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29-31 August, 2025 : Between the Notes: Catastrophe and Creativity – Annual Conference : The Australian Psychoanalytic Society. Sydney
Online & In-room | View Hotel, North Sydney Taking inspiration from Debussy’s profound observation that ‘music is the silence between the notes’ we explore in-between spaces where ineffable and inchoate states reside. The spaces between absence and presence, words and enactments, the mental and the sensual, the symbolic and the literal, and sounds and silence… Read more
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5/14/25 – Gandhi and the Marx-Freud Möbius:The Psychobiograph of Non-Violence. Hybrid event.
What happens to The Concept of the Political and the friend-foe distinction when the praxis of a transformative philosopher like Gandhi is introduced from the non-west? What becomes of the logic of The Beast and the Sovereign when thepsychobiograph of Gandhian non-violence is added as footnote? Gandhi, despite failures, perhaps brought Marx andFreud—political and libidinal… Read more
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Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self-Reflective Institutions, Leaders and Citizens. Book by: Ed Shapiro.
What stands between us and authoritarianism seems increasingly fragile. Democratic practices are under attack by foreign intrusion into elections; voter suppression restricts citizen participation. Nations are turning to autocratic leaders in the face of rapid social change. Democratic values and open society can only be preserved if citizens can discover and claim their voices. We… Read more
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Traveling through Time: How Trauma Plays Itself out in Families, Organizations and Society- Book by Gerard Fromm
“Bullets don’t just travel through skin and bone. They travel through time.” These words were tattooed onto the shoulder of a young woman whose father was shot during “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland. This wrenching, volatile but also binding truth is the subject of this book. It’s a truth about traumatic experiences that happen to… Read more
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UNITY IN DIVERSITY: ITS RELEVANCE TO OUR CLINICAL WORK
Robin Chester – Australasian Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies Conference. Sydney 17th, August 2024 SYNOPSISIn this paper the conference theme initiates a clinical consideration of a diversity in our clinical goals arising from the concluding clinical understandings of Lacan and Bion.Lacan came to see that the goal of analysis was to assist the analysand to embrace… Read more
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