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Maudsley Lecture | ‘A heap of broken images’: Sterility, catastrophic change and growth in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

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The fourth Maudsley lecture in the Summer Term 2021 series, looking at The arts and psychoanalysis

 

These lectures will be delivered remotely via Zoom
 
28 June
‘A heap of broken images’: Sterility, catastrophic change and growth in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
Liz Allison 
 
"The paper will link T. S. Eliot's poem 'The Waste Land' with Bion's ideas about catastrophic change, and also memory and desire. Eliot's poem interests me because of the way it both demands and resists interpretation, and evokes an emotional experience which the reader then has to transform. We're tricked into believing that we can make sense of it by studying Eliot's intimidatingly scholarly footnotes and following up the references, but ultimately this pursuit has to be abandoned as a wild goose chase and we have to surrender to the emotional impact. I am also interested in the fact that while it can be read as a poem of despair, its disruptive impact on the literary canon was immensely creative." - Liz Allison
 
Elizabeth Allison is the Director of the Psychoanalysis Unit in the Research Department of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology at UCL and Programme Director of UCL’s MSc in Theoretical Studies. She is a psychoanalyst and Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She holds a doctorate in English Literature from the University of Oxford.
 
The speakers will be in dialogue with psychoanalysts: Anne Patterson, Emma Hotopf & Maxine Dennis  

7.00pm - 8.30pm
 
 
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When
June 28th, 2021 7:00 PM through  8:30 PM
Location
Online via Zoom
London
United Kingdom
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Event Fee(s)
Standard ticket £ 25.00
Concession ticket £ 15.00
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Standard ticket £ 25.00
Concession ticket £ 15.00