The Political Mind Seminar on Racism

 Registration is closed for this event
Beyond the Blues:The Racial Unconscious and Collective Memory

Friday 17 July 2020
6.00pm - 8.00pm 
Registration will close at 5.45pm on the day of the event
 
Beyond the Blues:The Racial Unconscious and Collective Memory
By Professor Eli Zaretsky 

 

Despite or maybe because of the horrors of our past, slavery, apartheid and the Holocaust, we are again confronted with the iniquities of racial inequality. 

Racial reparation requires an acknowledgment of and responsibility for the terrible harms committed. Racism in contrast is a powerful and destructive defence, against this.

In this lecture Professor Zaretsky shows how Black activists and writers drew on psychoanalysis to understand the roots of racial violence. He is a professor of history at the New School for Social Research. His previous works include secrets of the Soul: A Social and Culture History of Psychoanalysis (2004) and Why America Needs a Left: A Historical Argument(2012). His latest book is Political Freud; (2017) where he applies psychoanalytic ideas to understand and critique consumerism, racism, antisemitism and patriarchy.

Discussions with Fakhry Davids, Psychoanalyst and Sharon Numa, Psychoanalyst
Chair: Dave Bell, Psychoanalyst

PLEASE NOTE: This lecture will be delivered remotely via Zoom

By registering you will get access to the live and recorded version of this lecture.

Students trainees, unwaged and retired are able to purchase at the concession rate.

Views and opinions expressed by speakers are their own and do not represent the views or opinions of the Institute, event organisers or other speakers.

 

When
July 17th, 2020 6:00 PM through  8:00 PM
Location
10 Windsor Walk
Camberwell
London SE5 8BB
United Kingdom
Show large map
Contact
If selected, only members with the status New, Current or Grace and those that have a website account will be able to register for this event.