2017/18

Michaelmas Term 2017 

Monday 30 October. Mark Stein (University of Leicester): ‘“Phantasy of Fusion” as a response to trauma: European leaders and the origins of the Eurozone crisis’. 

Monday 13 November. Janet Sayers (University of Kent): ‘Psychoanalysing social issues: Robert Still and the Imago Group’. 

Monday 27 November. Ian Klinke (University of Oxford): ‘Nuclear war, self-annihilation and West Germany’s compulsion to repeat’. 

Hilary Term 2018 

Monday 22 January. Kit Kowol (University of Oxford): ‘Grieving for England: mourning and conservatism in Britain after 1945’. 

Monday 5 February. Jeffrey Murer (University of St Andrews): ‘Violent Superegos: Klein, Ferenczi, and the politics of persecutory perfectionism’. 

Monday 19 February. Louise Braddock (University of Cambridge): ‘Annihilation anxiety, the death drive and Bion’s theory of thinking’. 

Monday 5 March. Manuel Batsch (University of Essex): ‘“I masturbate therefore I am”: the ego as a primary sexual object’.