Hosted in various private residences and institutions, the series aims to develop new conceptual tools through a psychoanalytically oriented social psychology to re-describe social problems in Australia such as alienation and plastic surgery, desensitization in a culture oversaturated with sexual imagery, virtual social life in social media, racism, sexism, religious fundamentalism etc. The goal is to come up with more plausible ways of describing and thinking about social ills and to broaden the appeal of psychoanalysis in the Australian context. The meetings present an interview, either in person or via videoconference, with a local or international guest, followed by a group discussion.
Conversation with Joanne Faulkner about the Australian unconscious and (post) colonial past.
When: Friday 2 December, 2016
Joanne Faulkner is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of NSW. Her most recent book is Young and Free: [Post] colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory and History in Australia (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016). It examines the colonial imaginary in Australia through the persistent trope of lost, stolen, damaged and displaced childhood. She is also the author of Dead Letters to Nietzsche: Or the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy (Ohio UP, 2010), and The Importance of Being Innocent: Why We Worry About Children (Cambridge UP, 2011), and co-author (with Matthew Sharpe) of Understanding Psychoanalysis (Acumen, 2008).
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Conversation with Jim Hopkins on Racism and Group Psychology.
Where: Glebe Justice Centre
When: Saturday 7 May, 2016
Jim Hopkins is Reader Emeritus in Philosophy at King’s College and Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit of the Research Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at University College London. He was Kohut Visiting Professor of Social Thought at the University of Chicago for 2008. His main work has been on psychoanalysis, consciousness, Wittgenstein, and interpretation.
Neville Symington meets Jonathan Lear
Where: Sydney College of the Arts
When: 12 December, 2015
Neville Symington is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Sydney, Australia. He did his psychoanalytic training in London and is a Fellow of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. His books include The Analytic Experience, Emotion and Spirit, Narcissism: A New Theory, The Making of a Psychotherapist, The Spirit of Sanity, A Pattern of Madness, How to Choose a Psychotherapist, The Blind Man Sees, A Healing Conversation, Becoming a Person through Psycho-Analysis and The Psychology of the Person, and the co-authored (with Joan Symington) The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion. He also published the novel A Priest’s Affair and a book of poetry In-Gratitude and Other Poems. In 2007 he started a clinical organization called Psychotherapy with Psychotic Patients (PPP).
Conversation with Alenka Zupančič on Social Practices of Lying.
Thanks to the Philosophy Department, University of Sydney for hosting this event.
27 June, 2015
Conversation with Lynne Layton on Social Inequalities and Normative Unconscious Processes.
Thanks to Damien Freeman for hosting this event.
21 March, 2015
Conversation with Russell Grigg on Religious Fundamentalism.
Thanks to Ange Wayne for hosting this event.
11 October, 2014
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