Does the psychoanalyst, practitioner of speech and language, have anything to say about capitalism, democracy and their relation in the modern era? Whether we take Freud’s Civilisation and its Discontents or Lacan’s Seminar XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis as our reference, does psychoanalysis provide a viable orientation for a reading of the current inflections, crises and mutations of the master discourse of our times? Can these references even still be considered adequate to the rapidly moving political, social and economic changes that we are experiencing at present?

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These are some of the questions that we hope to be able to explore with you in the course of this small series of workshops. For more information and for a more developed argument, please visit the London Society Website: www.londonsociety-nls.org.uk