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Powerplay: Psychoanalysis and Political Culture

A special one-day conference: 10 December, 9.30-5pm, The Freud Museum, London.

The Freud Museum in association with
The Centre for Politics and Media, Bournemouth University
Media and the Inner World Research Network

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/power-play-psychoanalysis-and-political-culture-tickets-28694219182

We are surrounded by political culture as never before and yet never felt so powerless. In this special conference we look at a broad idea of political culture and psychoanalysis, discussed as history (Zaretsky), as a state of mind (Stokoe), as televisual culture (Davies) and as the cultures of political practice (Hollins), exploring how these different areas feed into the political imagination and the unconscious processes that shape it. And as political culture seeps into people’s minds so ‘politics’ becomes a factor in the therapeutic relationship itself.

PROGRAMME

Morning session chaired by Barry Richards (biog)

Candida Yates (biog)
Opening Remarks

Eli Zaretsky (biog)
The Three Faces of Political Freud (abstract)

Philip Stokoe (biog)
A psychoanalytic approach to understanding the state of mind in societies that can produce Brexit and Trump (abstract)

Afternoon Session chaired by Prof. Candida Yates

Andrew Davies (biog)
in Conversation with Iain MacRury (biog)

Baroness Sheila Hollins (biog)
in Conversation with Brett Kahr (biog)

Plenary Discussion

Ends 5pm

Drinks Party at the Freud Museum to follow

To purchase tickets go to:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/power-play-psychoanalysis-and-political-culture-tickets-28694219182

There is a reduction for students and BU colleagues.