BPA – The Poetic Mind Seminar
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British Psychoanalytic Association
Description
The Poetic Mind Seminar
“Ye Are Many, They Are Few: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Power of Political Poetry”
Saturday 7th June 2025 11am – 1pm In-person & Online
This is the first of a series of dialogues on the capacity for poetry and psychoanalysis to articulate the internal world.
JJ Bola (Poet)
Mary Adams (Psychoanalyst)
David Morgan (Psychoanalyst)
Chair: Catherine McKisack (Psychoanalyst)
Poetry has always been a weapon of resistance, a medium for protest, and a beacon of hope. From Homer’s Iliad to W.H. Auden, from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s rallying cries to JJ Bola’s contemporary urgent verses on migration and displacement, political poetry, has shaped and reshaped the human experience of power, injustice, and collective action.
These papers and poetry readings from JJ Bola examine the transformative power of political poetry through the lens of psychoanalysis, exploring how it resonates in the unconscious and mobilises movements for change.
Poetry readings by JJ BOLA
An Exploration of the Power of Political Poetry: Voices of Protest, Resistance, and Hope
By Psychoanalyst David Morgan
Poetry and re-imagining in a time of crisis ‘Changing the very terms of the dilemma’
By Psychoanalyst Mary Adams
