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How to Live Together with Rey Conquer and Rachel Chaplin.

In this session, writer, translator and critic Rey Conquer will discuss their debut novel, How to Live Together, forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2027. In How to Live Together an unnamed narrator moves into a house to cat sit. What follows this act of elected-for solitude is a deeply philosophical meditation on intimate relationships, queerness and the non-human. Rey will read from the novel, before engaging in a dialogue with psychoanalyst Rachel Chaplin, exploring notions within the book like self-sufficiency, interior life, desire and dependence through a related psychoanalytic frame. 

Rey Conquer is a writer, translator and critic. They are the author of Reading Colour, a study of German modernist poetry, and Conversation Time, a book of translations and essay based on their work as inaugural translator-in-residence at Holocaust Centre North. Their debut novel, How to Live Together, is coming out with Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2027, and they are working on a book of essays on the director Eric Rohmer.

Rachel Chaplin is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, working in East London.  She teaches at both BPAS and University College, London: mainly Freud, modern French psychoanalysis and the intersection between psychoanalysis and the arts. Her research interests (on which she has published and has publications forthcoming) are: psychic bisexuality, the relationship between theory and imagination, the difficulties and pleasures inherent to the representation of psychic experience. A collection of edited papers on Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle will be published by Routledge in the Autumn.

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