The Laboratory for a Feminist Listening
 

Now you need to listen!

This is a feminist space that has been born out of a frustration for what does not get to be heard and listened to properly in the clinic. Feminist ears wish to challenge psychoanalysis’ formulaic listening that wishes to confirm theoretical constructions that still serve phallocentric discourses. Psychoanalytic listening often turns a deaf ear to what falls outside its axioms, to what exposes violence and domination, to what disturbs current systems of power.

We start from Spivak’s position that "who will listen" is more crucial than "who shall speak," and advocate for an ethical, imaginative engagement of feminist ears that listen through a critical and intersectional feminist lens. 

We wish to put forward an image of a deeply involved, personally motivated analyst, whose work is intense and emotionally risky, driven by a radical ethics of love and care that breaks away from the interpersonal and the familial. A listening that de-oedipalises and decolonises psychoanalytic thinking and praxis and transforms the clinic to a space of freedom for rethinking the relations between individual and collective responsibility.

We meet monthly to share texts, thoughts and experiences within and outside the clinic; to offer support to each other and create a community. This is an open space for people who think psychoanalysis is not just a neutral tool or or neutral intervention and who do not wish to “cure” symptoms but start from the understanding that individual change and collective/social change are intertwined. We want psychoanalysis not to be insular and envision a creative clinic that restores the belief in the world. 
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These are drop-in meetings and you are free to join at any point.

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Dates: Saturday 25 April at 2pm, Saturday 30 May at 2pm, Saturday 27 June at 2pm

For further please email feministlaboratory@proton.me

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