Book Discussion: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Myth in Contemporary Culture (2017)
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Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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The Department of Law is pleased to present this discussion of Angie Voela's Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Myth in Contemporary Culture (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
The book brings together novels, plays and films and psychoanalysis in answering the question of how do we 'recognise truth when [we] come across it?. The discussion will feature the following:
Angie Voela is a senior lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London. She has published in a number of journals and co-edited We Need to Talk About Family: Essays on Neoliberalism, the Family and Popular Culture (2016).
Maria Aristodemou is a Reader in Law, Literature and Psychoanalysis and Assistant Dean for Law at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Law, Psychoanalysis, Society: Taking the Unconscious Seriously (2014) and Law & Literature: Journeys from Her to Eternity (2000) as well as numerous articles and book chapters.
Amber Jacobs is a Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis and the Law of the Mother (2007) and numerous articles and book chapters.
Chrysanthi Nigianni is a Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, she is the co-editor of Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice (2012), Deleuzian Politics? (2010), Deleuze and Queer Theory (2009).
Elena Loizidou is the convenor of the event.
Image: Antigone (Nikiforos Lytras, 1865)
This event is part of a series celebrating the 25th Anniversay of the School of Law, Birkbeck, reflecting on our history and successes as well as looking forward to the opportunities and challenges facing critical legal and criminological teaching and scholarship in the 21st century. Find out more out our 25th Anniversary here.
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