Episodes
Wednesday Dec 21, 2011
Richard Crow - Radio Schreber, Soliloques for Schziophonic (extract), 20.4.2011
Wednesday Dec 21, 2011
Wednesday Dec 21, 2011
Richard Crow - Radio Schreber, Soliloques for Schziophonic (extract), 20.4.2011
Phantasmic voices of Radio Schreber: Richard Crow, Gabriel Séverin, Anna Teresa Scheer, Nick Couldry, Adam Bohman, Douglas Park and others who remain obscure and unknown...
Radio Schreber, Soliloques for Schziophonic voices investigates
the recurring theme of ‘hearing voices’ in sonic and literary
works by paying homage to Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My
Nervous Illness. Written in 1903 during his second mental illness
at Sonnenstein Public asylum, the Memoirs detail an alternate
delusional world famously analysed by Freud in his Psycho-analytic
Notes on An Autobiographical account of a case of paranoia
(Dementia Paranoides) published in 1911.
For the centenary of Schreber’s death (and Freud’s Psychoanalytic
Notes), a sound performance by artist Richard Crow
will give voice to Schreber’s visionary text through a specially
created composition that will be premiered at the Freud Museum
London. As a continuation of his project, Imaginary Hospital
Radio, Richard Crow will work in collaboration with sound-poet
Gabriel Séverin in exploring a sonic tableaux of phantasmic and
disembodied voices embedded in the text as well as in its physical
and imaginary locations inhabited by Schreber.
Presented by Sound Threshold. Curated by Lucia Farinati with the assistance of Rita Correddu.
Recorded by Colin Potter.
Tuesday Dec 06, 2011
ADULT LOVE AND ITS ROOTS IN INFANCY - Part 4 of 4
Tuesday Dec 06, 2011
Tuesday Dec 06, 2011
Day Conference at the Tavistock Centre, London on 3rd December 2011 - a four part podcast. Part 4 of 4: Estela Welldon - The Dangers of First Love This conference investigated adult love by bringing together the worlds of psychoanalysis, literature, and performance. The most sublime, exhilarating and painful of emotions, love puzzles the intellect and almost defies description. It motivates the best and worst of us, overwhelming us with the ferocity of its demands, while thwarted love and perverse love are at the heart of much violent behaviour and neurotic suffering. Psychoanalysis unlocks the mystery of love by tracing its roots to childhood. The conference will be of interest to anyone involved in adult psychotherapy or counselling, and anyone who has ever been in love. ABSTRACTS Estela Welldon The first love between mother and baby will forever mark future encounters and relationships. Mother-baby love has a unique characteristic in that both parties are involved not only psychologically but also biologically. The possibility exists of a mutual and reciprocal experience of blissful and satisfying union. The expectation is of ‘unconditional love’. This is the situation in the perfect world, however things are not that simple and uncomplicated. In this talk we shall be addressing failures of that 1st love leading to violent relationships and escalating to forensic cases. Using clinical examples from both forensic and non-forensic psychotherapy this paper will show how the first experiences of love mark people for future love encounters, and how new patterns of loving can be established.
Tuesday Dec 06, 2011
ADULT LOVE AND ITS ROOTS IN INFANCY - Part 3 of 4
Tuesday Dec 06, 2011
Tuesday Dec 06, 2011
Day Conference at the Tavistock Centre, London on 3rd December 2011 - a four part podcast. Part 3 of 4: Anna Furse - When I touch the keys my flesh melts: On writing Don Juan.Who? This conference investigated adult love by bringing together the worlds of psychoanalysis, literature, and performance. The most sublime, exhilarating and painful of emotions, love puzzles the intellect and almost defies description. It motivates the best and worst of us, overwhelming us with the ferocity of its demands, while thwarted love and perverse love are at the heart of much violent behaviour and neurotic suffering. Psychoanalysis unlocks the mystery of love by tracing its roots to childhood. The conference will be of interest to anyone involved in adult psychotherapy or counselling, and anyone who has ever been in love. ABSTRACTS Anna Furse The theatre production Don Juan.Who?/Don Juan.Kdo? (Athletes of the Heart with Mladinsko, Ljubljana and Riverside Studios 2008) was created in an especially assembled private 'cyberstudio' where geographically dispersed collaborators wrote confessionally and anonymously for 18 months to produce a performance text on the Don Juan archetype. An online masquerade, the project aimed to get under the skin of PC and reveal how the nomadic, priapic, irresponsible seducer lurks in women - and men's - minds. As the company met weekly to write on this theme, the actual erotic of the writing process began to reveal itself, as well the pleasure in cross-dressing at will, being interrupted, merging with others, and getting lost in the 'ballroom' of cyberspace.
Tuesday Dec 06, 2011
ADULT LOVE AND ITS ROOTS IN INFANCY - Part 1 of 4
Tuesday Dec 06, 2011
Tuesday Dec 06, 2011
Day Conference at the Tavistock Centre, London on 3rd December 2011 - a four part podcast. Part 1 of 4: Lisa Appignanesi (Chair) - All About Love & Introductory Remarks and Bernard Barnett Psychoanalytic Love, Real Love and Love in Anna Karenina. This conference investigated adult love by bringing together the worlds of psychoanalysis, literature, and performance. The most sublime, exhilarating and painful of emotions, love puzzles the intellect and almost defies description. It motivates the best and worst of us, overwhelming us with the ferocity of its demands, while thwarted love and perverse love are at the heart of much violent behaviour and neurotic suffering. Psychoanalysis unlocks the mystery of love by tracing its roots to childhood. The conference will be of interest to anyone involved in adult psychotherapy or counselling, and anyone who has ever been in love. ABSTRACTS Bernard Barnett In my paper I will discuss the nature of love (and to a lesser extent of hate) and take a fresh look at the psychoanalytic relationship and especially the the paradox of psychoanalytic love. I will draw on the work of Freud, Winnicott, Shakespeare, Hardy and especially Tolstoy and with the use of material from one of my own patients, I will explore a few of the many different kinds of love and arrive at some tentative conclusions.