Proust & Psychoanalysis

The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis is a training organisation and a member of theCouncil for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College (CPJA)of theUnited Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). All graduates are eligible for UKCP registration.The Site was established in October 1997 by psychotherapists who wished to create a training programme and an association that would foster critical, reflective and imaginative thinking about psychoanalysis and its contemporary practices.

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As part of its 'Sitegeist Talks' series, The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis presents
<H2>                                Proust &amp; Psychoanalysis:  A conversation between Jane Haynes and Christopher Prendergast</H2>
 
Critics and commentators started aligning Proust and Freud during Proust’s own lifetime, most notably around the notion of the ‘unconscious’ and the realms of sleep and dream. This, however, is by no means the whole story. But whatever the exact relation between Freud’s thinking and Proust’s writing (a vexed question), one thing is clear: by the end of their lives they held no illusions about man’s fall from paradise (assuming there were ever paradise to begin with). Freud strove to ‘deliver’ his patients from their neuroses and superego restraints, whereas Proust’s novels explore and dissect the aberrations of human nature that Freud refers to: ‘Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life? Or are you ignorant of the fact that all the excesses and aberrations of which we dream at night are crimes actually committed every day by men who are wide awake? […] We dwell upon the evil in human beings with the greater emphasis only because others deny it, thereby making the mental life of mankind not indeed better, but incomprehensible.’ (Freud 1930)
 Jane Haynes originally trained as an actor at the Royal Court Theatre, but after reading The Divided Self and working with R.D. Laing at Kingsley Hall, she trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst before becoming a founder member of The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She has published several books of which the latest are Doctors Dissected (with Dr Martin Scurr, 2015) and her memoir, If I Chance to Talk A Little Wild (2018) both published by Quartet Books. For 10 years, Jane was an independent consultant to the Eastern European Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She runs a practice in Marylebone with her daughter. 
Christopher Prendergast is Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy. He is formerly the editor of the Penguin translation of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu, published in 2002, and the author of Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic, published in 2013. His latest book, Counterfactuals: Paths of the Might Have Been is due out in 2019. He is currently working on a book to be called Living and Dying with Marcel Proust.
 
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