Public Seminars – Summer 2023
TIMETABLE FOR SUMMER TERM 2023
ALL SEMINARS WILL BE HELD AT BIRKBECK College, Malet Street, London WC1, BUT ALSO AVAILABLE ON ZOOM IF UNABLE TO ATTEND IN PERSON.
If you would like to join a seminar via Zoom then make a payment by the Friday before the seminar date. Once payment has been received your name will be put on the list and a link will be sent to you for the seminar(s) booked.
Entrance fees:
£10 for one seminar (£7 concessions)
£15 for two seminars attended on the same day (£12 concessions)
£22 for three seminars attended on the same day (£18 concessions)
** NB: SHORT COURSE: £100 for all four seminars or £27 per seminar **:
If you are unable to do this then please contact the administrator ([email protected]) who will provide BAC payment details.
Saturday 22 April 152/153
Add to Google Calendar| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm | Short Course; Phantasy | ANNE WORTHINGTON | |
| 03:30 pm – 05:30 pm | Round Table: How does Psychoanalysis Affect Identity? | DARIAN LEADER, CHRISTOS TOMBRAS, DOROTHEA SCHUELER |
Saturday 29 April 152/153
Add to Google Calendar| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm | Introductory Lecture: The Drive | CHRISTOS TOMBRAS | |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm | Intervention and Interpretation | GWION JONES |
Saturday 6 May (nb: all seminars will be via zoom today)
Add to Google Calendar| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm | Freud Seminar: Contributions to the Psychology of Love | CARMEN WRIGHT | |
| 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm | Short Course; Phantasy | NOGA WINE |
Saturday 13 May 421
Add to Google Calendar| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm | Introductory Lecture: Phantasy | LUCIA CORTI | |
| 01:45 pm – 03:30 pm | Lacan Seminar: “It stinks with cruelty”: On Lacan’s ‘Kant with Sade’ | DANY NOBUS |
Saturday 20 May 152/153
Add to Google Calendar| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm | Short Course: Phantasy | BERJANET JAZANI | |
| 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm | Fashion and Psychoanalysis | ANOUCHKA GROSE |
Saturday 27 May
Add to Google Calendar| HALF TERM |
Saturday 3 June 421
Add to Google Calendar| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm | Introductory Seminar; Interpretation | DARIAN LEADER | |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm | Short Course: Phantasy | DARIAN LEADER | |
| 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm | Freud Seminar; Civilisation and its Discontents | ALISTAIR BLACK |
Saturday 10 June 421
Add to Google Calendar| 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm | Child Analysis Working Group | BICE BENVENUTO |
Saturday 17 June 421
Add to Google Calendar| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm | Introductory Seminar: Mourning and Melancholia | ASTRID GESSERT | |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm | Lacan Seminar: The Meaning of Delusion | ANNE WORTHINGTON | |
| 05:15 pm – 07:15 pm | Valerie Love Lecture: The Counterfactual in Dreaming and the Verbal Arts |
ELAINE SCARRY Professor of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General theory of Value, Harvard University |
Saturday 24 June 152/153
Add to Google Calendar| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm | Round Table: Misidentification Phenomena | LUCA BOSETTI, KRISTINA VALENDINOVA, SEBASTIAO VIOLA | |
| 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm | “Your popularity among us is immense": Michael Balint's influence on the 'early Lacan' |
DANY NOBUS |
Saturday 1 July
Add to Google CalendarCFAR Annual Conference
Vivien Burgoyne Memorial
Who Am I? Psychoanalysis and Identity
(Fee: £70 Concessionary rate: £50)
Places are limited
(Venue: Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens, NW3 5SX)
Speakers: Bice Benvenuto, Bettina Bergo, Julia Borossa, Bernard Burgoyne, Lucia Corti, Patricia Gherovici and Caroline Rooney
Summer Party – 6.00 – 8.30 pm