Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Listening to Antigone - English Speaking Weekend Conference |
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| Venue | : | Online and In Person at Regent's University London, Inner Circle, NW1 4NS, London |
| Date | : | 11/10/2025 - 12/10/2025 |
| Duration | : | 2 Days |
| Extra Info | : | Speakers in dialogue: Angela Joyce and Joshua Durban, Chair: Margaret Rustin Michael Parsons and Catherine Chabert, Chair: Jan Abram Rosemary Davies and Denis Flynn, Chair: Liz Allison The figure of Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, is the focus of the 2025 English-Speaking Conference. The final play in Sophocles’ Theban trilogy centres on Antigone, child of the incestuous union between Oedipus and Jocasta. The tragedy unfolds in the wake of civil war as Antigone resolves to bury her dead brother, in defiance of her uncle Creon’s prohibition. Sophocles’s play weaves together a number of psychoanalytic concerns: transgenerational trauma, femininity, the sibling axis, grief and the obstacles to mourning, masochism and death. Sophocles confronts us with the tragic consequences of turning a deaf ear. Our challenge now is to listen to Antigone, to hear her story, and what it brings to a contemporary psychoanalysis. |
| Organised By | : | The Institute of Psychoanalysis |
| Web Link | : | https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm/event/info%3Fid%3D1770%26reset%3D1 |