Berkeley Psychoanalytic Society
Exploring the Unconscious: Arts, Science and the Humanities
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Conversion Disorder: Freud, religious transformation, Foucault and Agamben
Saturday, April 2, 2016 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am
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
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