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Conversion Disorder: Freud, religious transformation, Foucault and Agamben

Saturday, April 2, 2016 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am

Speaker

Jamieson Webster, Ph.D.

Dr. Webster will discuss the evolving of Freud’s term ‘Conversion Disorder’ to present day ambiguity of mind-body relationships, including the phenomena of radical religious transformation. ” ‘Conversion Disorder’ speaks a powerful truth about the way our bodies are affected by the world around us”.  Dr. Webster’ turns to philosophers Foucault and Agamben in this current, in-progress work.

SPEAKER

Jamieson Webster, Ph.D.

Dr. Webster is a NYC psychoanalyst, faculty at Eugene Lang College the New School, author of Life and Death of Psychoanalysis: Unconscious Desire and its Sublimations  (Karnac) and will be speaking on a work in progress, pertinent to present times

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