Studies in prejudice

Event synopsis: This two-day conference, supported by the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism (Birkbeck, University of London), Birkbeck College, University of London and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies of the University of Essex, will bring together historians, social theorists and psychoanalysts to explore the impact of the Second World War and totalitarianism on psychoanalysis, and of psychoanalysis on the understanding of the war and totalitarian systems. The conference programme is now available to download - see below. Topics include: the role of psychoanalysis in the war effort, military intelligence and in postwar reconstruction the crisis of psychoanalysis in Central Europe the work of Hannah Arendt and other theorists of totalitarianism cultural anthropology, fascism and the Cold War visions of the child and the creation of the War Nurseries the psychoanalytic sociology of the Frankfurt School war and the origins of group therapy neo-Freudianism the psychoanalytic theorization of anti-Semitism mourning, memory and trans-generational trauma Winnicott and the social democratic vision