Shared Traumas, Silent Loss, Public and Private Mourning (Psychoanalysis and Politics Conference, London, October 2012)

Research Summary: Shared Traumas, Silent Loss, Public and Private Mourning

Event Type: Psychoanalytic symposium and academic conference

Primary Focus: Intersection of private trauma and public mourning; the psychoanalytic and political dimensions of working through collective loss

Key Thematic Questions: What constitutes the junctions between individual and shared trauma; meaning of working through the past; challenges to notions of the individual versus collective

Dates: 19–20 October 2012

Location: British Psychoanalytical Society, 112a Shirland Road, London

Disciplinary Approach: Psychoanalytic theory integrated with political philosophy and cultural studies of mourning and loss

Scope: Examination of silent loss, public versus private mourning practices, and the clinical/social work of grief and trauma integration

Psychoanalysis and Politics:
Shared Traumas, Silent Loss, Public and Private Mourning
Autumn Symposium, 19 and 20 October
British Psychoanalytical Society, 112a Shirland Road, London
The symposium questions the junctions of the private and the public when it comes to trauma, loss and the work of mourning, which challenge our very notions of the individual and the shared, asking: What do we mean by working through the past? Download the Shared Traumas Conference Poster.