The UCL Psychoanalysis Unit presents a half-day conference focusing on thoughts on war. 2014, the year of the  hundredth anniversary of the first world war occurs in a contemporary world besieged by conflict. This conference, organised by the Psychoanalysis Unit, considers the omni-presence of war in human life and society. Psychoanalysts and academics will discuss the fundamental place of war in history and offer some approaches to understanding its continuing centrality, psychologically, socially and culturally.

Date: Friday 17 October 2014
Conference: 1pm – 5.45pm
(Registration from 12.45pm)
Drinks Reception: 5.45pm – 7pm
Venue: UCL main campus,
venueTBC
Drinks Reception: UCL main campus,
venueTBC
Admission: £15, UCL students and
staff no admission fee
For more information and to register please visit:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/events
or contact events.psychoanalysis@ucl.ac.uk
Speakers
David Leibel
‘War around Freud’’
Mary Fulbrook
‘The long shadows of Nazism:
Reverberations of war across
generations’
Hans van Wees
‘The psychology of combat in the
Iliad’
David Morgan
‘Warring States: the Terror of Peace’
Chair
Lesley Caldwell