Events and Seminars

Event:Psychoanalytic Spaces, Implicated Places
Venue:Online
Date:02/11/2023
Duration:7pm - 8.30pm GMT
Extra Info:Lecturers: Lynne Layton, Carnella Gordon-Brown, Natasha Holmes and Beth Kita

The positions of perpetrator, victim and bystander and their role in traumatic events are well-understood. Clinicians and social theorists alike have relied upon them to think about both the causes and consequences of trauma at individual and sociopolitical levels. Michael Rothberg’s idea of “implicated subjects” in part contests this paradigm by elaborating the concept of “implicatedness.”

In this presentation, the four co-authors of the chapter “Psychoanalytic Spaces, Implicated Places” will talk about the concept of implicated subjects and then reflect on their efforts to make use of this idea to better understand their experiences of analytic institutes and spaces that often reenact trauma, especially for people of color. The co-authors will also offer their nascent visions of what an accountable psychoanalysis might look like, one in which implicatedness can be known and felt, and an alternative can begin to be imagined.
Organised By:The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Web Link:https://tavistockandportman.ac.uk/courses/tavistock-trauma-service-external-lectures-on-trauma-autumn-2023-lecture-2-cpd45a/
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