• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Monday Feb 8 and Mar 8

Monday 12 November 2018

• 20:15 - Confusing cases: Forrester, Stoller, Agnes, Woman
  Julie Walsh (Essex University and private practice)

Monday 26 November 2018

• 20:15 - The unconscious in the Soviet sphere: psychoanalysis underground and in plain sight.
  Sarah Marks (Birkbeck University of London)

Monday 21 January 2019

• 20:15 - 'Sentience and Sensitivity: Innate and human environment factors generating mindlessness and anxiety' (DT); 'Annihilation Anxiety and Bion’s Theory of Thinking: what we (don’t) need the Death Drive for'.(LB)
  These are two linked talks.
  David Taylor (British Psychoanalytical Society and UCL), Louise Braddock (University of Oxford)

Monday 4 February 2019

• 20:15 - What is psychoanalytic sociology?
  Michael Rustin (University of East London)

Monday 18 February 2019

• 20:15 - From fading to fading: on following the subject in analysis
  Sandor Vardy (Vienna Psychoanalytic Association )

Monday 4 March 2019

• 20:15 - The Mine/d field of the Internal World: The importance of the setting in work with borderline patients
  Ellie Roberts (Psychotherapist in private practice)

Monday 14 October 2019

• 20:15 - The location of dreams: further thoughts
  Note this seminar is in 1st week
  Keir Martin (University of Oslo)

Monday 4 November 2019

• 20:15 - Echoism and narcissism: the silenced voice in psychoanalysis
  Donna Savery (Existential psychotherapist and Dasein analyst)

Monday 18 November 2019

• 20:15 - Richard Wollheim’s ‘spectator in the picture’ and the paintings of Edouard Manet
  John Lawrence (British Psychoanalytical Society)

Monday 2 December 2019

• 20:15 - Expressivism and failing to be oneself
  This seminar has been cancelled: the speaker has informed us that, due to the UCU strike action, he regrets he will not be able to give his paper. The seminar series will resume as usual next term.
  Matt Bennett (Cambridge University)

Monday 27 January 2020

• 20:15 - The perils of writing a book about the clitoris, 2 years on
  Anne Zachary (British Psychoanalytical Society)

Monday 10 February 2020

• 20:15 - Reconstructing Socrates: Platonic projections and realities
  Armond d'Angour (University of Oxford)

Monday 24 February 2020

• 20:15 - Psychoanalytic thoughts on the psychodynamics of Casino Culture and Politics
  Candida Yates (Bournemouth University)

Monday 9 March 2020

• 20:15 - Lessons from the Anthropological Field: reflecting on where culture and psychotherapy meet
  I'm sorry to say that this is seminar is cancelled due to illness. we hope to reschedule it next year.
  James Davies (Roehampton University)

Monday 26 October 2020

• 20:15 - The Unconscious is structured like a structure: the role of structure in the social transmission of meaning.
  This is the first of two linked seminars (Oct 26 and Nov 23) on Raymond Williams’s ‘Structures of Feeling’ and will be available to view online from 8.15 pm on Monday October 26, for 7 days. The link will be sent by email that day. To receive the link please email paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk Please note that there will not be an online discussion with viewers, but comments may be posted on http://oxfordpsychoanalysis.blogspot.com
  Louise Braddock (University of Oxford)

Monday 23 November 2020

• 20:15 - Structure contra Structuralism in Raymond Williams.
  This is the second of two linked seminars (Oct 26 and Nov 23) on Raymond Williams’s ‘Structures of Feeling’ and will be available to view online from 8.15 pm on Monday November 23, for 7 days. The link will be sent by email that day. To receive the link please email paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk Please note that there will not be an online discussion with viewers, but comments may be posted on oxfordpsychoanalysis.blogspot.com
  Niall Gildea

Monday 8 February 2021

• 20:15 - Architectures of affect: formulae for a psychoanalytic approach to atmosphere
  As last term, the seminar is online only and will be available to view online from 8.15 pm on Monday February 8th, for 7 days.The link will be sent by email on the day. To receive the link please email paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk. Please note that there will not be an online discussion with viewers, but comments may be posted on http://oxfordpsychoanalysis.blogspot.com
  Michael Uebel (University of Texas at Austin)

Monday 8 March 2021

• 20:15 - "Not feeling it": Affect theory and Greek Tragedy
  As last term, the seminar is online only and will be available to view online from 8.15 pm on Monday March 8th, for 7 days. The link will be sent by email that day. To receive the link please email paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk. Please note that there will not be an online discussion with viewers, but comments may be posted on http://oxfordpsychoanalysis.blogspot.com
  Katie Fleming (Queen Mary University of London)

Monday 17 May 2021

• 20:15 - Marion Milner and the psychoanalytic essay
  As last term, the seminar is online only and will be available to view online from 8.15 pm on Monday May 17th, for 7 days. The link will be sent by email that day. If you were registered last term, you will automatically receive the link this term. To register for the first time, please email paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk. Please note that there will not be an online discussion with viewers, but comments may be posted on http://oxfordpsychoanalysis.blogspot.com
  David Russell (Corpus Christie College Oxford)

Monday 14 June 2021

• 20:15 - Beyond Milgram: towards a theory of implicit violence
  As last term, the seminar is online only and will be available to view online from 8.15 pm on Monday June 14th, for 7 days. The link will be sent by email that day. If you were registered last term, you will automatically receive the link this term. To register for the first time, please email paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk. Please note that there will not be an online discussion with viewers, but comments may be posted on http://oxfordpsychoanalysis.blogspot.com
  David Kaposi (Open University)

Saturday 2 October 2021

• 09:30 - Topics in Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Thought: papers on trauma and transmission
  It is essential to register for the event but since it is planned to take place in-room the number of seats is limited by Covid prevention measures. Only 25 seats are available and will be allotted on a first-come first-served basis, with a small reserve list. As with the seminars, there is no charge for attendance. To register please email niall.gildea@gmail.com with your name and affiliation. Registered participants will be sent further details.
  Shaul Bar Heim (Essex), Louise Braddock, Katie Fleming (QMUL), Elisa Galgut (Cape Town), Niall Gildea, Jeffrey Murer (St Andrews)

Monday 15 November 2021

• 20:15 - ‘Structures of feeling’ and psychoanalysis: revisiting Raymond Williams on social forms of consciousness.
  As last term, the seminar is online only and will be available to view online from 8.15 pm on Monday November 15th, for 7 days. The link will be sent by email that day. If you were registered last term, you will automatically receive the link this term. To register for the first time, please email paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk. Please note that there will not be an online discussion with viewers, but comments may be posted on http://oxfordpsychoanalysis.blogspot.com . Following Michael Rustin's talk there will be a response from Louise Braddock.
  Michael Rustin (UEL)

Monday 6 December 2021

• 20:15 - Unconscious phantasy, and Richard Wollheim on dispositions
  As last term, the seminar is online only and will be available to view online from 8.15 pm on Monday December 6th, for 14 days. The link will be sent by email that day. If you were registered last term, you will automatically receive the link this term. To register for the first time, please email paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk. Please note that there will not be an online discussion with viewers, but comments may be posted on http://oxfordpsychoanalysis.blogspot.com Following Elisa Galgut's talk there will be short responses from Damien Freeman (Australian Catholic University), Louise Gyler (Australian Psychoanalytical Society), and Derek Matravers (Open University).
  Elisa Galgut (Cape Town)

Monday 28 February 2022

• 20:15 - The Shadow of Narcissism: (Jewish) Self-Hatred in the Age of Identity Politics
  The seminar is online only and will be available to view online from 8.15 pm on Monday February 28th, for 7 days. The link will be sent by email that day. If you were registered last term, you will automatically receive the link this term. To register for the first time, please email paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk. Please note that there will not be an online discussion with viewers, but comments may be posted on http://oxfordpsychoanalysis.blogspot.com
  Shaul Bar Haim (University of Essex)

Monday 23 May 2022

• 20:15 - The "Derridean Pharmacology" of the Transitional Object
  The seminar is online only, and will be available to view online from 8.15pm on Monday 23rd May for 7 days. The link will be sent by email on that day. If you were registered last term, you will automatically receive the link this term. To register for the first time, please email paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk. Please note that there will not be an online discussion with viewers, but comments may be posted on http://oxfordpsychoanalysis.blogspot.com
  Charlie Gere (Lancaster University)

Monday 13 June 2022

• 20:15 - Borderlands of the Ego
  The seminar is online only and will be available to view online from 8.15pm on Monday 13th June for 7 days. The link will be sent by email on that day. If you were registered last term then you will automatically receive the link this term. To register for the first time please email paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk. Please note that there will not be an online discussion with viewers, but comments may be posted on http://oxfordpsychoanalysis.blogspot.com
  Matt ffytche (University of Essex)

Monday 7 November 2022

• 20:00 - Economics, semiotics, and psychoanalysis: a case for an interpretive science of economics.
  This will be our first in-room seminar for a couple of years; note the new time of 8pm and the new venue, the New Seminar Room in the main college (St Johns' on St Giles'); there will be brisk ventilation in the room, and warm clothing is advised. There will be a later online version of the talk and a discussion with Kier Martin (Oslo) and Ivano Cardinale (Goldsmith's); the link for this will be sent to those registered and others expressing interest. Seating will be limited so that you *must* register in advance; please contact paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk to do so.
  Louise Braddock

Saturday 21 January 2023

• 09:30 - Moral psychology or moralised psychology? A workshop on Richard Wollheim’s “The Good Self and the Bad Self: the Moral Psychology of British Idealism and the English School of Psychoanalysis compared”.’
  In-room participation only.
  Elisa Galgut (University of Cape Town), Tom Angier (University of Cape Town), Craig Reeves (Birkbeck College), Louise Braddock

Monday 1 May 2023

• 20:15 - Othering and the making of witches and monsters
  The seminar is online only and will be available to view online from 8.15pm on Monday 1st May for 7 days. The link will be sent by email on that day. If you were registered last term then you will automatically receive the link this term. To register for the first time please email paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk. Please note that there will not be an online discussion with viewers, but comments may be posted on http://oxfordpsychoanalysis.blogspot.com
  Louise Gyler (Australian Psychoanalytical Society)

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 20:00 - The Climate Crisis: Why Aren't We Angrier?
  Responses: Shaul Bar-Haim (University of Essex) and Mike Waite.
  Josh Cohen (Goldsmith's, University of London), Mike Waite (Independent Scholar), Shaul Bar Heim (Essex)

Monday 4 December 2023

• 18:00 - The role of psychoanalysis in Richard Wollheim’s philosophy of art
  Regular attendees should note the earlier than usual start time. This seminar is joint with the Richard Wollheim Centenary Project -- see https://wollheimcentenary.org/programme-of-events/. Please register at wollheimcentenary@gmail.com confirming your status as academic (includes students), mental health practitioner, or other (please specify).
  Prof Derek Matravers (Open University)

Monday 19 February 2024

• 18:00 - Wollheim on Pictorial Expression
  Regular attendees should note the earlier than usual start time and change of venue - enter St John's at the Kendrew Quad entrance. This seminar is joint with the Richard Wollheim Centenary Project -- see https://wollheimcentenary.org/programme-of-events/. Please register at wollheimcentenary@gmail.com confirming your status as academic (includes students), mental health practitioner, or other (please specify).
  Niall Gildea

Friday 23 February 2024

• 18:00 - Wollheim on Pictorial Expression
  Regular attendees should note the earlier than usual start time and change of venue - enter St John's by the Kendrew Quad entrance. This seminar is joint with the Richard Wollheim Centenary Project -- see https://wollheimcentenary.org/programme-of-events/. Please register at wollheimcentenary@gmail.com confirming your status as academic (includes students), mental health practitioner, or other (please specify).
  Elisa Galgut (University of Cape Town)

Monday 26 February 2024

• 18:00 - Has what Wollheim offers philosophers - an account that includes emotional life - been ignored or forgotten?
  Regular attendees should note the earlier than usual start time and change of venue - enter St John's by the Kendrew Quad entrance. This seminar is joint with the Richard Wollheim Centenary Project -- see https://wollheimcentenary.org/programme-of-events/. Please register at wollheimcentenary@gmail.com confirming your status as academic (includes students), mental health practitioner, or other (please specify).
  Denise Cullington (Psychoanalyst in Private Practice)

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 18:00 - The Presence of Absence
  Regular attendees should note the earlier than usual start time and change of venue - enter St John's by the Kendrew Quad entrance. This seminar is joint with the Richard Wollheim Centenary Project -- see https://wollheimcentenary.org/programme-of-events/. Please register at wollheimcentenary@gmail.com confirming your status as academic (includes students), mental health practitioner, or other (please specify).
  Ela Gorkay (Freelance film-maker)

Friday 1 March 2024

• 18:00 - What Makes a Picture Sad? (The Presentation of Absent Emotion)
  Regular attendees should note the earlier than usual start time and change of venue - enter St John's by the Kendrew Quad entrance. This seminar is joint with the Richard Wollheim Centenary Project -- see https://wollheimcentenary.org/programme-of-events/. Please register at wollheimcentenary@gmail.com confirming your status as academic (includes students), mental health practitioner, or other (please specify).
  Prof Vanessa Brassey (King's College London)

Monday 4 March 2024

• 18:00 - Richard Wollheim and the psychoanalytic aesthetics of Adrian Stokes
  Regular attendees should note the earlier than usual start time and change of venue - enter St John's by the Kendrew Quad entrance. This seminar is joint with the Richard Wollheim Centenary Project -- see https://wollheimcentenary.org/programme-of-events/. Please register at wollheimcentenary@gmail.com confirming your status as academic (includes students), mental health practitioner, or other (please specify).
  Janet Sayers (University of Kent)

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 18:00 - Why Wollheim? Why collage?
  Regular attendees should note the earlier than usual start time and change of venue - enter St John's by the Kendrew Quad entrance. This seminar is joint with the Richard Wollheim Centenary Project -- see https://wollheimcentenary.org/programme-of-events/. Please register at wollheimcentenary@gmail.com confirming your status as academic (includes students), mental health practitioner, or other (please specify).
  Louise Braddock

Friday 8 March 2024

• 18:00 - Memories, dreams and collage: emotions in image
  Regular attendees should note the earlier than usual start time and change of venue - enter St John's by the Kendrew Quad entrance. This seminar is joint with the Richard Wollheim Centenary Project -- see https://wollheimcentenary.org/programme-of-events/. Please register at wollheimcentenary@gmail.com confirming your status as academic (includes students), mental health practitioner, or other (please specify).
  Ellie Roberts (Psychotherapist in private practice)

Saturday 18 January 2025

• 10:00 - Words and Pictures: how art makes the mind
  Both Sessions, morning and afternoon, are free but Session 2 places are limited. Registration is essential at wollheimcentenary@gmail.com and will be confirmed to registrants the week before, along with venue details. Please specify if attending one or both Sessions, and give academic or professional affiliation. If you have already emailed to register, there is no need to email again. There will be no remote access or video-link. Please note the order of papers may vary.
  Jim Berryman (University of Glasgow), Louise Braddock, Lesley Chamberlain (Independent scholar), David Collins (University of Cambridge), Craig Reeves (Birkbeck College), Anna-Lisa Sander (University of Heidelberg)