Paolo Uccello, detail from The Battle of San Romano, between 1436 and 1440 

FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

The Siren Song of War

Betty Bernardo Fuks

Friday, November 15, 2024 • 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (ET)

As global armed conflict seems once more imminent, we will examine from this perspective the articulation between psychoanalysis and politics. We will return to Freud’s thought on impending war and consider how psychoanalysis can trace an ethical trajectory that dissipates violence and cruelty.

Suggested Readings: Freud, “Reflections on War and Death” (1915); Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego (1921); Civilization and Its Discontents (1930); “Why War? Correspondence between S. Freud and A. Einstein” (1933). Lacan: “Fonction et Champ de la Parole et du Langage en Psychanalyse” (1953) in Écrits; Le séminaire, Livre XIV, La logique du fantasme, 1966-67. Clausewitz, Carl von: On War (1832). Derrida, Jacques: États d’âme de la psychanalyse (1994).

Location: In-person in NYC and online via Zoom. 

Fee: $40; For students with ID: $15

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Betty Bernardo Fuks is a psychoanalyst practicing in Rio de Janeiro. She holds a PhD in Communication and Culture (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and she is Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Psychoanalysis, Health, and Society at University Veiga de Almeida (Rio de Janeiro). The author of numerous articles on psychoanalysis, her books include: Freud e a cultura and Freud e a judeidade, published in English as Freud and the Invention of Jewishness, O Homem Moisés e a religião monoteísta, o desvelar de um assassinato.