Dear Colleagues

We warmly invite you to join us for a Media and the Inner World day symposium in collaboration with the Freud Museum,  the Psychosocial Studies Research Group, University of East London and the Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures, University of Roehampton. Details follow below.

Tickets are expected to sell quickly and must be booked online here<http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-film-and-the-psycho-cultural-object-relatedness-process-tickets-11069734875>.

We very much hope to see you there.

The symposium will be followed by a drinks reception at the Freud Museum to launch the MiW/Karnac book series entitled 'Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture'. All delegates are invited!

With best wishes

Caroline Bainbridge and Candida Yates

Directors
Media and the Inner World
www.miwnet.org<http://www.miwnet.org> <http://www.miwnet.org>



Film and the Psycho-Cultural:
Objects, Relatedness, Process

A Symposium

11am – 6pm, Saturday 31st May
Freud Museum, London

Drinks Reception: 6.15pm


This symposium sets out to explore the ways in which film and film-work play an important part in creating new spaces for engagement with emotional experience. Cinema has long been held up as a form of ‘dream-screen’ environment, allowing for the playing out of fantasy in relation to desire and forms of identity. However, film also sometimes serves as an object of the mind, an object to be used or taken in, in order better to navigate the complex terrain of feeling that cinema can evoke for us. In this way, films allow us to question patterns of relatedness in the world and to reflect on the importance of thinking about process as a way of understanding the realities of emotional life.

As with other projects in the Media and the Inner World network, this event is informed by object relations psychoanalysis and invites psychoanalysts and psychotherapists into dialogue with academics and media creatives.


CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
(abstracts<http://www.freud.org.uk/events/75519/film-and-the-psycho-cultural/#abstracts> / speaker biographies<http://www.freud.org.uk/events/75519/film-and-the-psycho-cultural/#biogs>)

SESSION 1: Perspectives from Film/Video Practice

Catherine Grant
Losing/finding/creating the (child) star: on online mourning and videographic objects


Michael Chanan
Video: Psychoanalysis under Dictatorship (Michael Chanan, 2013, 15 mins)


SESSION 2 – Perspectives from Academic Criticism

Candida Yates
Masculinity and the objects of jealousy and flirtation in narrative cinema


Caroline Bainbridge
Lars von Trier’s cinematic extremism as therapeutic encounter


SESSION 3: Perspectives from the Clinic

Andrew Asibong
The Curse of the Cat People and the possibility of spectral therapeutic alliance


Smita Rajput Kemble
My Name is Khan: Alpha function after 9/11


This event is jointly organised by the Freud Museum and MiW and generously supported by the Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures (CRFAC) at the University of Roehampton and the Psychosocial Studies Research Group at the University of East London.

The event will be followed by a book series launch and wine reception at the Freud Museum to which all delegates are welcome. This is to mark the launch of the ‘Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture’ book series<http://www.karnacbooks.com/SeriesDetail.asp?SID=78>, published by Karnac Books and edited by Caroline Bainbridge and Candida Yates.


Candida Yates (PhD, MA, BA)
Reader in Psychosocial Studies
UEL Link Tutor, The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education
Director, The Media and the Inner World Research Network
Series Editor, Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture, Karnac Books.
http://www.uel.ac.uk/lss/staff/candidayates
http://www.miwnet.org
http://www.karnacbooks.com


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