Saturday, October 26th

10 am-12 pm

Colloquium: Freud and Free Speech: A Conversation Between Psychoanalysis and Democracy

NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Location: 40 Washington Square South, Vanderbilt Hall, NYU Law School, Room 206

Free event & open to the public

Presenters:
Jill Gentile, Ph.D., NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

John Ferejohn, Ph.D., Samuel Tilden Professor of Law, NYU Law School

Pasquale Pasquino, Ph.D., Global Distinguished Professor of Politics, NYU

Moderator of Roundtable:
Steve Botticelli, Ph.D., NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Roundtable Participant:
Seth Warren, Ph.D., Director, Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey

Abstract:
Both psychoanalysts and Americans tend to take free speech as a core value. But today, with psychoanalysis’ relational turn, free association is seldom discussed. Meanwhile, recent controversial Court decisions have challenged (if not degraded) the status of the First Amendment. We’ll contemplate…