New Directions – “What’s in Mind?”

Via Zoom

This weekend conference will be held online using the Zoom platform. HOW DID IT GET THERE? WHAT’S TO BE DONE? November 3-6, 2022 This weekend will explore the notion of mentalization, the developmentally-achieved capacity to recognize that what is in our minds is a product of our experience and to know that others have minds […]

New Directions – “Poetry and Psychoanalysis”

Via Zoom

This weekend conference will be held online using the Zoom platform. February 2-5, 2023 “…that strange being, the Creative Writer.” -S. Freud in Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming (1908) The enormous creativity of the unconscious mind is the raw material of both poetry and psychoanalysis.  Ever since Freud began to publish his startling new ideas about the existence […]

New Directions – “Sisterhood”

Via Zoom

May 5-7, 2023 Before women had access to capital in the public sphere, powerful sibling bonds and deep female friendships were captured in the literary imagination. Now, on the streets and in blog communities, feminist collectives of all genders inspire resistance projects that are reshaping the meaning of sisterhood. This conference will consider the representation […]

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