Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Dresden – The Ghosts of the Past Are Returning to Haunt Europe |
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| Venue | : | Online |
| Date | : | 19/02/2025 |
| Duration | : | 6- 7:30pm GMT |
| Extra Info | : | With Jonathan Sklar Dresden used to be known as the Florence of the Elbe till it was destroyed by an aerial firestorm towards the end of WW2 with massive loss of life. The attack was also against our cultural objects that leaves us similarly in Covid times with only a pixelated impression – a not alive culture that is hugely depressing. Winnicott theorised that the end of the Transitional object between the baby and mother left a space that could transform into the Arena of Creativity for humans, a development of unconscious mind. Without it we are bereft. A discussion of the sacred and profane, St. Christopher and the Erl King examines the fight between good enough holding or suffocation of the object and introduces destructive sado-masochism. Metaphor is part of unconscious creativity in humans and is a deep component to analytic listening. Sebald’s book Austerlitz is discussed in relation to the profound emptiness at the centre of destruction. Trans-generational trauma and the return of the repressed often cannot be known, described and understood as its unconscious centre is an empty space. Today Nazism arises again even in this city and beyond. |
| Organised By | : | Psychoanalysis and Politics |
| Web Link | : | https://www.psa-pol.org/crises/dresden-the-ghosts-of-the-past-are-returning-to-haunt-europe/ |