Book Launch

The Speakers

Matt ffytche is Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, and Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis and History. His critical life of Sigmund Freud was published by Reaktion Books in 2022. He is a trainee at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and an academic associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society. 

Raluca Soreanu is Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, and psychoanalyst, member of the Círculo Psicanalítico do Rio de Janeiro. Her work sits at the intersection of psychosocial studies, psychoanalysis, social theory and medical humanities. She has a particular interest in the social, political and cultural applications of psychoanalysis. She is the author of Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising (Palgrave, 2018). Between 2022 and 2027, she is leading an interdisciplinary research project FREEPSY: Free Clinics and a Psychoanalysis for the People: Progressive Histories, Collective Practices, Implications for Our Times (UKRI Frontier Research Grant). She is an Academic Associate of the Freud Museum London and Editor of the Studies in the Psychosocial series at Routledge.  

Jakob Staberg is a practising psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, and a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is an assistant professor for Comparative Literature and lecturer in Aesthetics at Södertörn University, south of Stockholm. Staberg is working in the field of aesthetics, literature, and psychoanalytic theory. He received his PhD in 2002 at Stockholm University. In 2009, Staberg published the monograph Sjukdomens estetik [The Aesthetics of Illness]. Staberg is currently working on a project that seeks to rethink the genealogy of psychoanalysis. In particular, he has devoted himself to the relationship between Freud and Ferenczi from the perspective of the problem of transference and as it is expressed in dream interpretation. He has published on this topic in the journal Psyche. Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 5(74), 2020. 

Jenny Willner is an assistant professor for Comparative Literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Her research is located at the intersection between literary theory, history of science, and psychoanalytic theory. She studied German Literature and Philosophy in Berlin and New York and earned her PhD at Freie Universität Berlin with the study Wortgewalt. Peter Weiss und die deutsche Sprache (Konstanz UP, 2014). In 2018, she organised the workshop Sándor Ferenczi. Interdisciplinary Approachesat the Center for Advanced Studies in Munich. Currently, she is completing her second monograph, which discusses the political dimension of phylogenetic speculation in Ferenczi and Freud. She has published on this topic in Psyche. Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 11(74), 2020, in RISS. Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse 94, 2020, and in Psychoanalysis and History 24(2), 2022.   

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