Psychoanalysis And Science: Prof Christian Dunker And Prof Ian Parker Discuss
This event brings together Christian Dunker and Ian Parker to address the contentious status of psychoanalysis. The event is chaired by Erica Burman, Professor of Education, University of Manchester, MIE Power, Inequality, Activism group.
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Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker is a psychoanalyst and Full Professor of Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology at USP’s Institute of Psychology in São Paulo, Brasil. He is a member of the School of Forums of the Lacanian Field, twice awarded the Jabuti Prize, an article writer for Boitempo and UOL-Tilt and coordinates the Laboratory of Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at USP.
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He is the author of more than 100 scientific articles, a guest lecturer in more than 15 countries and has published 14 books, several of them in English, French and Spanish: Structure and Constitution of the Psychoanalytic Clinic (Zagodoni, 2012), Mal-Estar, Sofrimento e Sintoma (Boitempo, 2015).
Ian Parker is a psychoanalyst in Manchester, UK, Honorary Professor of Education at the University of Manchester and Secretary of Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix. He completed his training with the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) in London, and became an Analyst of the Centre in 2003. His books include Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Subjectivity (Routledge, 2011) and (with David Pavón-Cuéllar) Psychoanalysis and Revolution: Critical Psychology for Liberation Movements (1968 Press, 2021).
Special thanks go to Erica Burman, Ian Parker and Christian Dunker for making citizen learning welcome at their events. It is their kind of embodiment of openness, inclusion and intellectual curiosity that reveals possible worlds as practical, and societies as connections between people rather than numbers on spreadsheets.
Alex Dunedin