As the film ‘Misbehaviour’ launches this week, Poppy Sebag-Montefiore speaks to women’s liberationist and flour-bomber of the Miss World contest, Sally Alexander (played by Kiera Knightly), about history, psychoanalysis and collectivity.
Tag: psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis and History Seminar, Spring 2019 Programme
A packed programme for Spring 2019 with the Psychoanalysis and History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research.
Virtual Special Issue: Psychoanalysis and History
A special free-access issue of History Workshop Journal brings together seventeen articles, spanning almost forty years, addressing the use of psychoanalysis as historical explanation.
Thinking about denial: its impact on the climate, our politics and the writing of history
Catherine Hall and Daniel Pick reflect on the power of denial, the danger of myopia, and the ways denial holds people together, shaping collective and national memories.
Political Freud: an interview with Eli Zaretsky
Ideas of the unconscious, repression, regression and the ego are the very ones we need to understand the challenges we face today.
What is the history of sexuality?
‘What is the History of Sexuality?’ at Birkbeck brought together doctoral students from across the world, and was an opportunity for their innovative research to be critiqued and developed through discussion with scholars in the field.
Conference Report: Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism
A report by Susie Christensen from ‘Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism’ held on 21st-22nd September 2012 at the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, London.
