Events and Seminars

Event:Hope/Less - Exploring Psychoanalytic Uses of Utopia
Venue:Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, London, SE14 6NW, UK
Date:25/10/2025
Duration:10am - 7pm BST
Extra Info:The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis - Annual Conference 2025

Speakers: Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Jon Greenaway, Billie Cashmore, Alexander Stoffel, Jim O’Neill, Foluke Taylor and Anouchka Grose

Utopia promises us an ideal paradox consisting of a limit and an opening: a limit to our suffering and frustrations and an open road to the unimpeded pursuit of our desires. It embodies an unconscious dialectic — a paradoxical symbol standing both as a boundary and as an opening. Utopia functions as a projection of an ideal state where suffering and frustration are contained within a symbolic limit, yet simultaneously, it beckons the subject toward an unbounded horizon of desire's fulfilment.
Organised By:The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Web Link:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hopeless-exploring-psychoanalytic-uses-of-utopia-tickets-1556657336999?aff=erelpanelorg
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