Videos by David Henderson
Conference: Jungian Psychology & The Human Sciences, International Association for Jungian Studie... more Conference: Jungian Psychology & The Human Sciences, International Association for Jungian Studies, Duquesne University, PA, March 2021 190 views
Notice by David Henderson
Jungian concepts, 2023
Essex is a leading member of a small handful of universities in the world that provides cutting-e... more Essex is a leading member of a small handful of universities in the world that provides cutting-edge expertise in Jungian and post-Jungian theory and applications. This intense and unique online course will give you a firm grounding in the key concepts of C.G. Jung’s analytical psychology. It will provide you with both in-depth knowledge about each subject and a wide variety of perspectives to use and critique Jungian concepts.
This course will concentrate on Jung’s model of the psyche, with special attention paid to the definitive concepts differentiating analytical psychology from psychoanalysis: the collective unconscious, archetypes, complexes, psychological types, individuation, the Self, and synchronicity. We will also explore Jung’s evaluation of, and writings related to, the arts, religion, psychotherapy, and society. Most seminars will concentrate on one or two primary texts, which will be presented by our lecturers and examined in detail with participants via real-time discussions.
Taught by: Dr Ann Addison, Dr David Henderson, Dr Orsolya Lukacs, Professor Roderick Main, Dr Steve Myers and Dr Mark Saban
Thursday 28 September 2023
10.00 - 12.00
15.00 - 16.00
Friday
29 September 2023
10.00 - 12.00
15.00 - 16.00
£
Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem, 2022
Seminar Series 2022-2023
Comparative Psychoanalysis Research Group
Department of Psychosocial an... more Seminar Series 2022-2023
Comparative Psychoanalysis Research Group
Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
University of Essex
The Terrible Love of War by James Hillman
You are invited to join an online reading group to discuss James Hillman's book A Terrible Love o... more You are invited to join an online reading group to discuss James Hillman's book A Terrible Love of War (2005, Penguin) meeting between 7:00 and 8:30 p.m. (London time) on the following dates:
Tuesday, 29 March – Chapter One – War is Normal
Tuesday, 26 April – Chapter Two – War is Inhuman
Tuesday, 31 May – Chapter Three – War is Sublime
Tuesday, 28 June – Chapter Four – Religion is War
The sessions will be facilitated by David Henderson, PhD. of the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. To be added to the mailing list for notices and Zoom links write to david.henderson@essex.ac.uk.
Psyche Seminars, 2021
In the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies we are deeply engaged in the study... more In the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies we are deeply engaged in the study of psyche or soul. How do we understand psyche? Are we wary of the notion of soul? Do we share a common view of the origin and development of the image and concept of psyche in psychoanalysis? The Comparative Psychoanalysis Research Group is organising a series of seminars on the theme of psyche during the 2021-22 academic year.
MA Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies, 2021
The established MA in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies offered by the Department of Psychosocial ... more The established MA in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies offered by the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex is being offer in 2021-22 in-person on our Colchester campus as well as on-line for students throughout the world. The course can be taken full-time or part-time.
Essex is a leading member of a small handful of universities in the world that provides cutting-e... more Essex is a leading member of a small handful of universities in the world that provides cutting-edge expertise in Jungian and post-Jungian theory and applications. This intense and unique online course will give you a firm grounding in the key concepts of C.G. Jung's analytical psychology. It will provide you with both in-depth knowledge about each subject and a wide variety of perspectives to use and critique Jungian concepts. Online learning, wherever you are in the world.
We are very sorry to inform you that Middlesex University has decided to close the Centre for Psy... more We are very sorry to inform you that Middlesex University has decided to close the Centre for Psychoanalysis and has issued redundancy letters to its current academics. The Centre was founded in 1990 by Prof. Bernard Burgoyne. It provided many students with the opportunity to study psychoanalysis at PhD, masters and undergraduate levels. Its academics served as link tutors for psychotherapy and counselling trainings in the UK and Ireland which offer Middlesex University validated MAs, BAs and PG Diplomas, and joint doctorates with Middlesex University. The academics of the Centre have made important contributions to the field of psychoanalytic training and the development of the psychotherapy profession in the UK. Their publications and organisation of conferences and symposia have contributed to psychoanalytic research. The Centre's annual postgraduate student conference brought together research students from around the world to discuss their findings and ideas. The members of the Centre, Dr Julia Borossa, Lucia Corti, Dr David Henderson, Dr Werner Prall and Dr Anne Worthington, thank you for your interest in our work and regret that we will no longer be able to bring the study of psychoanalysis to the students of Middlesex University.
Books by David Henderson
This book of expert essays explores the concept of the whole as it
operates within the psychology... more This book of expert essays explores the concept of the whole as it
operates within the psychology of Jung, the philosophy of
Deleuze, and selected areas of wider twentieth-century Western
culture, which provided the context within which these two
seminal thinkers worked.
Addressing this topic from a variety of perspectives and
disciplines and with an eye to contemporary social, political, and
environmental crises, the contributors aim to clarify some of the
epistemological and ethical issues surrounding attempts, such as
those of Jung and Deleuze, to think in terms of the whole,
whether the whole in question is a particular bounded system
(such as an organism, person, society, or ecosystem) or, most
broadly, reality as a whole.
Holism: Possibilities and Problems, 2019
Holism: Possibilities and Problems brings together leading contributors in a ground-breaking disc... more Holism: Possibilities and Problems brings together leading contributors in a ground-breaking discussion of holism. The terms ‘holism’ and ‘holistic’ arouse strong emotional responses in contemporary culture, whether this be negative or positive, and the essays in this interdisciplinary collection probe, each in its own way, the possibilities and problems inherent in thinking holistically.
Christian McMillan, Roderick Main and David Henderson bring together established academics and emerging scholars across subject areas and disciplinary approaches to reveal the multiplicity and complexity of issues involved in holism. Divided into four parts, the chapters determine key strands of thinking explicitly or implicitly underpinning contemporary holistic thought, including what ethical conclusions might most reasonably be drawn from such thought. Accessible and diverse, this extensive volume contains chapters from the perspective of history, ecology, psychotherapy, poetry, mythology, and an especially strong representation of continental philosophy and Jungian depth psychology. Due to its multi-disciplinary nature, the book represents an unparalleled discussion of the meanings and implications of holism.
Written by an innovative and international calibre of contributors, this pioneering collection will be essential reading for practitioners in depth psychology and scholars of Jungian studies, as well as academics and students of philosophy, religious studies, spirituality, history and the history of ideas. The book is a rich resource for the enhancement of critical reflection among all those with an interest in holism.
This volume offers a rich tapestry of psychoanalytic thought. The authors demonstrate bold creati... more This volume offers a rich tapestry of psychoanalytic thought. The authors demonstrate bold creativity in their use of psychoanalytic concepts to think about a wide range of problems in philosophy, art and the clinic. The collection grew out of ‘Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society,’ a conference for postgraduate students and research fellows organised by the Centre for Psychoanalysis, Middlesex University, London, in June 2014. The range of themes addressed at the conference demonstrates the interdisciplinary character of psychoanalytic studies.
This book considers apophatic elements in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis through an ex... more This book considers apophatic elements in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis through an examination of Pseudo-Dionysius and C.G. Jung. Pseudo-Dionysius brought together Greek and Biblical currents of negative theology and the via negativa. In this book Henderson discusses how the psychology of Jung can be read as a continuation and extension of the apophatic tradition and identifies neoplatonic themes throughout Jung’s work.
This collection embraces a range of lively and informed discussions of important themes in contem... more This collection embraces a range of lively and informed discussions of important themes in contemporary psychoanalytic discourse. The chapters grow out of presentations at “Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society,” a conference organised by the Centre for Psychoanalysis, Middlesex University, for post-graduate students and research fellows. The essays demonstrate that the future of psychoanalytic studies is full of promise.
Reviews of Apophatic Elements by David Henderson
In this study David Henderson, who teaches and practices psycho-analysis, attempts “to identify a... more In this study David Henderson, who teaches and practices psycho-analysis, attempts “to identify apophatic elements in the theory and practice of C.G. Jung.” (p. 153). The main representative of that tradition studied in this vol- ume is the sixth century mystic Pseudo-Dionysius, who authored such works as The Divine Names and The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy. Henderson’s key argu- ment, as spelled out in his opening chapter, is that “psychoanalysis, in this case the psychoanalysis of Jung, can be read as a continuation of the apophatic tradition.” (p. 5)
This work by David Henderson puts forward an entirely plausible thesis: that psychoanalysis in ge... more This work by David Henderson puts forward an entirely plausible thesis: that psychoanalysis in general, and Jung’s psychology in particular, is a modern expression of the apophatic tradition. Apophasis can be translated as ‘unsaying’ or ‘away from speech’, and in religion and philosophy it is linked with the via negativa or negative theology. More broadly, it is associated with the mystical experience of unknowing. Apophasis affirms by negation (saying what it is not) the existence of a mystery in which we are involved, and in relation to which our lives achieve meaning. But this mystery, while felt and intuited, is unknowable. This ought not to provoke nihilism, but on the contrary an affirmative sense that we are resting in the arms of an abiding presence. As soon as we develop fixed ideas or images of this presence, we are in danger of losing touch with it.
Book chapters by David Henderson
Jung, Deleuze and the Problematic Whole. Roderick Main, Christian McMillan and David Henderson (eds.). Routledge: London ISBN 9780367428754 , 2020
Reading Deleuze, one hears Jung. The internal resonance between
Jung’s psychological theory and D... more Reading Deleuze, one hears Jung. The internal resonance between
Jung’s psychological theory and Deleuze’s philosophy is uncanny.
Žižek in characteristically pithy fashion states: ‘No wonder,
then, that an admiration of Jung is Deleuze’s corpse in the closet; the
fact that Deleuze borrowed a key term ( rhizome ) from Jung is not a
mere insignificant accident – rather, it points toward a deeper link’. This deeper link has been more sympathetically explored by
Kerslake, Semetsky, McMillan, and Jenkins. They provide us with the only systematic studies of Deleuze and Jung available thus far. This chapter
is part of an interest in using concepts from the work of Deleuze to
amplify elements of Jung’s theory. In this case, it employs the concepts
of symptomatology, percept and minor literature from Deleuze’s discussion
of the critical and the clinical. As such, it belongs to Jungian
studies rather than constituting an intervention in Deleuzian philosophy.
It is preliminary spadework, experimental exploration of the rhizome,
rather than definitive interpretation.
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This course will concentrate on Jung’s model of the psyche, with special attention paid to the definitive concepts differentiating analytical psychology from psychoanalysis: the collective unconscious, archetypes, complexes, psychological types, individuation, the Self, and synchronicity. We will also explore Jung’s evaluation of, and writings related to, the arts, religion, psychotherapy, and society. Most seminars will concentrate on one or two primary texts, which will be presented by our lecturers and examined in detail with participants via real-time discussions.
Taught by: Dr Ann Addison, Dr David Henderson, Dr Orsolya Lukacs, Professor Roderick Main, Dr Steve Myers and Dr Mark Saban
Thursday 28 September 2023
10.00 - 12.00
15.00 - 16.00
Friday
29 September 2023
10.00 - 12.00
15.00 - 16.00
£
Comparative Psychoanalysis Research Group
Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
University of Essex
Tuesday, 29 March – Chapter One – War is Normal
Tuesday, 26 April – Chapter Two – War is Inhuman
Tuesday, 31 May – Chapter Three – War is Sublime
Tuesday, 28 June – Chapter Four – Religion is War
The sessions will be facilitated by David Henderson, PhD. of the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. To be added to the mailing list for notices and Zoom links write to david.henderson@essex.ac.uk.
Books by David Henderson
operates within the psychology of Jung, the philosophy of
Deleuze, and selected areas of wider twentieth-century Western
culture, which provided the context within which these two
seminal thinkers worked.
Addressing this topic from a variety of perspectives and
disciplines and with an eye to contemporary social, political, and
environmental crises, the contributors aim to clarify some of the
epistemological and ethical issues surrounding attempts, such as
those of Jung and Deleuze, to think in terms of the whole,
whether the whole in question is a particular bounded system
(such as an organism, person, society, or ecosystem) or, most
broadly, reality as a whole.
Christian McMillan, Roderick Main and David Henderson bring together established academics and emerging scholars across subject areas and disciplinary approaches to reveal the multiplicity and complexity of issues involved in holism. Divided into four parts, the chapters determine key strands of thinking explicitly or implicitly underpinning contemporary holistic thought, including what ethical conclusions might most reasonably be drawn from such thought. Accessible and diverse, this extensive volume contains chapters from the perspective of history, ecology, psychotherapy, poetry, mythology, and an especially strong representation of continental philosophy and Jungian depth psychology. Due to its multi-disciplinary nature, the book represents an unparalleled discussion of the meanings and implications of holism.
Written by an innovative and international calibre of contributors, this pioneering collection will be essential reading for practitioners in depth psychology and scholars of Jungian studies, as well as academics and students of philosophy, religious studies, spirituality, history and the history of ideas. The book is a rich resource for the enhancement of critical reflection among all those with an interest in holism.
Reviews of Apophatic Elements by David Henderson
Book chapters by David Henderson
Jung’s psychological theory and Deleuze’s philosophy is uncanny.
Žižek in characteristically pithy fashion states: ‘No wonder,
then, that an admiration of Jung is Deleuze’s corpse in the closet; the
fact that Deleuze borrowed a key term ( rhizome ) from Jung is not a
mere insignificant accident – rather, it points toward a deeper link’. This deeper link has been more sympathetically explored by
Kerslake, Semetsky, McMillan, and Jenkins. They provide us with the only systematic studies of Deleuze and Jung available thus far. This chapter
is part of an interest in using concepts from the work of Deleuze to
amplify elements of Jung’s theory. In this case, it employs the concepts
of symptomatology, percept and minor literature from Deleuze’s discussion
of the critical and the clinical. As such, it belongs to Jungian
studies rather than constituting an intervention in Deleuzian philosophy.
It is preliminary spadework, experimental exploration of the rhizome,
rather than definitive interpretation.
This course will concentrate on Jung’s model of the psyche, with special attention paid to the definitive concepts differentiating analytical psychology from psychoanalysis: the collective unconscious, archetypes, complexes, psychological types, individuation, the Self, and synchronicity. We will also explore Jung’s evaluation of, and writings related to, the arts, religion, psychotherapy, and society. Most seminars will concentrate on one or two primary texts, which will be presented by our lecturers and examined in detail with participants via real-time discussions.
Taught by: Dr Ann Addison, Dr David Henderson, Dr Orsolya Lukacs, Professor Roderick Main, Dr Steve Myers and Dr Mark Saban
Thursday 28 September 2023
10.00 - 12.00
15.00 - 16.00
Friday
29 September 2023
10.00 - 12.00
15.00 - 16.00
£
Comparative Psychoanalysis Research Group
Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
University of Essex
Tuesday, 29 March – Chapter One – War is Normal
Tuesday, 26 April – Chapter Two – War is Inhuman
Tuesday, 31 May – Chapter Three – War is Sublime
Tuesday, 28 June – Chapter Four – Religion is War
The sessions will be facilitated by David Henderson, PhD. of the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. To be added to the mailing list for notices and Zoom links write to david.henderson@essex.ac.uk.
operates within the psychology of Jung, the philosophy of
Deleuze, and selected areas of wider twentieth-century Western
culture, which provided the context within which these two
seminal thinkers worked.
Addressing this topic from a variety of perspectives and
disciplines and with an eye to contemporary social, political, and
environmental crises, the contributors aim to clarify some of the
epistemological and ethical issues surrounding attempts, such as
those of Jung and Deleuze, to think in terms of the whole,
whether the whole in question is a particular bounded system
(such as an organism, person, society, or ecosystem) or, most
broadly, reality as a whole.
Christian McMillan, Roderick Main and David Henderson bring together established academics and emerging scholars across subject areas and disciplinary approaches to reveal the multiplicity and complexity of issues involved in holism. Divided into four parts, the chapters determine key strands of thinking explicitly or implicitly underpinning contemporary holistic thought, including what ethical conclusions might most reasonably be drawn from such thought. Accessible and diverse, this extensive volume contains chapters from the perspective of history, ecology, psychotherapy, poetry, mythology, and an especially strong representation of continental philosophy and Jungian depth psychology. Due to its multi-disciplinary nature, the book represents an unparalleled discussion of the meanings and implications of holism.
Written by an innovative and international calibre of contributors, this pioneering collection will be essential reading for practitioners in depth psychology and scholars of Jungian studies, as well as academics and students of philosophy, religious studies, spirituality, history and the history of ideas. The book is a rich resource for the enhancement of critical reflection among all those with an interest in holism.
Jung’s psychological theory and Deleuze’s philosophy is uncanny.
Žižek in characteristically pithy fashion states: ‘No wonder,
then, that an admiration of Jung is Deleuze’s corpse in the closet; the
fact that Deleuze borrowed a key term ( rhizome ) from Jung is not a
mere insignificant accident – rather, it points toward a deeper link’. This deeper link has been more sympathetically explored by
Kerslake, Semetsky, McMillan, and Jenkins. They provide us with the only systematic studies of Deleuze and Jung available thus far. This chapter
is part of an interest in using concepts from the work of Deleuze to
amplify elements of Jung’s theory. In this case, it employs the concepts
of symptomatology, percept and minor literature from Deleuze’s discussion
of the critical and the clinical. As such, it belongs to Jungian
studies rather than constituting an intervention in Deleuzian philosophy.
It is preliminary spadework, experimental exploration of the rhizome,
rather than definitive interpretation.
This seminar will consider Freud’s and Jung’s views on religion. In which features of religion were they particularly interested? How do their theories about religion reflect larger tendencies in their work? How do their approaches to religion help us to understand their collaboration and their conflict? We will also think about religion in light of the theories of Winnicott, Klein, Fordham and Stein.
Part 2: Psychoanalysis as religion 12-14
In this part of the day we will ask whether or not psychoanalysis is itself a kind of religion. Did psychoanalysis fulfil a religious function in the lives of Freud and Jung? We will reflect on ways in which psychoanalysis may be considered a form of apophatic discourse or contemplative practice. This will open questions about psychoanalytic training and the future of psychoanalysis.
What challenges does this mode of being pose to psychoanalytic theory and practice? A therapist who is working with a normative theory of psychological development, attachment, psychopathology, psychic structure or the analytic process is in danger of failing to recognize a fundamental aspect of these persons’ lives. The therapist may be tempted to diagnose the patient as borderline, an as-if personality, psychotic, autistic, or even multiple personality disorder. While there may well be aspects of the personality that are consonant with these descriptions, these diagnoses may constitute a category mistake. As Jung observes, “the patient’s difficulty consists precisely in the fact that his individual problem cannot be fitted without friction into a collective norm; it requires a solution of an individual conflict if the whole of his personality is to remain viable. No rational solution can do justice to this task, and there is absolutely no collective norm that could replace an individual solution without loss.” Encounters, Traditions, Developments: Analysis at the Cultural Crossroads: 3rd European Conference on Analytical Psychology, 27-30 August, 2015, Trieste, Italy.
It can be argued that Jung’s work is saturated with apophasis. As such it has a place within this ‘generalized apophatics.’ This provides an additional way of contextualising analytical psychology within the contemporary intellectual landscape. The coincidence of opposites, the nature of symbols, the transcendent function and individuation are aspects of Jungian theory that can be characterised as apophatic discourse. Psyche, Spirit and Science: negotiating contemporary social and cultural concerns: Fourth Joint Conference of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) and the International Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS), 9 - 12 July, 2015, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA.
For some patients the normal and ordinary represent lost worlds. These lost worlds can be mourned and to some degree reclaimed. As they come to re-inhabit the lost world its sublime aura fades. Other patients, however, have always been anomalous. By virtue of extreme early trauma, cultural dislocation or acute sensitivity they have never been unselfconsciously or instinctively part of ordinary society in any meaningful sense. For these patients notions of mourning or reclaiming a lost object are meaningless. For them the acceptance that the normal, ordinary life is unattainable is crucial.
To the degree that psychotherapists place a premium on a normative path of development and adaptation they are at risk of failing this second group of patients. For them the sublime ordinary remains an unattainable, disturbing and alluring territory.
Undergraduate psychology students find that the emphasis on reading primary sources and on writing conceptual essays in the psychoanalysis module is significantly different from the process of data collection and qualitative and quantitative analysis that they have become used to in their psychology modules. In seminars at both undergraduate and postgraduate level there is a balance to be struck between a rigorous academic study of psychoanalytic theory and accommodating the emotional turbulence that can be aroused by reading the theory. Few of the students have had any experience of being counselling or psychotherapy clients or patients. This opens the question of how far the psychoanalytic process can be understood or assessed without experiential knowledge. The tension between academic methodologies and clinical experience is present throughout all levels of teaching.
Dana Rush maintains that in African aesthetics, "the seemingly contradictory ideas of the ephemeral (impermanent, fleeting, short-lived) and the unfinished (on-going, enduring, never ending) merge in a dialectic that maintains the requisite tension between the two". This coincidence of the ephemeral and the unfinished is also a feature of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Each school of analysis enacts apophasis in its own particular manner. Aspects of the work of Freud, Jung, Lacan and Bien will be cited to demonstrate this feature. In addition to illuminating aspects of current practice, the foregrounding of the contemplative nature of psychoanalysis opens a path beyond some impasses in psychoanalytic technique. This investigation necessarily alters our perceptions of both ancient apophasis and modern psychoanalysis. As Turner observes, "One understands a tradition when one understands how that past lives in the present... to call upon a tradition is always to reread it, that is to say, to access a tradition is already to have changed it." [i] By reading psychoanalysis against the contemplative tradition we transform our understanding of both.
An online conference
15-16 September, 2023
Comparative Psychoanalysis Research Group
Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
University of Essex
Friday, 15 September
Do Kant and Bergson provide a platform for a Jung-Bion Dialogue?
A conversation between Prof. Bob Hinshelwood and
Dr. George Hogenson
https://www.essex.ac.uk/events/2023/09/15/toward-a-jung-bion-dialogue
Call for Papers
Saturday, 16 September
Panels and Plenary
Proposals for papers can relate to any aspect of the Jung/Bion discussion. Proposals for the Saturday panels should be 300 words with your name, affiliation and email address. They should be send as Word documents. The submission deadline is Friday, 23 June. You will receive a reply by Friday, 7 July. Send your proposal to Dr. Ann Addison (abaddi@essex.ac.uk) and Dr. David Henderson (david.henderson@essex.ac.uk).
This is the tenth in a series of Jung-Lacan Dialogues aimed at fostering an engagement between two important and creative schools of psychoanalysis. What is the common ground between them? What are the intractable differences? Is it possible to find a common language or achieve mutual understandings? And what are the implications for clinical practice?
Anne Worthington and David Henderson will elaborate the history and development of this concept in the work of Jung and Lacan, and reflect on some of the implications for clinical work.
Across many areas of contemporary culture we hear the concept of holism being invoked, as in holistic sciences, holistic spirituality, holistic healthcare, and holistic education. While there are different varieties of holism, each case implies a perspective in which the whole of a system is considered to be more important than the sum of its parts.
The Subject and The Self
Is there any commonality between Jung’s idea of the Self and Lacan’s notion of the Subject? And what are the specifics of the differences between these two important clinical concepts? Alan Rowan and David Henderson will elaborate the history and development of the terms and reflect on the implications for clinical work.
Alan Rowan is a Lacanian Psychoanalyst and member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis. He is also a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and a Systemic Psychotherapist who currently works as Head of Psychology Services within a Low Secure Forensic Hospital setting. He has published articles on a range of topics in the field of contemporary Lacanian Psychoanalysis and is frequently invited to lecture on post-graduate and professional training courses in psychoanalysis/psychotherapy.
Dr David Henderson is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice and a senior lecturer in psychoanalysis at Middlesex University. He has an M.A. in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies and a PhD. from Goldsmiths. David is a member of the Association of Independent Psychotherapists (A.I.P.) and has recently published a book entitled “Apophatic Elements in the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis: Pseudo Dionysius and C.W. Jung”.
Date 27th February 2016
Venue Room CG41, College Building, Middlesex University
The Burroughs, London NW4 4BT
Admission Free Enquiries A.Worthington@mdx.ac.uk
Register https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jung-lacan-dialogues-tickets-19579976236
Is there any commonality between Jung’s idea of the Psychoid and Lacan’s conceptualisation of the Real? And what are the specifics of the differences between these two important clinical concepts? Alistair Black and David Henderson will elaborate the history and development of the terms and reflect on the implications for clinical work.
Apophasis and Art
Rebecca Fortnum (Middlesex)
Michael Evans (Northampton)
Sonia Boyce (Middlesex & University of the Arts)
Friday, 19 June
1 – 4 p.m.
Grove Building
Middlesex University
Hendon, London NW4 4BT
This is the first event organised by the Apophatic Discourse Research Network. The Network aims to provide a forum to explore the place of apophasis in art, philosophy, theology, psychoanalysis, literature and other fields. Each symposium will offer the opportunity for practitioners and scholars from these disciplines to reflect on the role of apophasis in their practice and research.
On Friday, 19 June three artist/academics will speak about their art practice and how the notion of apophasis might contribute to our understanding of painting. There will be responses from the point of view of psychoanalysis and religious studies.
This one-day conference is designed to give postgraduate students from all disciplines who are interested in psychoanalysis an opportunity to present and discuss their research in an informal and intellectually stimulating setting.
Abstracts of 300 words (maximum) should include a title, the name of your university or training organisation and a telephone number. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes long. A further 10 minutes will be allowed for discussion. Sessions of 1½ hours will have space for three papers. There will be concurrent panels to accommodate as many papers as possible. The day will end with a plenary.
The conference takes place at the Hendon Campus of Middlesex University (30 minutes from central London) between 9:30 and 5:30 on Saturday, 20 June, 2015. Tea, coffee and a light lunch will be provided. The conference fee is £40 for presenters and attendees. The fee for Middlesex University staff and students is £20.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday, 29 May, 2015. Early submission and registration is recommended. Abstracts and queries should be sent to: David Henderson, d.henderson@mdx.ac.uk
Our current project starts with this web discussion and culminates in a conference in July 2013. We are asking Is Dialogue Possible? Are the competing tendencies within psychoanalysis capable of conducting fruitful dialogue? What are the conditions for meaningful debate? Do debates within psychoanalysis have specific characteristics that make these dialogues more problematic than dialogues in others fields. The question of whether dialogue is possible has implications as well for the relationship between analyst and patient, and indeed within each analyst and patient. Beyond psychoanalysis how can we think about dialogue between disciplines and groups.
Our web discussion starts with a reading of The Need for True Controversies in Psychoanalysis: The Debates on Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan in the Rio de la Plata, by Ricardo Bernardi, which was published in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Departing from vulnerability: Reclaiming self-empowering strategies in healthcare
Inga Zimprich will discuss the practice of the Feminist Health Care Research Group, and think about vulnerability and illness as particular places and practices of knowledge. She will ask what self-empowering, mutual care work we wish to reclaim as feminists and cultural workers. Finally she will critically look at the institutions framing of our practices –– either the health care system or, in the case of the Feminist Health Care Research Group, the art field –– asking how these enable or hinder emancipatory political practices.
www.ingazimprich.net
www.feministische-recherchegruppe.org
Venue: Room TBA, College Building, Middlesex University, Hendon, London
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/psychoanalysis-and-liberation-tickets-34926046746
For information, contact Maaike Engelen (maaike.engelen@googlemail.com)
The network was set up by Maaike Engelen, Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, ACP and David Henderson, Senior lecturer, Centre for Psychoanalysis, Middlesex University; Psychoanalytic psychotherapist, AIP.
A POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
CENTRE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY
LONDON
Saturday, 18 June, 2016
We invite postgraduate students and research fellows to submit proposals for papers on psychoanalysis or psychoanalytically informed research. Papers may be from any academic discipline, including psychology, sociology, cultural studies, psychosocial studies, history, literature, art, religious studies or philosophy. We also welcome proposals on clinical or theoretical topics from students on psychoanalytic trainings.
This one-day conference is designed to give postgraduate students from all disciplines who are interested in psychoanalysis an opportunity to present and discuss their research in an informal and intellectually stimulating setting.
Abstracts of 300 words (maximum) should include a title, the name of your university or training organisation and a telephone number. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes long. A further 10 minutes will be allowed for discussion. Sessions of 1½ hours will have space for three papers. There will be concurrent panels to accommodate as many papers as possible. The day will end with a plenary.
The conference takes place at the Hendon Campus of Middlesex University (30 minutes from central London) between 9:30 and 5:30 on Saturday, 18 June, 2016. Tea, coffee and a light lunch will be provided. The conference fee is £45 for presenters and attendees. The fee for Middlesex University staff and students is £25.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday, 27 May, 2016. Early submission and registration is recommended. Abstracts and queries should be sent to: Anne Worthington, a.worthington@mdx.ac.uk
Centre for Psychoanalysis
Psychology Department
Middlesex University
The Burroughs, Hendon
London NW4 4BT