Talks and Events

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Summer 2024

  •  Symptom & Interpretation, 1:45 pm – 3:45 pm, 13th April 2024, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Birkbeck, Room G13 – 14 & on Zoom
  •  Chairing Klara Naszkowska talk on Early Women Psychoanalysts, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm, 13th April 2024, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Birkbeck, Room G13 – 14 & on Zoom
  • Breathing and the Drive: Asphyxiation, Choking and Strangulation, 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm, 4th May 2024, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Birkbeck, Room G13 – 14 & on Zoom
  • Interpretation, 11:00 am – 12:45 pm, 8th June 2024, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Birkbeck, Room G13 – 14 & on Zoom

Spring 2024

  •  Punctuation & Scansion, 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm, 20 January 2024, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Birkbeck, Room G13 – 14 & on Zoom.
  •  Anxiety & Phobia, 11:30 am – 12:45 pm, 10th February 2024, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Birkbeck, Room G13 – 14 & on Zoom.
  • The College of Psychoanalysts UK Annual Conference, 10 am – 5:00 pm, The Guild of Psychotherapists London
  • On Breathing, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, 28th February 2024, Amsterdam University

Autumn 2023

  •  Beginning the Treatment, 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm, 7th October 2023, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Birkbeck, Room 421 & on Zoom.
  •  Breath of Life, Kiss of Death: On Breathing and Olfaction, 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm, 25th November 2023, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Birkbeck, Room 421 & on Zoom. (Recorded video is available here)

Summer 2023

  •  Short Course: Phantasy, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, 24th June 2023, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Birkbeck, Room 152/153 & on Zoom.

Spring 2023

  •  Round Table: Identity and Subjectivity, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, 21st January 2023, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Birkbeck, Room 152/153 & on Zoom. (Recorded video is available here)
  •  Lacan Seminar: Subversion of the Subject, 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm, 11th February 2023, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Birkbeck, Room 152/153 &amp, on Zoom. (Recorded video is available here)
  •  The Guild of Psychotherapists Winter Conference (Trainees and Members Only): Women’s Bodies and Desire in Resistance, 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 4th March 2023, 47 Nelson Square, London SE1 0QA & on Zoom
  •  Round Table: Labelling Identity, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, 11th March 2023, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Birkbeck, Room 421 & on Zoom

Autumn 2022

  •  CP-UK ANNUAL CONFERENCE, The Drive to Regulate, 10:00 am – 4:15 pm, 13 November 2022, The College of Psychoanalysts UK, Venue: 47 Nelson Square, London SE1 0QA & on Zoom

Summer 2022

  •  Is There an Olfactory Drive? 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm, 23rd April 2022, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Birkbeck, Room 421 & on Zoom (Recorded video available)

Autumn 2021

  •  Freud’s Work in 1890s, 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm, 2nd October 2021, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, on Zoom (Recorded video available)
  •  Roundtable: Money & Fees, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm, 4th December 2021, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, on Zoom

Summer 2021

  •  Olfaction & Psychoanalysis: Clinical & Cultural Explorations, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, 1st May 2021, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, on Zoom
  •  Transference & Responsibility, 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm, 8th May 2021, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, on Zoom

Spring 2021

  •  Re-reading Little Hans Case, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, 23rd January 2021, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Webinar
  •  Acting Out and Passage to the Act: Short Course, 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm, 6th February 2021, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Webinar

Book Launch

Autumn 2020

  •  Round Table: Psychoanalysis and the Pandemic, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm, 26th September 2020, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Webinar
  •  Round Table: Working Remotely, 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm, 3rd October 2020, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Webinar (For Trainees Only)
  •  Introductory Lecture: The Oedipus Complex from Freud to Lacan, 11:00 am – 12:45 pm, 21st November 2020, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Webinar

Summer 2020

  •  Emotions and Feelings in Persian Thought, 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm, 25th April 2020, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Webinar
  •  Sort Course: Hysteria & Obsession, 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm, 2nd May 2020, Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, Webinar

Spring 2020

  •  Short Course: Diagnosis, 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm, 22nd February 2020, University College London (UCL), Institue of Education, London
  •  Introductory Course: The Drive, 11:00 am – 12:45 pm, 14th March 2020, University College London (UCL), Institue of Education, London

Autumn 2019

  •  A Training Session. Not Open to the Public. An Introduction to the Lacanian Theory and Clinic of Psychosis. 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm, 29th November 2019, Psychosis Therapy Project (PTP), Islington, London
  •  Feelings, Roundtable, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, 29th September 2019, University College London (UCL), Institue of Education, London

Summer 2019

  •  Psychoanalysis & Translation, 9th June 2019, Freud Museum, London
  •  Ego, Ideal, Superego, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, 18th May 2019, Bristol University
  •  Bodily Excitation & Deadness in Neurosis & Psychosis, 4th May 2019, CFAR at UCL, Institute of Education, London

Spring 2019

  •  Psychosis, 23rd March 2019, CFAR at UCL, Institute of Education, London
  •  Freud’s Second Topic, 26th January 2019, CFAR at UCL, Institute of Education, London
  •  The Unconscious, 19th January 2019, CFAR at UCL, Institute of Education, London

Autumn 2018

  •  The Psychotic Politics: A Fury Road to the Awakening of the Primal Father, 29th Sep 2018, Organised by The Freud Museum, held at The Anna Freud Centre, London
  •  Freud’s work in the 1890s, 6th Oct 2018, CFAR at UCL, Institute of Education, London
  •  What can be learnt from Lacanian Psychoanalysis while thinking critically about the Subject’s desire in the era of Neoliberalism, 15th Oct 2018, Birkbeck, University of London, MA course at the Department of Psychosocial Studies.

Summer 2018

  •  Memento: Psychosis & Logical time, 23rd June 2018, Birkbeck, University of London
  •  Is Singularity near? Reclaiming Subject of Drive in the era of Singularity, 19th May 2018, Birkbeck, University of London

Spring 2018

  •  The position of the analyst: Lacan & Jung Dialogue, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 2nd December, Middlesex University
  •  Transference, 11:00 am – 12:45 pm, 3rd February 2018, Birkbeck, University of London

Autumn 2017

  •  Perversion and society: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, 24th November 2017, Kensington Library (in Persian Language)
  •  Identification in Freud, 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm, 4th November 2017, Birkbeck, University of London
  •  Changes in Lacan’s Theory of the Mirror Phase, 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm, 14th October 2017, Birkbeck, University of London
  •  Psychoanalysis & History Roundtable, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, 23rd September 2017, Birkbeck, University of London

Summer 2017

  •  Lacan’s Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, 1st July 2017, Bristol University
  •  Introductory Course: Interpretation 11:00 am – 1:00 pm, 24th June 2017, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research
  •  Short Course: Hysteria and Obsession 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm, 20th May 2017, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research

Spring 2017

  •  Hosting Dr Raul Moncayo talk: Sexual Relation and Topology 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, 1st April 2017, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research
  •  Short Course: Diagnosis 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm, 25th Feb 2017, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research
  •  Psychosis and society 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, 19th February 2017, Kensington Library
  •  Signification and Equivocation 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm, 28th January 2017, Centre For Freudian Analysis and Research
  •  The Ratman 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, 21st January 2017, Centre For Freudian Analysis and Research

Autumn 2016

  •  The Little Hans Case 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, 26th Nov 2016, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research
  •  Interpreting the Nonsense 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, 12th Nov 2016, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research
  •  Lacan in Practice 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, 19th Oct 2016, Lampton Practice London
  •  The Dora Case 3:30 pm – 5:15 pm, 8th Oct 2016, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research

Summer 2016

  •  Symptom Formation in Neurosis 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, 18th June 2016, Centre For Freudian Analysis and Research

Spring 2016

  •  Short Course: Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (Transference) 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm, 13 Feb 2016, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research