Jessica Benjamin in Conversation with Lynne Segal
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Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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Jessica Benjamin in Conversation with Lynne Segal
Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (BISR) Psychoanalysis Working Group
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Jessica Benjamin is one of the best known contemporary psychoanalysts, whose work has had a profound impact on psychoanalysis, feminism and political activism. Her path-breaking book, The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Problems of Domination, appeared in 1988 and has continued to provoke discussion and radical thought ever since (for instance in two special issues of Studies in Gender and Sexuality to mark its 25th anniversary). Her work since then has developed into a profound engagement with intersubjectivist theory that has combined a reformulation of relational psychoanalysis (her 2004 paper, Beyond Doer and Done To is one of the most highly cited contemporary psychoanalytic papers) with an approach to recognition and acknowledgement that has had powerful political reverberations, especially in the context of Israel-Palestine. Jessica Benjamin is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City, where she is a supervising faculty member at the New York University postdoctoral psychology program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and at the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies.
In this special event, Jessica Benjamin will be in conversation with Lynne Segal, Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck. Lynne Segal is widely recognised as a major feminist scholar, whose many books include Is the Future Female?: Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism; Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men; Straight Sex: The Politics of Pleasure; Why Feminism: Gender, Psychology, Politics?, and more recently Out of Time: The Pleasures & Paradoxes of Ageing, as well as her political memoir, Making Trouble: Life and Politics, which will be re-issued in 2017, to be followed by the book she is working on Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy.
The BISR Psychoanalysis Working Group provides a context for colleagues across Birkbeck to meet together to explore psychoanalytic theory and practice in all its diverse dimensions.
The Birkbeck Institute for Social Research is a hub for the dissemination and discussion of social research in London and beyond.
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Madisson Brown