Silvia Lippi: Psychoanalysis and Feminism

The urgent need to overturn the patriarchal orientation of psychoanalysis is becoming ever stronger. Silvia Lippi tries to contribute by introducing the concept of sorority into psychoanalytic clinic and theory, for too long obsessed by fraternity and the M**der of the Father. She will try to unfold the elements of a sororal psychoanalysis that enables us to think differently about the articulation of the intimate and the political, the psychic and the social, the unconscious and the collective. The aim is to highlight the unconscious aspects of feminist struggles, seen here as a “shared symptom”, i.e. as a way of inventing a body together in response to unbearable traumas. We will think #MeToo, and more generally the great insurrection of women today, not as way to settle scores, but as a great desire for unconscious sorority. Through this proposal of a sororal encounter between feminism and psychoanalysis, we hope to reestablish to the unconscious its revolutionary scope, its ungovernable part.

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