Endings and Beginnings

Organised by:

Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London, UK

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About the conference

All living things have finite lifespans. Human beings are no exception. What marks us out is self-awareness. Developmental phases and the generations extend and overlap. Yet, birth remains the prototype for a new beginning, as death does for an ending. The feelings evoked by these, the geological facts of life, have truly enormous power. Every birth signifies previous births, every loss, final loss.

This UCL Conference examines the psychology of beginnings and endings in psychoanalytic depth.

Speakers include:

Starting out in Life

Becky Hall (Association of Child Psychotherapists and British Psychoanalytic Association, UK)

The Echo of Time in Analysis

Elizabeth Gibb (British Psychoanalytical Society)

Known By Another: the foundations of self-knowledge

David Taylor (British Psychoanalytical Society, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, University College London, UK)

Paradigm Change for the Psyche: the end of the beginning?

Ronald Britton (British Psychoanalytical Society, UK), Karen Yirmiya (University College London and Anna Freud, UK), and Peter Fonagy (University College London, UK)

More information: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/events/2024/nov/endings-and-beginnings

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