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The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis - critical, reflective and imaginative thinking about psychoanalysis, philosophy and society.

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Death in psychoanalysis “The life drive is killing me” By Tute
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Applications now open for our next Introduction to Psychoanalysis course. Weekly seminars and experiential group London, October 2024 - June 2025 From Freud's plague to Jung's dreams via madness, Brexit and liberation the-site.org.uk/introductory…
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Devorah Baum, author of On Marriage, in conversation with @DrGuralnik for @mcnallyjackson! Watch the full book talk on #youtube. A compulsively readable, startling, and philosophically rich book, On Marriage is available at yalebooks.com. youtube.com/watch?v=MrBITG6h…
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“Christmas is, after all, a symbolic enactment of love, rebirth and, most of all, hope.” Mary Brownescombe Heller, Christmas Crackers on the NHS. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 1992 #Christmas #family #community #MerryChristmas
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The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the wake of Jean Laplanche a.co/d/07AWj4c #Amazon via @Amazon – at Manhattan, NY
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Psychoanalysis has always been cutting edge
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“Why War? A Psychoanalytic Enquiry” @FliFreud 8th Dec, 18:30-20:30 GMT On Zoom with John O’Donoghue @spirasi Jerry Fromm  @AustenRiggs Anouchka Grose @cfar1985 Jordan Osserman (Univ. of Essex, UK) @appi1appi @ICPmentalhealth @ifpponline eventbrite.ie/e/why-war-a-ps…
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[a] succession of phantasies … extends from a fragmented body-image to the assumption of the armor of an alienating identity J Lacan Ecrits
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for the @chronicle, I reviewed the perfect, posthumous introductory lectures to Freud from John Forrester and tried to think with him across time and space about the return to Freud. with thanks to @evankindley and Len for the commission and edits: chronicle.com/article/the-ol…
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HUSBAND / Sat 23rd Sept 7pm W/ psychoanalysts Francesca Joseph, Doug Gill & the filmmakers 💥🧠 "Genre-defying Freudian docudrama" Sunday Times eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scre… @sitepsych @cfar1985 @bbkpsychosocial @psychmag @The_IJP @Parapraxis_Mag @SotonEnglish @PsychologiesMag
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Fascinating and at times fiery exchange between Adam Phillips and Juliet Mitchell from back in the day (1999) about the nature of psychoanalysis. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00545c…
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Jacques Lacan’s Single Scoop of Desire
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Whilst there will be a recording, this is the last chance to get negative in the flesh.
David Ferraro Negativity in Psychoanalysis In Melbourne and by Zoom Monday 15 May Lacancircle.com.au/workshop-… @thepsychclinic
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Celebrate the launch of John Forrester’s 'Freud and Psychoanalysis: Six Introductory Lectures', with a panel discussion with Darian Leader, Josh Cohen & Lisa Appignanesi. Followed by a drinks reception in Sigmund Freud’s dining room. 19 May, book now! ow.ly/VjFk50NmvoI
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'Psychoanalysis & Philosophy: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society'. Explore the vision of human life that was opened up by Hegel & those who followed him, including Marx & Nietzsche, and trace its influence in psychoanalysis. Online course, 18-19 May. ow.ly/CTUr50NgBre
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‘Contradictory thoughts do not try to eliminate one another, but continue side by side, and often combine to form condensation products, as though no contradiction existed.’ Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams
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“They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game” ― R.D. Laing
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'Casual Violence: Mis-understanding, Misogyny, Adolescence'. This online talk, with Nilofer Kaul, is part of Women and Psychoanalysis - an ongoing series exploring psychoanalysis from a female gaze. 19 April, book now - ow.ly/fWBY50MOohe
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each other’s pain. A horrible kind of predestination hovers over each new attachment we form. ‘Only connect’, E. M. Forster proposed. ‘Only we can’t’, the psychoanalyst knows.” Janet Malcolm, Louise Bourgeois
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