Event overview
Sophie Mendelsohn
Psychoanalysis and Decolonisation: The University
With: Sophie Mendelsohn
Respondent: Yaiza Hernandez Velazquez
In September 2019, the daily Le Monde published an op-ed by 80 psychoanalysts, many of whom are academics, expressing concerns about the presence of decolonial ideas at the University. Sophie Mendelsohn co-authored a counter-point published a few days later in the newspaper Libération, expressing surprise that psychoanalysts considered it a moral duty to alert the university authorities to the alleged danger involved. On the one hand, this problematically situated psychoanalysts as guarantors of the moral order and censors, and on the other hand, it left unresolved the question of how postcolonial and decolonial studies can be seen as a threat to the University. By mobilising the tools of psychoanalysis, this talk will start from the infamous "They Kant be serious" to arrive, perhaps, at a "La-can be serious".
Sophie Mendelsohn is a practicing psychoanalyst based in Paris. Her researches focuses on the links that psychoanalysis has with critical theories of gender and race, literature, and philosophy. She has contributed to various journals, including Les Annales médico-psychologiques, Critique, Desde el Jardin de Freud, L'Évolution psychiatrique, Essaim, Problemata, Psychoanalysis She is a founding member of the Collectif de Pantin and currently co-organizes its activities.
Yaiza Hernandez Velazquez is a lecturer in Visual Cultures and member of the Visual Cultures Department Decolonising Group at Goldsmiths, University of London
"Psychoanalysis and Decolonisation: The University" is part of the Visual Cultures Public Programme, Spring 2020, co-organised by Anthony Faramelli and Janna Graham with the Network for Institutional Analysis.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 13 Feb 2020 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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