Annual Research Lecture 2025

Organised by:

British Psychoanalytical Society (incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis)

Description

What does research have to do with psychoanalysis?
Speaker: Gregorio Kohon

Discussant: Alessandra Lemma
Chair: Fakhry Davids

Institute of Psychoanalysis and Online

Psychic reality cannot be reduced to either the mental or the physical — the psychoanalytic object has its own characteristics, categories, and laws. Psychoanalytic theories are based on fundamental hypotheses and basic assumptions that have been arrived at through a mixture of clinical experience and self-reflection, speculative intellectual activity and intuition, free-floating attention and deduction, and the attribution of retrospective meaning and abstract representations.

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