About this event: 'The Psychoanalytic Core: Encountering and Speaking to the Unconscious'
Celebrating 100 years of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis 1920 – 2019
You are cordially invited to participate in the last major Celebration Centenary Conference which will take place in London on the 20thand 21stof July 2019.
Titled ‘The Psychoanalytic Core: Encountering and Speaking to the Unconscious’ the sessions will focus on the foundational features which make up the essence of psychoanalysis and look at our take on them in the early part of the 21stcentury, they will explore what it means to encounter the unconscious.
Some of the most renowned contemporary analysts will join us in celebrating The International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the unique history that it holds.
The London Centenary Conference will take place at the Tower Hotel close to the famous Tower Bridge and St Katharine’s Docks. The London Celebration will also include an extra film event ‘Film in Focus: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Cinema’and a special IJP exhibition at the Freud Museum London ‘The Enigma of the Hour: 100 Years of Psychoanalytic Thought’. The exhibition aims to present archival material around specific themes which touch on the origins and life of the international journal alongside contemporary artworks.
Conference Sessions & Speakers
Chaired by Ron Britton
The unconsciousness of mental life
Speakers: Patrick Miller, Dana Birksted-Breen
Chaired by Jorge Canestri
Psychical reality and trauma
Speakers: Ignes Sodre, Gerhard Schneider
Chaired by Peter Fonagy
The psychical significance of sexuality
Speakers: Rosine Perelberg, Dominique Scarfone
Chaired by Rudi Vermote
Repetition and the death drive
Speakers: Catherine Chabert, Michael Šebek
Chaired by Antonino Ferro
The Body and its mysteries
Speakers: Catalina Bronstein, Riccardo Lombardi
Chaired by Dana Birksted-Breen
The Psychoanalytic Core: Overview & Reflections
Speakers:David Tuckett. Comments from:Lucy LaFarge, Jorge Canestri, Francis Grier, Beatriz de León de Bernardi, Georg Bruns. In conversation with the audience.
FILM IN FOCUS: PSYCHOANALYSIS IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA
Sunday 21stof July 2019, from 2:30h – Centenary Optional Ticketed Event
Sessions & Speakers
Thinking Cinema: Bion and Film with Kelli Fuery and Carla Ambrosio Garcia
Chair: Giuseppe Civitarese
Cinema at the Edge: Skin, Screens, and Subjectivity with Michelle S Stephens and Domenico Di Ceglie
Chair: Sara Flanders (TBC)
Female Human Animal (UK 2018):
A Roundtable with Alexis Schreck, Adele Tutter, and Josh Appiganesi in conversation
Chair: Caroline Bainbridge
followed by Drinks Reception
Find out more information about the Centenary Optional Ticketed Event here http://www.theijp.org/film/filminfocus/
REGISTRATION OPEN!
Please follow this link to register: https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=814&reset=1
Find out more information and download the conference programme following this link:
http://www.theijp.org/london/
Watch the London Conference Promotional Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKJRby_JTR4
Contact: [email protected]