Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Attacks on Linking: Satire, Sanctity, and the Limits of Tolerable Thought. |
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| Venue | : | Online |
| Date | : | 19/06/2026 |
| Duration | : | 6 PM - 7:45 PM GMT+1 |
| Extra Info | : | A violent response to art, literature and ideas, by orthodoxies both political and religious are not only political or theological events but a concretised defence against the anxiety that symbolic play produces in minds unable to sustain ambiguity. To understand it fully requires two kinds of thinking held together: the political philosophy and the psychoanalytic understanding of what happens to groups when the boundary between the thinkable and the unthinkable is approached and crossed. Neither is sufficient without the other. Together they illuminate something that neither discipline, working alone, can quite reach. And threading between them, with a clarity that now reads almost as prophecy, is the work of Hanna Segal, whose distinction between symbolic equation and true symbol formation provides not merely a theoretical lens but the central organising concept through which these attacks and the recurring pattern of events they inaugurate can be most precisely understood. Segal argued, with characteristic directness, that psychoanalysis belongs to the great scientific tradition of freeing thought from dogma, whether religious or arising from an established scientific tradition. This is not an incidental observation but a foundational one. David Morgan is a psychoanalyst and organiser/chair of the Political Mind seminars and a member of the BPAS BPA and BPF. Editor of two books on the Unconscious in Social and Political Life. Dr Rachel Gibbons is a psychoanalyst, group analyst, consultant psychiatrist and organisational consultant. She has held senior leadership roles in the NHS and private sector, including National Director of Therapies for the Priory Group, overseeing services across 100 UK hospitals. She currently chairs the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Patient Safety Group and Working Group on the Effect of Suicide and Homicide on Psychiatrists |
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