Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Afro-Pessimism and Psychoanalysis |
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| Venue | : | Online |
| Date | : | 26/10/2024 |
| Duration | : | 3 - 5pm BST / 10am - 12pm EDT |
| Extra Info | : | Derek Hook with Maxine Dennis This is the latest in a series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis by initiating Transatlantic Dialogues between academics and psychotherapists, bringing clinical responses to their academic decolonial work. Afro-pessimism is an emerging critical theory that identifies and conceptualizes the historical persistence of anti-Blackness in the USA and beyond. Afro-pessimism also engages with psychoanalytic ideas in a radical and thought-provoking way. In recent years, Lacanian theorists and clinicians have argued that Lacan’s notion of jouissance (the human dimension of libidinal intensity and arousal) offers us a rich psychoanalytic account of racism. And yet it might be with reference to Afro-pessimism that the concept receives its most pertinent and critically significant utilization. This talk will briefly introduce the theory of Afro-pessimism and the notion of racism-as-jouissance before highlighting a series of questions that this conceptualization poses both for social theories and important clinical concerns, such as the transference. |
| Organised By | : | The Guild of Psychotherapists |
| Web Link | : | https://guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/news/26-october-afro-pessimism-and-psychoanalysis/ |