The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond

Name: The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond
Start: 2025-03-15T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-15T18:00:00+01:00
Location: PAGE 28

Schedule

Sat Mar 15 2025 at 03:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

PAGE 28 | Malmö, SN

DATE: 15/3 (saturday) 13:00 - 15:00 (seminar, pre-register via email) and 16:00 - 18:00 (lecture)
Venue: PAGE28, Karlskronaplan 11, Malmö.
Lecturers: Elisabeth Punzi (PhD and docent at the Department of Social Work at the University of Gothenburg, psychologist specialist in clinical psychology and neuropsychology)
Vanessa Sinclair (Psy.D. at Nova Sotheastern University, clinical psychologist, psychoanalytic candidate, author, artist, host of the internationally-renowned podcast Rendering Unconscious, founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis in New York)
Myriam Sauer (Doctoral student at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Free University of Berlin)

Title: The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond

Abstract: Psychoanalysis and queer theory are similar in many ways. Both question the coherence of the subject, and consider identities and desires as being both subjective and socially shaped. Furthermore, both emphasize the centrality of the unconscious. During the 20 th century, parts of psychoanalysis however became aligned with normative psychiatry and psychology. This entailed a pathologization of non-normative modes of life. However, Psychoanalysis also holds a queer heritage. As it is a discipline that transgresses borders and challenges normative understandings of what it means to be human, it is often queer itself. Over the course of the past decades, queer theory and psychoanalysis, in particular through Lacanianism have become intertwined. This intertwining, not reducible to Lacan, has opened up new modes of thinking. Let there be a new, non-normative psychoanalysis! For psychoanalysis is too good to be left to those who use it in bad ways!

The editors of the newly released book The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (2025, Routledge) will give lectures and discuss these questions with the audience.

For those interested in going deeper into these questions one could join the editors and other participants in a discussion about one of the chapters from the book (Trans Childhoods and the Family Romance by M.E. O´Brian). Send an email to: [email protected] or [email protected] if you would like to participate and we will send you the chapter to read beforehand. The discussion will be 13.00-15.00 and the lecture will be 16.00-18.00.

Event is made possible with support from Malmö Stad, Region Skåne and Kulturrådet