Turbulent Times 2018 Freud Conference
Thursday, March 15, 2018
FREUD CONFERENCE 2018
TURBULENT TIMES:
Populism and the attack on knowledge elites
psychoanalytic and political science perspectives
8.30 – 18.00 Saturday 26th May
The Melbourne Brain Centre
Kenneth Myer Building
30 Royal Parade, Parkville
CONTRIBUTING PANELIST
DR ALLAN SHAFER, clinical psychologist, D Litt et Phil,
is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and clinical
supervisor in Melbourne and a socioanalytic
organisation consultant and group relations consultant.
He is a member of the Victorian Association of
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists and past President
of Group Relations Australia. Allan has directed or
consulted on the staff of Tavistock-style group
relations conferences in Australia, the UK, India,
China, Israel and Poland and has a particular interest
in the dynamics of social systems.
Between now and the conference, we will be
posting articles and media relevant to the
conference as they arise. The blog allows you to
engage in the conversation by posting comments
or a reply: we look forward to your input.
The Freud Conference blog also provides
detailed CVs and publication lists of the speakers,
with links to their publications and sources.
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EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION
cut-off date: Wednesday March 28, 2018
CANCELLATION POLICY
Refunds (less $50.00 administration fee)
will only be given for cancellations received by Monday 7th May, 2018. No refunds after this date.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
MR PHIL STOKOE is a Psychoanalyst, Fellow of the
Institute of Psychoanalysis, Training Analyst with the British Psychotherapy
Foundation and in private practice
working with adults and couples, and an Organisational Consultant,
providing consultation to a wide range of organisations.
Phil worked as a Consultant Social Worker and Senior
Lecturer in the Adult Department of the Tavistock &
Portman NHS Foundation Trust from 1994 to 2012
nishing as Clinical Director. He writes and teaches
on a wide range of topics including Psychoanalytic
understanding of society and politics. Phil is also a
regular contributor on David Morgan’s Political Mind
radio/podcast.
DR RICHARD CHAUVEL is an honorary fellow at the Asia
Institute, the University of Melbourne. Prior to joining the Asia Institute,
he had taught at the Universities
of Indonesia and Sydney as well as
Victoria University. Richard’s research has focused on political and social change in eastern
Indonesia, particularly in Maluku and Papua, together with Australia-Indonesia relations. At the University of Indonesia, he taught Australian
History and Politics, 1987-1992. He is a graduate of the
University of Sydney and the School of Oriental and
African Studies in London. Richard also has an extensive
list of publications which are linked on the blog.
09.15 – 10.45 Chair: Ms Roslyn Webb
MR PHIL STOKOE
WHERE HAVE ALL THE ADULTS GONE?
This paper draws upon psychoanalytic ideas,
particularly those developed through the study
of groups and organizations, to develop a model
for understanding the apparently xenophobic and
nationalistic behaviour of large numbers of voters in
rst world democracies across the globe.
This will involve analyzing the fallacies of the
free market philosophy.
14.00 – 15.30 Chair: Dr Peter Smith
MR PHIL STOKOE
THINKING IN THE FUNDAMENTALIST
STATE OF MIND
A common statement that Kleinian psychoanalysts
make about the paranoid schizoid state of mind is that
thinking is hated and certainty is preferred. Phil will
argue that this state of mind is exactly the one that
operates in fundamentalism. He will try to show, in
more detail, how processes that appear to be thinking
can take place in this state of mind and yet conform
to that statement about hatred of thinking and
admiration for certainty.
10.45 – 11.15 Morning tea
15.30 – 15.50 Afternoon break
11.15 – 12.45 Chair: Dr John Boots
DR RICHARD CHAUVEL
NATURE OR NURTURE: DO OUR RACIST AND
XENOPHOBIC SENTIMENTS SIMPLY MIRROR THE
TRUMP AND BREXIT PHENOMENON?
This paper will examine whether the strength of
anti-immigrant sentiments, as evidenced in the
revival in the electoral fortunes of Pauline Hanson
and continued support for successive Australian
governments’ incarceration of asylum seekers,
can be compared with the xenophobic and nationalist
sentiments that produced President Trump and the
Brexit decision. The paper will address these issues
from political and historical perspectives, and will
consider whether these sentiments are also responses
to Australia’s rapidly changing strategic environment.
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