New forms and venues of writing are stretching and freeing how we do interpretation and the audiences we address. How? This event brings together scholars working on psychoanalysis, history and literature, and/or life writing to discuss Hannah Zeavin’s Parapraxis essay “The Composite Case: The Fate of the Children of Psychoanalysis.” What can we learn from and about such extra-academic writing?

Hannah Zeavin is a scholar, writer and editor. She is the founding editor of Parapraxis, a magazine for psychoanalysis, as well as essays in the Guardian, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books and n+1. She is the author of The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy and the forthcoming Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parentings in the 20th Century, both with MIT Press. All Freud’s Children: A Story of Inheritance (US: Penguin, UK: Fern Press) will develop the kernel of ‘The Composite Case’ in book form.

Sarah Knott is a historian of reproduction and social reproduction. Mother Is A Verb: An Unconventional History (US: Farrar Straus and Giroux, UK: Penguin) traverses life writing and history.

Sloan Mahone is a scholar of the global history of psychiatry and the psychological sciences with particular interests in Africa, photography and visual sources. Her latest article is ‘Casting Out Anger: Stress, Possession, and the Everyday in Taita, Kenya.’

Joe Moshenka works on early modern literature, and at the intersections between creative and critical writing. His extra-academic publications include the New York Review of Books essay, ‘Milton, Freud, and My Cousin Hymie’.

Read ‘The Composite Case’ here: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/composite-case”

“Writing, psychoanalysis and history: Hannah Zeavin In Conversation” gathers under the auspices of the Centre for Women’s Gender and Queer History and St John’s College.