Imágó Egyesület (IME)

A studio conference inspired by Sandor Ferenczi's Clinical Diary. London, 18 October 2013 - 20 October 2013

SINCERITY AND FREEDOM IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

A studio conference inspired by Sandor Ferenczi's Clinical Diary.

LONDON, 18/19/20 October 2013

Organised by
The Freud Museum and IMAGO International

 

A major international conference on the Clinical Diary and other work of Sándor Ferenczi, addressing themes of ‘freedom’ and ‘sincerity’, ‘trauma’, ‘borderline states’, ‘mutuality’, ‘self-analysis’ and the ethics of psychoanalysis. The conference celebrates the centenary of the British and Hungarian Psychoanalytic Societies, both founded in 1913, and the recent donation of the Ferenczi archive to the Freud Museum.

 

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Proceeds from the conference will go to support the active development of the Ferenczi archive and other work of the Freud Museum.

 

PROGRAMME SUMMARY

 

FRIDAY 18 October, 6pm – 8.30pm

• Opening Session: Analysts, Scholars, Detectives and Patients: Who is who in the Clinical Diary?
  with welcome drinks at the Anna Freud Centre.
  With: Christopher Fortune, William Brennan, and Emanuel Berman
  Facilitators: Tom Keve and Judit Szekacs

 

SATURDAY 19 October 2013, 9.30am – 8.30pm

• Session 1: Sincerity, Honesty and Freedom
  With: André Haynal, Ken Robinson, Gábor Szőnyi
  Facilitator: Carlo Bonomi
• Session 2: Experiencing, Re-Experiencing, Symbolization and New Beginnings
  With: Endre Koritar, Etty Cohen, Franco Borgogno
  Facilitator: Joan Raphael-Leff
• Session 3: From Babies to Maturity
  With: Shaul Bar-Haim, Antal Bókay, Julianna Vamos, Kathleen Kelley-Lainé
  Facilitator: Gianna Williams
• Evening Session: Kino-analytical Panel
  Two films by Em Cooper, Confusion of Tongues and The Nest, introduced and discussed by Kata Lénárd and Petra Kovács, with Em Cooper
  Facilitator: Kanaan Navaratnam
  
• Reception at Freud Museum 6.45 – 8.30pm
  Live music and book launch, Sandor Ferenczi-Ernest Jones Letters 1911-1933, edited by Ferenc Erős, Judit Szekacs-Weisz, and Ken Robinson celebrating the double centenary of the foundation of both the British and Hungarian Psychoanalytical Societies.

SUNDAY 20 October 2013, 9.30am – 5.00pm

• Session 1: Therapeutic Ethics and Analytic Concepts
  With: Julia Borossa, Benjamin Kilborne, and Hayuta Gurevich
  Facilitator: TBC
• Session 2:  Ferenczi’s “Others” – Jung, Klein, Lacan
  With: Tom Keve, Isabel Halton, Yves Lugrin
  Facilitator: Giselle Galdi
• Session 3:  Freedom, authority and the social unconsious
  With: Ferenc Erős, Jonathan Sklar
  Facilitator: Lene Auerstad
• Plenary Session: Internal and External Reality: The Ferenczi Project
  With: various Speakers
  Facilitator: TBC