Psychoanalysis and History Seminars 2011-12
A seminar convened by Sally Alexander, Kate Hodgkin and Barbara Taylor at the Institute of Historical Research, which explores the history of psychoanalysis and the contributions of psychoanalytic theory to historical understanding.
Wednesdays, 17.30pm
[9 November session postponed: Barbara Taylor (UEL), Historical Subjectivity will now take place on 28 March]
7 December
Sarah Chaney (UCL history of Medicine)
"The single swallow does not make a summer": Psychological Approaches in Late Nineteenth-century Asylum Case Histories
Please note: this session takes place in the Bedford room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor
18 January 2012
Marcia Pointon (Professor Emeritus History of Art, University of Manchester)
‘Inversions: casts, masks and mortality’
Please note: this session takes place in room S264 on the second floor of the South Block, Senate House
29 February
Shaul Bar-Haim (Birkbeck)
"Reading between the lines": regressive states as social indicators in 1950s Britain
Please note: this session takes place in the Bedford room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor
14 March
Emma Sutton (UCL History of Medicine)
William James and the Varieties of Moral Medicine (title to be confirmed)
Please note: this session takes place in the Bedford room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor
28 March
Barbara Taylor (UEL)
Historical Subjectivity
Please note: this session takes place in the Bedford room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor
9 May
Matthew Thomson (Warwick)
Bowlbyism and the Postwar Settlement
Please note: this session takes place in the Bedford room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor
6 June
Emma Francis (Warwick)
Psychoanalysis in Egypt: Victorian novels (tbc)
Please note: this session takes place in Senate House, South block, Ground floor, Bedford room G37
For past Psychoanalysis and History Seminars, click here.
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NB: 'Psychoanalysis, Money and the Global Financial Crisis', David Bennett. Special issue
of New Formations no. 72. Parts are available to read free online at: http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/newformations/current.html