About this Event
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This event is the first in a series of Psychoanalytic Conversations & Discussions.
Can We Queer Our Thinking of Psychoanalysis?
Only fifteen years ago I attended a conference on homosexuality in
psychotherapy, where arguments were still being made to fit gay experience
into Freud's Oedipus complex. Psychoanalytic trainings had only recently
stopped treating the admission of queer people as a problem — having long
held that queerness itself was a neurosis, one that could not be colluded with.
Today, psychoanalysis can still project heteronormative assumptions — the
objectification of trans and intersex experience being one example. Drawing
on my own experience, on Freud's idea of the polymorphously perverse infant, and on his views
on homosexuality, I'd like to open a conversation between us on queering psychotherapy.
— Lakis Georghiou
Event venue & nearby stays
1 Fairbridge Rd, 1 Fairbridge Road, London, United Kingdom
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