WHAT WE ARE UP TO

If you have been following our research you may have already taken notice of the particular richness of radical and creative efforts coming from our colleagues in Brazil. This Latin American country is one of our research sites and as we conduct interviews,  archival research, travel for ethnographic observations and make connections with analysts and scholars in the region, we are still touched when we realise the level of presence psychoanalytic ideas have in discourse, be it in terms of public health, debates on race or in the political sphere at large. 

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Between May 29 and June 1, Raluca Soreanu and Julianna Pusztai will take part in the ISFN conference held in São Paulo, Brazil, on the theme ‘Psychoanalysis between Catastrophe and Creation: Emerging Perspectives’, and they will present their papers to an international audience. 

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The FREEPSY research collective is thrilled to announce that we are going to be part of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS) and Association for Psychoanalysis Culture and Society (APCS) 2024 Joint Conference, happening on the 17th and 18th of June, 2024, at St Mary’s University Twickenham, in London, UK. 

The field of Psychosocial Studies expanded in the UK over the 2000s and is now an established field of enquiry that combines various disciplines from the humanities, social sciences, arts, philosophy, feminism and decolonial studies, critical theories and, chiefly, psychoanalysis. We now count with important journals, research hubs, publications and, most of all, with a vibrant international community of scholars and practitioners.  An occasion such as the APS & APCS joint conference is an important opportunity to celebrate the creative rigour of our field, exchanging ideas and consolidating connections. 

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Between the 25^th and the 28^th of June, the FREEPSY team will be joining other historians, clinicians and researchers for the 43^rd Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Human Sciences, taking place at the University of Essex.

This year, the conference offers a rich, four-day programme with a truly international array of presenters and topics ranging from the borders of the self, the history of emotions, embodied subjects and internalization all the way to war memory and xenophobia, government and the human sciences and scientific sociability and intimacy. 

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Between May 29^th and 31^st, the FREEPSY team will be participating in the Caring Futures Conference in Paris, where we will join other artists, activists and scholars to discuss the transformation and revolutionary potential in historical and current health care practices in order to work out alternative futures for care within different communities. 

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In early April, we were joined by over twenty colleagues from various parts of the world to reflect on the meanings of a ‘mental health commons’, exploring the axes of fantasy, utopia and infrastructure over a series of five panels at the Midlands Conference in Critical Thought (MCCT), in Nottingham, UK. For the first time this year, the organisers of the London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT) decided to branch out to other parts of the UK. This gave rise to the Midlands Conference. Members of our FREEPSY team had the pleasure to take part in the organisation of the Midlands Conference, to listen to a variety of academic and creative contributions and to get in touch with colleagues from the most diverse fields and backgrounds.

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New article published in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, authored by Raluca Soreanu & Ana Minozzo, available in Open Access format.

Continue reading “‘Manifesto for Infrastructural Thinking: Living with Psychoanalysis in a Glitch’, by Raluca Soreanu & Ana Minozzo”

On February 27, at the Likeside Theatre, at the University of Essex, Professor Raluca Soreanu delivered her inaugural lecture titled ‘The Psychic Life of Fragments’.

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Our research collective is hosting a series of panels on the theme of ‘Mental Health Commons: Fantasy, Utopia and Infrastructure’ at the upcoming Midlands Conference in Critical Thought, happening on April 5-6 at Nottingham Trent University. 

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On the 15^th of January 2024, we had the joy of inaugurating yet another FREEPSY project initiative, the Free Clinics Working Group. Gathered at the Freud Museum, in North London, as an intimate group, we counted with the presence of two important researchers and clinicians at the forefront of the free clinic’s movement in Latin America: Dr Carolina Besoain from Chile and Anderson Santos from Brazil. Over the whole afternoon and into the evening, we heard from their work on the ground, their radical and innovative research and their vibrant web of collaborative practices, alive across Argentina, Brazil and Chile. 

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