3/
LOCATION:20 Maresfield Gardens\, London\, NW3 5SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Tours
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis and Religion: Freud\, Jung\, Kristeva
DESCRIPTION:Freud is famous for portraying religion as a collective neurosis of mankind.\nHe argued that religious beliefs give expression to wish-fulfilling illusions\, serving the immature emotional needs of the child living on within the adult. \nSuch illusions – he sternly maintained – should be cast aside and replaced by ideas corresponding to reality – namely\, the materialistic world view that emerges gradually but inescapably from the cumulative process of scientific observation. \nThis is one side of Freud – expressing his self-image as an ‘Enlightenment philosophe’ (in Peter Gay’s accurate phrase). But there is another side to Freud – unfortunately less widely known – for in the later works he develops a subtle and complex theory of society\, in which religion plays a much more positive – even vital – role. Seen from this perspective\, religion may be regarded as necessary for our psychological well-being – even for the survival of human kind. \nWe will explore a range of psychoanalytic interpretations of religion\, examining different views of its function and significance in the lives of human beings. \nCourse outline:\nSession 1:\nWe will engage with the full range of Freud’s subtle and insightful thoughts on the nature of religion – and consider his specific observations on the character of particular religions. \n  \nSession 2:\nWe will examine Jung’s philosophical critique of Freud\, and his view of religious experience as a manifestation of latent structures of the collective unconscious – structures modern people have become estranged from\, but with which they need to re-connect to access the living symbols that help human beings find meaning and direction in their lives. \n  \nSession 3:\nWe will explore Julia Kristeva’s brilliant and profound post-Lacanian theorizing in which religion performs the vital cultural function of articulating the ‘semiotic’ – a function whose atrophy in the contemporary West underlies the nihilism of modernity. We will consider her notions of the ‘semiotic’ and the ‘symbolic’\, and her interpretation of religion as enabling the semiotic to take on symbolic form in discourses of love\, loss and abjection. \n  \nTutor: Keith Barrett BA PhD\nHaving received his PhD from the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London\, Dr Barrett specialises in both philosophy and psychoanalysis and has taught at several leading institutions\, including Imperial College and Birkbeck College. \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/psychoanalysis-and-religion/
LOCATION:20 Maresfield Gardens\, London\, NW3 5SX\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Fragile Phallus
DESCRIPTION:\nThe latest string of sexual assault and harassment scandals invites critical reflection into the structure of masculinity.\nWhile much of the media focus has been on abuses of power\, popular responses such as the #MeToo movement have emphasised the everydayness of sexual harassment\, shifting the focus to masculinity as such. \nPsychoanalysis has long held that masculinity is not a biological given\, nor is it simply the sum total of patriarchal values operating on an individual. Rather\, it is characterised by a peculiar\, fraught and anxious relation to the psychical emblem of the ‘phallus’. \nHow might psychoanalysis enrich popular notions of ‘fragile’ and ‘toxic’ masculinity?\nThis conference brings together perspectives from psychoanalysis and beyond to bring out some of these troubling (and troubled) dimensions of the subjective structure popularly known as ‘masculinity’. \nSpeakers & Titles\nDorothée Bonnigal-Katz\nFrom Machismo to Medusa: The Question of Masculinity and Maternal Omnipotence \nCalum Neill\nThe Only Good Father \n\n\nDany Nobus\nPerforming Psychoanalysis: Arrectness\, Decubitus and the Vicissitudes of Phallic Space \nJordan Osserman\nIs the Phallus Uncut? On Male Circumcision and ‘Intactivism’ \nRenata Salecl\nThe Fear of Being Ignored: From Incel to Imposters \nIvan Ward\nThe Tory Power Stance: A Developmental Perspective \n\n\nAbstracts\n\nDorothée Bonnigal-Katz\nFrom Machismo to Medusa: The Question of Masculinity and Maternal Omnipotence\nThis paper looks for the roots of masculinity in maternal omnipotence and in the mirage of wholeness and plenitude of primary narcissism. A bit of a reaction formation\, masculinity could be read as the construct erected against the tyranny of the phallic mother\, an attempt to appropriate her murderous power. But the horror of castration persists all the same and the hollow phallus of masculinity ultimately is its best poster boy. Masculinity and maternal omnipotence will be examined across a variety of cultural and mythological references and an array of clinical situations including fetishism\, hysteria and psychosis. \nCalum Neill\nThe Only Good Father\nIn unravelling the question of sexual difference and the (non-)relation between the sexes\, Jacques Lacan alludes to\, draws on and restages Freud’s infamous myth of the primal horde. Core to this myth is\, of course\, the figure of the father. The contemporary suspicion of a crisis in masculinity – variously linked to a toxic (sexual) aggression\, a de-masculisation\, dislocation and failure of identity – would suggest that the myth has lost its relevance and its explanatory value. This paper will revisit Lacan’s reading of the myth\, drawing on two contemporary cinematic examples; Xavier Legrand’s Custody and Antony and Joe Russo’s Avengers: Infinity War. The films might be understood to each present something of the fantasy of masculinity\, its crisis and the concerns these might raise. \n\n\nDany Nobus\nPerforming Psychoanalysis: Arrectness\, Decubitus and the Vicissitudes of Phallic Space\nDrawing on Henri Lefebvre’s distinction between phallic (masculine) and uterine (feminine) space\, I shall argue in this paper that the spatial arrangements in which a psychoanalytic process unfolds\, and which have hardly changed over the past 130 years\, not only establish a necessary power relationship between the analyst and the analysand\, but also constitute the physical reflection of a problematic dialectic within the latter’s psychic space. The reconstruction of this dialectic towards a certain resolution (sublation) is conditioned by a process of de-phallicisation\, whereby the transfiguration of psychic space is equally reflected in the re-arrangement of the physical space. \nJordan Osserman\nIs the Phallus Uncut? On Male Circumcision and ‘Intactivism’\nFemale circumcision (also known as ‘FGM’) has been debated and opposed by feminists\, policymakers\, and the public at large for a long time. More recently\, a movement opposed to male circumcision\, which goes under the banner of ‘intactivism’\, has been gathering steam. Based initially in the United States\, many intactivists are men who were circumcised at birth and now attribute a range of psychological and sexual ailments to the procedure. They often portray themselves as victims of feminist ideology\, aligning themselves with the ‘men’s rights movement’. Some attempt ‘foreskin restoration’ to retrieve\, or regrow\, the part of their penis they feel to have traumatically lost.\nThe term ‘intactivist’ invites psychoanalytic criticism\, as it references that wish for ‘intactness’ that psychoanalysis alleges to be a defensive fantasy against the subject’s foundational fracture — the wish to ‘restore’ a prelapsarian wholeness that never actually existed. How can psychoanalysis help us understand the psychical dimensions of such stances on male circumcision? And what might the seemingly fringe concerns of intactivists reveal about the nature of masculinity as such? \nRenata Salecl\nThe Fear of Being Ignored: From Incel to Imposters\nThis lecture will address the question of masculinity in light of neoliberal ideology of success and failure. First\, it will question why it seems to be harder for men to deal with sexual rejection and lack of social recognition. And second\, it will look at violence against women in the context of the neoliberal ideals of masculinity. \nIvan Ward\nThe Tory Power Stance: A Developmental Perspective\nWhether adopted by a man or woman\, the ‘Tory Power Stance’\, as it has been dubbed\, is a pose designed to project masculine power and authority. Various hypotheses have been offered as to the origin of the pose and what it might signify. In this paper I will offer an alternative view. \nSpeakers’ biographies\n\nDorothée Bonnigal-Katz is a psychoanalyst and a translator. She is a member of the SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and one of the editors of Sitegeist: A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. She is the founder of the Psychosis Therapy Project. She has translated a number of psychoanalytic works including Dominique Scarfone’s Laplanche: An Introduction (2015) and she translates for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis on a regular basis. \nCalum Neill is Associate Professor of Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory at Edinburgh Napier University. He is the editor of The Palgrave Lacan Series and co-editor of the forthcoming three volume set\, Reading Lacan’s Ecrits. He is the author of Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity (Palgrave\, 2014)\, Ethics and Psychology: Beyond Codes of Practice (Routledge\, 2016) and Jacques Lacan: The Basics (Routledge\, 2019). \nDany Nobus is Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology at Brunel University London. He is also a clinical psychologist\, psychoanalytic psychotherapist\, and former Chair of the Freud Museum London. His main research interests are the history\, theory and practice of psychoanalysis\, the history of psychiatry\, and the intersections between psychoanalysis\, philosophy and the arts. In 2017\, he was awarded the Sarton medal of the University of Ghent for his outstanding contributions to the history of psychoanalysis. His latest book in English is The Law of Desire: On Lacan’s “Kant with Sade” (Palgrave 2017). \nJordan Osserman completed his PhD in Gender Studies and Psychoanalysis at University College in London in 2017. His dissertation\, entitled ‘On the Foreskin Question’\, drew on psychoanalysis and philosophy to examine the surprisingly pivotal role of stances towards male circumcision in Christianity\, medicine\, and politics. His work has been published in Transgender Studies Quarterly and Blunderbuss Magazine\, and he is a host on the podcast New Books in Psychoanalysis. \nRenata Salecl –  TBA \nIvan Ward is Deputy Director and Head of Learning at the Freud Museum London and manager of the museum’s conference programme. He is the author of a number of books and papers on psychoanalytic theory and on the applications of psychoanalysis to social and cultural issues. His latest publication is ‘Parsifal as Castration Drama’ (2017) in a special issue of The Wagner Journal based on a conference organised by the Freud Museum in 2016. \n\n\n\n  \nImage: ‘Banana Split’ by Kristen Meyer \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/the-fragile-phallus/
LOCATION:12 Maresfield Gardens\, London\, NW3 5SU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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SUMMARY:First Sunday House Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join Anne Hollinger for a tour of Freud’s final home.\nThe tour will introduce visitors to the house\, revealing curious stories behind the objects in Freud’s collection and what they can tell us about his life and work. \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/first-sunday-house-tour-3/
LOCATION:20 Maresfield Gardens\, London\, NW3 5SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Tours
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC+0:20180703T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC+0:20180703T203000
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SUMMARY:'Endings\, Loss and Grief' with Julian Barnes
DESCRIPTION:The final event in the series of talks ‘On Loss and Creativity’\, which coincide with the exhibition Breathe by artists Fay Ballard and Judy Goldhill.\nJulian Barnes – Winner of 2011 Man Booker Prize and author of Nothing to Be Frightened Of – in conversation with Jon Stokes \nJulian Barnes has written movingly about his personal experiences of loss and grief in Levels of Life and in Nothing to Be Frightened Of\, a memoir on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. He will talk about his attitude to death and what brought him to write these two books. \n\n“He reveals crystalline truths that have taken a lifetime to harden”\nNew York Times \n\nBarnes’ writing has earned him considerable respect as an author who deals with the themes of history\, reality\, truth and love. He has received several awards and honours for his writing\, including the 2011 Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending. Three other of his novels were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize – Flaubert’s Parrot\, England\, England and Arthur & George. Garrison Keillor described Nothing to be Frightened Of as “a beautiful and funny book\, still booming in my head.” \nThe series will be chaired by Jon Stokes\, Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist\, Senior Fellow Oxford University; former Chair\, Adult Department Tavistock Clinic. \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/endings-loss-and-grief/
LOCATION:20 Maresfield Gardens\, London\, NW3 5SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC+1:20180708T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC+1:20180708T153000
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SUMMARY:Dreams: The Unconscious Revealed
DESCRIPTION:This short introductory workshop is intended to provide a brief overview of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dreams using your own dream as a vehicle to illustrate some of his key ideas and concepts.\nDreams are both mysterious and mundane: we all dream\, and most dreams are unremarkable and forgotten almost immediately on waking. However\, there are some dreams that conjure extraordinary visions\, confusing emotions and puzzling events.  The earliest human civilisations believed that dreams were of great significance and contained messages from the spirit world which could only be understood by skilled interpreters. Dream books\, containing images and their supposed meanings\, existed in ancient Egypt as early as 2000 BCE. Through the ages\, dreams have remained a constant source of fascination for human beings\, with many societies believing that they bring visions of the future\, a means of moral self-improvement or direct messages from a higher being. \nSigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1899 (although dated 1900) in which he set out his theory that dreams are a form of wish fulfilment\, where the forbidden\, unconscious desires of the id find expression in harmless dream images\, which are acceptable to the ego and superego and enable us to stay asleep.  In this one-hour workshop\, we will exchange ideas about dreams and reflect on how Freud’s theory could be applied to your own experience of dreaming. \nPlease note:\nYou will not undergo any form of dream analysis; any ideas raised will be purely speculative and not designed to be a substitute for analysis with a qualified professional. \nTickets include admission to the Museum. \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/dreams-the-unconscious-revealed/
LOCATION:20 Maresfield Gardens\, London\, NW3 5SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC+0:20180709T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC+0:20180709T203000
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SUMMARY:The Place of Breath in Cinema
DESCRIPTION:This talk will consider a cultural history of breath in art and moving image studies\, followed by a reflection on the particular significance of breath\, wind and air in the contemporary film experience.\nFrom Henry Gray’s beautiful scientific illustrations of the lungs in his anatomical study of the human body to rather more abstract\, evocative images of stillness and silence in the films of Chantal Akerman and Lars von Trier\, the foregrounding of the breathing body\, air and other forms of airy presences (dust\, mist\, fog) have long been the subject of Davina Quinlivan’s groundbreaking research into the place of breath in cinema. \nDavina Quinlivan is the author of The Place of Breath in Cinema (EUP\, 2014) and Filming the Body in Crisis: Trauma\, Healing and Hopefulness (Palgrave: 2015)\, and a Senior Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies at Kingston School of Art\, Kingston University \nReviews of The Place of Breath in Cinema:\nAssociated with the soul\, animating the lungs\, breath is that invisible and usually intangible entity that makes its passage known sonically. Davina Quinlivan demonstrates with precision\, grace\, and acute attention to cinematic sound how the cinema can embody both the environments we inhale and the interiorities we exhale.\nDr Laura U. Marks\, Simon Fraser University\, Vancouver \n  \nDavina Quinlivan’s distinctive volume newly attends to the body in cinema. With infinite delicacy\, her readings of recent films attach breathing and vision\, opening vivid questions of spatiality\, contemplation\, invisibility\, and rhythm.\nEmma Wilson\, University of Cambridge \nPart of a series of event which coincide with Breathe\, an exhibition of works by Fay Ballard and Judy Goldhill on display at the Museum 16 May – 15 July 2018. \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/the-place-of-breath-in-cinema/
LOCATION:20 Maresfield Gardens\, London\, NW3 5SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC+1:20180714T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC+1:20180721T170000
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SUMMARY:PROJECTIONS: Science Fiction Cinema - Outer Space as Inner Space
DESCRIPTION:Science fiction films portray phenomena that reach beyond the provable realms of mainstream science\, featuring artificial intelligence\, alien worlds\, extrasensory perception\, advanced technology and intergalactic travel. Such stories sometimes produce political or social commentary\, expressing complex philosophical concerns related to the human condition. \nDepicting endless possibilities in the vastness of the cosmos\, science fiction is a unique genre in cinema\, revealing insights about our collective unconscious and inner worlds. In this 2-day course\, we will regard outer space as a grand metaphor for the human psyche\, relying on psychoanalysis as the theoretical framework to uncover hidden emotional activity manifested in symbolic form. \nSigmund Freud believed that\, because of the unconscious\, we are aliens to ourselves. Beneath the threshold of awareness\, there are irrational fears\, buried memories\, conflicting desires and secret dimensions to ourselves that we would rather not confront at an individual level and in wider society. This might explain the tendency in science fiction cinema to convey extraterrestrial lifeforms as hostile\, invading and threatening the human species – it is simply a manifestation in outer space of an internal perception. The process of creating and watching these visual metaphors involves catharsis\, releasing psychic tension. \n  \nSee below for the list of films to be interpreted. Advance viewing is optional\, select scenes and montages will be shown on the day. \n  \n—————————————— \n  \nTIMETABLE (Saturdays 14 July and 21 July) \n  \n9.30am – open \n10am – first session \n12pm – lunch break \n12.45pm – second session \n2.45pm – tea break \n3pm – third session \n5pm – finish \n  \n—————————————— \n  \nDAY 1 TOPICS \n  \nTopography: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)\, Contact (1997) \n  \nIdentity: Another Earth (2011)\, AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001) \n  \nSociety: Cube (1997)\, The Matrix (1999) \n  \n—————————————— \n  \nDAY 2 TOPICS \n  \nExtraterrestrials: Alien (1979)\, Event Horizon (1997) \n  \nOntology: Coherence (2013)\, Ex Machina (2015) \n  \nTranscendence: The Signal\, (2014) Lucy (2014) \n  \n—————————————— \n  \nTea and coffee will be provided during both breaks. \nPlease note: there is no cafe on site\, however\, you are welcome to bring your own lunch\, which can be consumed in the classroom\, or the Museum garden if the weather is fine. \nPROJECTIONS is psychoanalysis for film interpretation. PROJECTIONS empowers film spectators to express subjective associations they consider to be meaningful. Expertise in psychoanalytic theory is not necessary – the only prerequisite is the desire to enter and inhabit the imaginary world of film\, which is itself a psychoanalytic act. MARY WILD\, a Freudian cinephile from Montreal\, is the creator of PROJECTIONS. \n  \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/projections-science-fiction-cinema-outer-space-as-inner-space/
LOCATION:20 Maresfield Gardens\, London\, NW3 5SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Courses
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DTEND;TZID=UTC+1:20180715T153000
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SUMMARY:Relationships: An Introduction to Transactional Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Join Laura Smith for a short workshop which will provide a basic introduction to Transactional Analysis (TA).\nDeveloped by psychiatrist Eric Berne in the 1950s\, TA is a form of psychoanalytic theory and type of therapy which Berne described as both neo- and extra-Freudian.  TA focuses on the characteristics of social interactions and how internal ego states determine how effectively we communicate with others. \nIn this one-hour workshop\, we will explore how communication is helped or hindered by complementary and crossed transactions and how psychological game-playing is widespread in many of our relationships and social situations. \nTickets include admission to the Museum. \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/relationships-an-introduction-to-transactional-analysis/
LOCATION:20 Maresfield Gardens\, London\, NW3 5SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC+1:20180718T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC+1:20180723T170000
DTSTAMP:20180623T202131
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SUMMARY:A Mile in My Shoes
DESCRIPTION:A Mile in My Shoes invites visitors to go on a physical and empathetic journey by walking a mile in someone else’s shoes – literally – while listening to their story. \nThe Empathy Museum’s most recent version of A Mile in My Shoes\, brings together a collection of new audio stories shared by refugees and migrants who have made London their home. Come and experience a rich diversity of voices\, from a Nigerian barber who arrived 8 years ago\, to a Jamaican war veteran and calypso star who came to London in 1933. All the stories have been expertly recorded and produced by a professional audio producer \nCome and walk a mile in someone else’s shoes – literally – while listening to their story. \nPart of an exciting series of events which coincide with Leaving Today: the Freuds in Exile 1938\, on display from 18 July – 30 September 2018.  \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/a-mile-in-my-shoes/
CATEGORIES:Activities
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SUMMARY:Lacan/Foucault: Author\, Subject\, Vitalism/Materialism
DESCRIPTION:Lacan held Foucault’s works in high esteem.\nHe repeatedly refers to and comments on them in his seminars\, urging his audience to read them. Conversely\, throughout his oeuvre\, Foucault paid considerable attention to psychoanalysis. Although these exchanges are far from devoid of mutual criticism\, they also witness to a profound awareness that psychoanalysis is not merely an ‘anti-philosophy’ but an innovative praxis\, and that philosophy can only be renewed in dialogue with it. \nIn this one-day intensive course we will compare and contrast Lacan’s and Foucault’s respective stances on subjectivity. We will focus on their apparently convergent but also\, on close inspection\, fundamentally different critiques of the classical notion of the subject. \nFirst\, we will address Foucault’s notion of the subject as unveiled in his discussion of authorship – as elaborated in his 1969 seminal essay “What Is an Author?”. We will pay particular attention to the far from insignificant fact that\, in this context\, Foucault regards Freud as a “founder of discursivity”. Second\, we will dwell on Lacan’s comments on the Foucauldian notion of the author (made in Seminar XVI); we will also see how the Foucauldian notion of the author overlaps with the Lacanian subject of the unconscious. Third\, we will oppose Lacan’s and Foucault’s conclusions on the ontological status of the subject. \nOn the one hand\, for Foucault’s vitalist presuppositions determining “who is speaking” in the end no longer makes any difference. On the other hand\, for Lacan what materialistically matters in the human form of life\, or speaking being\, as highlighted by psychoanalysis is absolute difference. We will conclude by examining how this absolute difference amounts to the inextricability of subject and structure. \nThis one-day course will be followed later in the year by a one-day course on Lacan’s\, Foucault’s\, and Deleuze’s treatment of aesthetics with specific regard to the gaze and the baroque (30th September). \nReadings:\nSome prior knowledge of Lacan and Foucault is advisable but not necessary. \n\nFoucault\, ‘What is an Author?’\, in Aesthetics\, Method\, and Epistemology (New York: The New Press\, 1998)\nLacan\, Seminar XVI\, ‘From an Other to the other’ [any edition]\, lesson XII [especially first few pages on Foucault]\nChiesa\, Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan (Cambridge: MIT Press\, 2007)\, chapter II\, 2\nFoucault\, “Lacan\, le liberateur de la psychanalyse”\n\nProgramme:\n10.00am – first session\n12.00pm – lunch break\n12.45pm – second session\n14.45pm – tea break\n3.00 – third session\n5.00pm – finish \nCourse tutor: Lorenzo Chiesa\nLorenzo Chiesa is a philosopher who has published extensively on psychoanalysis. His works in this field include Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan (MIT Press\, 2007); Lacan and Philosophy: The New Generation (Re.press\, 2014); The Not-Two: Logic and God in Lacan (MIT Press\, 2016); and The Virtual Point of Freedom (Northwestern University Press\, 2016). He serves as director of the GSH – Genoa School of Humanities. Since 2014\, he has been Visiting Professor at the European University at St Petersburg and at the Freud’s Dream Museum of the same city. Previously\, he was Professor of Modern European Thought at the University of Kent\, where he founded and directed the Centre for Critical Thought. \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/lacan-foucault-author-subject-vitalism-materialism/
LOCATION:20 Maresfield Gardens\, London\, NW3 5SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Courses
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SUMMARY:Stress: External Threat or Internal Conflict?
DESCRIPTION:This short introductory workshop will briefly look at some of the causes of stress.\nIt will also examine how Freudian defence mechanisms protect the ego from experiencing anxiety and suggest some practical ways of reducing stress. \nStress is usually defined as the inability to cope with a perceived threat (real or imagined) to one’s mental\, physical and emotional well-being\, which results in a series of physiological responses. Approximately 85% of adults in the UK report regularly feeling stressed\, with over half stating that they are worried about the effect stress is having on their health. \nIn this one-hour workshop\, we will consider both external and internal causes of stress and anxiety. Sigmund Freud believed that when conflict between the id\, ego and superego leads to anxiety\, a range of unconscious defence mechanisms may be employed by the ego to help to deal with this conflict. However\, it was actually Anna Freud\, in her 1936 book “The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence”\, who described in detail the ego defences which had been previously outlined by her father. \nWe will conclude by looking at recent evidence and sharing ideas about the best ways of reducing stress. \nTickets include admission to the Museum. \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/stress-external-threat-or-internal-conflict/
LOCATION:20 Maresfield Gardens\, London\, NW3 5SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Activities,Talks
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DTEND;TZID=UTC+1:20180806T170000
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SUMMARY:Déjà Vu
DESCRIPTION:Dongyan Chen and Huiping Yang are concerned with the central theme of dreams and unconsciousness and their works show the influence of Sigmund Freud in different forms and mediums.\nDongyan Chen graduated from Central Saint Martins with BA(Hons) Fine Art degree. Her works are primarily concerned with the realm of the unconsciousness and dreams\, as well as the different processes to discover and articulate the hidden messages embedded in them. Through such practice\, she delves deeply into her mind with the least possible control exercised by reason to get closer to her true self. \nDongyan is interested in how texts\, images and sounds work together in montages as a process of remaking and reconstructing our memory\, approximating the way our dreams work. She engages with her own fragmented memories and creates new narratives from them—a process led by her instincts\, exempt from logical reasoning\, ostensible ideologies\, or moral concerns. Her videos aim to create an experience that can lead the audience into a dream-like world to provoke self-revelation. \nHuiping Yang graduated from Wimbledon College of Arts with a BA(Hons) Fine Art Painting degree.  She focuses on the Debordian notion of psychogeography combined with theory from Sigmund Freud on “Screen Memory” (1899) and “The Unconscious” (1915). Her work is developed from photomontage and collage as a visual representation of fragmented memories. The quality of collage and the process of collaging is a reference to uninhibited unconscious processes. \n“Screen Memory” is the Freudian term for a recollection that masks deeper\, psychologically significant memories. “Screen memories do not emerge into consciousness at the time of recall.”- Sigmund Freud\, (1899). According to Freud’s theory\, memories overlay and obscure each other.  People often deal with fragments of memories that have remained with them since their earliest childhood years. \nThe study of memory and the unconscious mind has helped her to develop her studio practice. The drawing series is the recollection of the collage she made. It focuses on the experience of reinterpretation about the made collage. The pencil marks which is not the conscious decision and the patterns on paper is like the message of losing information. The elements are fading and floating. \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/deja-vu/
LOCATION:20 Maresfield Gardens\, London\, NW3 5SX\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Screening: Vamik’s Room. Molly Castelloe
DESCRIPTION:Vamik’s Room is a documentary film about the life of Vamik Volkan\, a psychoanalyst born in Cyprus who has worked a lifetime around the globe bringing representatives from warring factions together for dialogue. The film dramatizes Vamik’s main ideas about group psychology\, tracing how he has helped heal conflict in traumatized regions including the Middle East\, Estonia and the Republic of Georgia. It illustrates the importance of adaptive mourning and how malignant leaders can mobilize shared memories of a past injury to catalyze a “time collapse” in the present that fuels genocidal acts of revenge. A central storyline concerns Vamik’s work with a refugee family forced from their home in Abkhazia and how he helped the grief-stricken community find hope in their new surroundings\, a dilapidated luxury hotel.  He returns years later where out of the ruins the people have built a room for him\, “Vamik’s room.” The film concludes by describing his recent diplomatic work with the International Dialogue Initiative\, which creates a reflective space for groups to communicate free from the distortions of historical trauma. \nMolly Castelloe is an American writer and artist.  She received a doctorate in Performance Studies at New York University with a focus on theater and psychoanalysis.  Molly has presented on the subjects of performance and applied psychoanalysis at national symposia including the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Her scholarly articles have appeared in international publications and refereed journals. Molly worked as an actress for many years in theater and independent film. VAMIK’S ROOM is the first documentary she has directed and produced. It garnered the Gradiva Award given by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. \n  \n“An enthralling portrait of a remarkable humanitarian who deploys a cosmopolitan psychoanalysis to give new language and cure to the quintessential ailment of our time– the alchemical role of individual\, ethnic\, and national narcissism in fostering hatred and sectarian violence.” \n~ Robert Stam\, PhD\, author and ​University Professor\, New York University \n“One can see in this film there is a special aura around this man who has managed to see and listen to the worst of humanity and bring faith and love to the saddest situation.” \n   ~Ann Bennett Mix\, Founder\, American WWII Orphans Network \n“Vamik Volkan is a singular figure in psychoanalysis and far beyond. . . every diplomat and diplomat-in-training should see this film.” \n~ Howard Stein\, professor of Preventive Medicine\, Poet Laureate\, High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology \n
URL:https://www.freud.org.uk/event/screening-vamiks-room-molly-castelloe/
CATEGORIES:Activities,Talks
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