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    Adam Phillips, the foremost psychoanalytic writer of our time, joins renowned psychoanalyst and critic Jamieson Webster for a conversation about necessity, desire, and reimagining our lives — and Phillips’ new book, The Life You Want.

    What do we really want from our lives — and what gets in the way? In The Life You Want, the beloved psychoanalyst and essayist Adam Phillips turns his attention to that deceptively simple question with curiosity, wit, and intellectual imagination. Phillips has long been a rare figure: a thinker who writes about desire, ambition, boredom, freedom, and frustration in ways that feel less like instruction and more like permission — to think differently, to be kinder to ourselves, to stay curious about our own contradictions. In The Life You Want, he asks what it might mean to stop chasing the lives we think we’re supposed to want, and instead pay closer attention to the lives we’re actually living.

    Whether you’re deeply interested in psychoanalysis or simply curious about how to live with honesty and imagination, join Phillips and Webster as they explore the personal and political dimensions of want, need, and pleasure — and how they can determine the course of our lives.

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    A two-day conference co-sponsored by the International Psychoanalytical Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association Department of Education, and the Contemporary Freudian Society. 

    This event continues an ongoing effort to create psychoanalytically informed spaces for dialogue during times of profound social, political, and ethical fracture—when thinking together is both most challenging and most crucial.

    The conference will open with a keynote by Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD, whose work has been central to contemporary psychoanalytic conversations on trauma, ethics, gender, sexuality, and political life. While psychoanalysis has contributed significantly to understanding the rise of fascism, it has less often addressed how to confront its violence and refuse obedience. Dr. Saketopoulou’s keynote will offer psychoanalytic reflections on political resistance and revolutionary action in response to genocide, the resurgence of fascism, attacks on trans communities, and the silences that often permeate our institutions and professional circles. Her presentation will be followed by an extended, roundtable-style discussion with Francisco Gonzalez, MD, and Mona Jain, MD, prioritizing dialogue and audience engagement over formal presentations.

    Karim Dajani, PsyD, and Eyal Rozmarin, PhD, will engage in a dialogue inspired by their participation in the 2024 ROOM film Speaking of Home: An Intimate Exchange on Israel–Palestine. Their conversation will explore how relationships can be sustained across deep and enduring divides, focusing on the lived, embodied, and emotional dimensions of dialogue when history, identity, and violence continually shape the analytic field.

    Throughout the conference, the emphasis will be on process rather than consensus. Participants will be invited to reflect on how we sustain our capacity to think under difficult conditions; how we preserve our humanity in encounters with others; and what emotional, relational, and institutional factors support the creation of common ground. Facilitated breakout groups will provide space for small-group reflection on emotional and bodily responses, personal resonances, and possibilities for repair.

    The Unseen offers a forum for engaging with often-overlooked dimensions of our professional lives: the psychological impact of violence, the ethics of silence, and the possibilities for resistance and healing—within communities, across divisions, and within psychoanalysis itself.

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