About the Psychoanalysis and… series

From literary to film studies, from political sciences and cultural analysis to queer and postcolonial perspectives, psychoanalysis has long provided a wealth of concepts and analytical perspectives to address issues at the core of our changing societies and culture. Not only has the psychoanalytic work put furth by Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, or Wilfred Bion addressed the subject constitutive role of society and culture, but also the work of Teresa de Lauretis, Homi K. Bhabha, and Slavoj Žižek has engaged with psychoanalysis as a means to contest and rethink our fields of knowledge and academic boundaries.

The psychoanalysis and… series aim at continuing with this boundary breaking—a breaking of academic, artistic, activist, social boundaries—by organizing talks, symposia, and roundtable discussions in which psychoanalysis is brought to the arena of our changing contemporary world. Different schools of psychoanalysis, different academic disciplines, and different artistic and activist perspectives will be drawn into a conversation aimed at rethinking the world around us. For this, we invite scholars, researchers, students, but also artist, activists, and anyone interested in the different topics that will be addressed in the series to join us in our different events.