Beyond the Blues : The Racial Unconscious and Collective Memory By Professor Eli Zaretsky (7/17, 6.00pm - 8.00pm)

Friday 17 July 2020

6.00pm - 8.00pm

Registration will close at 5.45pm on the day of the event

<Beyond the Blues : The Racial Unconscious and Collective Memory By Professor Eli Zaretsky>

Despite or maybe because of the horrors of our past, slavery, apartheid and the Holocaust, we are again confronted with the iniquities of racial inequality.

Racial reparation requires an acknowledgment of and responsibility for the terrible harms committed. Racism in contrast is a powerful and destructive defence, against this.

In this lecture Professor Zaretsky shows how Black activists and writers drew on psychoanalysis to understand the roots of racial violence. He is a professor of history at the New School for Social Research. His previous works include secrets of the Soul: A Social and Culture History of Psychoanalysis (2004) and Why America Needs a Left: A Historical Argument(2012). His latest book is Political Freud; (2017) where he applies psychoanalytic ideas to understand and critique consumerism, racism, antisemitism and patriarchy.

Discussions with Fakhry Davids, Psychoanalyst and Sharon Numa, Psychoanalyst

Chair: Dave Bell, Psychoanalyst

PLEASE NOTE: This lecture will be delivered remotely via Zoom

By registering you will get access to the live and recorded version of this lecture.

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Views and opinions expressed by speakers are their own and do not represent the views or opinions of the Institute, event organisers or other speakers.

When

July 17th, 2020 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Location

Institute of Psychoanalysis

Byron House, 112A Shirland Road

London W9 2BT

United Kingdom