This is the second lecture in the autumn 2023 series.

Lecture 2: Psychoanalytic Spaces, Implicated Places

2 November 2023, 7 – 8.30pm

This lecture will be recorded.

Lecturers: Lynne Layton, Carnella Gordon-Brown, Natasha Holmes and Beth Kita

The positions of perpetrator, victim and bystander and their role in traumatic events are well-understood. Clinicians and social theorists alike have relied upon them to think about both the causes and consequences of trauma at individual and sociopolitical levels. Michael Rothberg’s idea of “implicated subjects” in part contests this paradigm by elaborating the concept of “implicatedness.”

In this presentation, the four co-authors of the chapter “Psychoanalytic Spaces, Implicated Places” will talk about the concept of implicated subjects and then reflect on their efforts to make use of this idea to better understand their experiences of analytic institutes and spaces that often reenact trauma, especially for people of color. The co-authors will also offer their nascent visions of what an accountable psychoanalysis might look like, one in which implicatedness can be known and felt, and an alternative can begin to be imagined. 

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*To enable access to the widest possible audience these lectures are planned to be delivered live, but remotely, as webinars. Where we are able, a recording will be made available to all booked delegates although we encourage live attendance wherever possible. Please see the details above to see if this lecture will be recorded and available after the live event.

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