Saturday 10 November 2018
9.15am to 5pm
The Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire (Martello Suite)
The EC of APPI are delighted to present ‘Man Deserts – Where Have All The Fathers Gone?’ This event will be co-hosted with IFPP. The conference will debate the propositions in Rob Weatherill’s book The Anti-Oedipus Complex, Lacan, Critical Theory and Postmodernism (Routledge 2017) and will consider the relevance of the symbolic father in contemporary psychoanalysis. The event will take place in The Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire on Saturday 10 November 2018 from 9am to 5pm. We are pleased to welcome Dorothee Bonnigal-Katz, a psychoanalyst living and working in London, who will speak at the event.Dorothee recently presented a paper entitled From Machismo to Medusa: The Question of Masculinity and Maternal Omnipotence at ‘The Fragile Phallus’; an event at the Freud Museum in London which examined the notions of ‘fragile’ and ‘toxic’ masculinity. We are also delighted to have strong representations from APPI on our speaking panels and we look forward to a lively day of energetic debate and engagement.
Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz is a psychoanalyst and a translator. She is a member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, UKCP, CPJA and CP–UK. She is the founder and clinical lead of the Psychosis Therapy Project, a specialist psychoanalytic therapy project for people experiencing psychosis. Her work as a translator includes a number of psychoanalytic texts such as Dominique Scarfone’s Laplanche: An Introduction (2015) and The Unpast: The Actual Unconscious (2016). Her latest translation, Laurence Kahn’s Apathy, Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Patient recently came out in the New Library of Psychoanalysis series (Routledge, 2018).