Public Seminars
TIMETABLE FOR AUTUMN 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 23 September (Room Mal 152/153)
Add to Google Calendar| 03:00 pm – 05:00 pm | Round Table: Interpretation | DARIAN LEADER, ANDREW HODGKISS, ALEXANDRA LANGLEY |
Saturday 30 September (Room Mal 152/153)
Add to Google Calendar| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm | Introductory Lecture: The Unconscious from Freud to Lacan | ASTRID GESSERT | |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm |  |
Freud Seminar: Freud’s work in the 1890’s | CARMEN WRIGHT |
| 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm | |
Short Course: The Handling of Dreams in Psychoanalysis | CHRISTOS TOMBRAS |
| 05:15 pm – 06:30 pm | |
“Your Popularity Among Us is Immense”: Michael Balint’s Influence on the ‘early Lacan’ |
DANY NOBUS |
Saturday 14 October (Room Mal 152/153)
Add to Google Calendar| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm | |
Introductory Lecture: The Oedipus Complex from Freud to Lacan | EVE WATSON |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm | |
Short Course: The Handling of Dreams in Psychoanalysis | ASTRID GESSERT |
| 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm | |
Freud Seminar: Introductory Lecture XXIII The Paths to Symptom Formation |
NOGA WINE |
Saturday 21 October (Room Mal 152/153)
Add to Google Calendar| 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm | |
Short Course: The Handling of Dreams in Psychoanalysis | Darian Leader |
| 03:30 pm – 05:30 pm | Is There a Joycean Clinic of Interpretation? | JEAN LOUIS SOUS Psychoanalyst, Angoulême, whose books include ‘Lacan et la politique’, ‘L’équivoque interprétative’, and ‘Pas très catholique Lacan?’ |
Saturday 4 November (Room Mal 152/153)
Add to Google Calendar| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm | |
Introductory Lecture: The Mirror Phase | LUCA BOSETTI |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm | |
Research Methodologies and Psychoanalysis | DAVID CORFIELD Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Kent & Author of ‘Towards a Philosopohy of Real Mathematics’ 2003. |
| 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm | Lacan Seminar: Elementary Phenomena in Psychosis | KRISTINA VALENDINOVA |
Saturday 11 November (Room Mal 152/153)
Add to Google Calendar| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm | |
Freud Seminar: Three Essays on Sexual Theory | DANY NOBUS |
| 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm | |
Short Course: The Handling of Dreams in Psychoanalysis | GWION JONES |
| 05:15 pm – 06:30 pm | The Forest of Fantasy | CONOR MCCORMACK |
Saturday 18 November (Room Mal 152/153)
Add to Google Calendar| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm | Introductory Lecture: The Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary | LAURA TARSIA | 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm | |
Winnicott and Interpretation | CHRISTOS TOMBRAS |
Saturday 25 November (Room Mal 152/153)
Add to Google Calendar| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm | |
Breath of Life, Kiss of Death: On Breathing and Olfaction | BERJANET JAZANI |
| 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm | Child Analysis Working Group | BICE BENVENUTO |
Saturday 2 December (Room Mal 152/153)
Add to Google Calendar| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm | Introductory Lecture: Identification | ASTRID GESSERT | |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm | |
Round Table: What Does Interpretation Aim At? | ARTURO BANDINELLI, LUCIA CORTI, GWION JONES, LAURA TARSIA |
Saturday 9 December (Room Mal 152/153)
Add to Google Calendar| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm | |
Freud’s Metapsychology Part I | LUCA BOSETTI |
| 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm | |
Could Music Teach Us Something About Interpretation? | VINCENT DACHY |