Psychoanalysis Unit
Research Dept of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology
UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Symbolisation
Half-Day Conference
Friday 6 May 2016
12.30 - 13.00
Registration, Coffee and Tea
(Anna Freud Centre, 4-8 Rodney Street, London, N1 9JH)
13.00 - 13.10
Welcome and Introduction
Lesley Caldwell (University College London, UK)
13.10 - 14.15 Panel One: Symbolisation, Music, Culture, Politics
Chair: Sharon Morris (Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK)
“There Are Always Two Deaths”: Jean Rhys’s Haunted Imaginary
Patricia Moran (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Words, Sounds, Affects: Formation of Nonsense
Zeynep Bulut (Kings College London, UK)
Performing the Symbolism of Political Chutzpah: Putin, Trump, and Kaczyński?
Jan Kubik (University College London, UK)
14.15 - 15.00 General discussion with the audience
15.00 - 15.30
Coffee and Tea
(2nd Floor, 4-8 Rodney Street, London, N1 9JH)
15.30 - 16.45 Panel Two: Symbolisation and Psychoanalytic Approaches
Chair: Lesley Caldwell (University College London, UK)
Representation, Symbols and the Unconscious
Ken Robinson (British Psychoanalytical Society, UK)
Kleinian Approach to Symbolisation: A Brief Historical Sketch
Riccardo Steiner (British Psychoanalytical Society, UK)
The Creation of the Symbolising Mind: An Approach from the Independent
Tradition
Rachel Chaplin (British Psychoanalytical Society, UK)
Reflecting Beings
Lionel Bailly (University College London, UK)
The Concept of Mentalization in Relation to Symbolisation
Mary Target (British Psychoanalytical Society, University College London, UK)
16.45 - 17.00 Response to papers
Timothy Mathews (University College London, UK)
17.00- 17.45
General discussion with the audience
17.45
Drinks Reception