2014/15

Michaelmas Term 2014 

Monday 29 September. Louise Gyler (Sydney Institute for Psychoanalysis): ‘Representing the Maternal Function: does it have subversive possibilities?’ Respondent: Janet Sayers (University of Kent). 

Monday 20 October. Elisa Galgut (University of Capetown): ‘The Marriage of Two Minds: Empathy, Mentalization and the Sonnet’. 

Monday 3 November. Barbara Gold Taylor (Queen Mary, University of London): ‘The Last Asylum’. 

Monday 17 November. Simon May (King’s College, London): ‘What is Love?’ 

Hilary Term 2015 

Monday 26 January. Michael Lacewing (Heythrop College, London): ‘Gratitude for life: A psychodynamic guide for non-believers’. 

Monday 9 February. Astrid Gessert (Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research): ‘Hysteria and obsession: A Lacanian perspective’. 

Monday 23 February. Lucia Conti (Middlesex University): ‘The Lacanian subject and the field of the Other’. 

Monday 2 March. Joel Backström (Åbo Akademi, Turku): ‘Love, fear and the mind’s moral dynamics: on how (not) to understand the “drives” and “ambivalence”’. 

Monday 9 March. Lesley Caldwell (University College, London): ‘Donald Winnicott, Melanie Klein and the shape of post-war British psychoanalysis’. 

Trinity Term 2015 

Monday 18 May. Alessandra Lemma (University College, London): The fate of the body in virtual space’.