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Meaning and Mindedness: Encounters between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Tavistock Seminar Series, 2013)

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Research Summary: Meaning and Mindedness Seminar Series

Event Type: Interdisciplinary seminar series bridging philosophy and psychoanalysis
Venue: Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, Hampstead, NW3
Duration: Five seminars, January–May 2013, 7pm–9pm
Cost: £15 per seminar (concessions available)
Key Topics Explored: Psychosis, envy, morality and ambivalence, and narrative
Notable Speakers: Richard Gipps (clinical psychologist), Jonathan Lear (philosopher and psychoanalyst), David Taylor (psychoanalyst), Galen Strawson (philosopher)
Intellectual Framework: Dialogical encounters between philosophical analysis and psychoanalytic theory to examine fundamental concepts of mind, meaning, and human experience
Audience: Clinicians, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and interdisciplinary scholars

Meaning and Mindedness: Encounters between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Tavistock Centre
120 Belsize Lane, Hampstead, NW3
7pm – 9pm
Cost: £15 (some concessions)

Seminar 1: Psychosis. 25th January 2013. Speaker: Richard Gipps (Clinical Psychologist; co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry). Discussant: tba

Seminar 2: Envy. 22nd February 2013. Speaker: Jonathan Lear (Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago; Psychoanalyst). Discussant: Edna O’Shaughnessy (Psychoanalyst)

Seminar 3: Morality and Ambivalence. 22nd March 2013. Speaker: David Taylor (psychoanalyst). Discussant: Anthony Price (Professor of Philosophy, Birkbeck College, London)

Seminar 4: TBC. 26 April 2013.

Seminar 5: Narrative. 24th May 2013. Speaker: Galen Strawson (Professor of Philosophy, Reading/University of Texas, Austin). Discussant: tba

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