Psychanalyser à l’université
(Upcoming, 2024)
(Oct. 2023)
(Nov, 2020)
Hello, I’m Jake Clwyd Roberts - a writer and researcher working to communicate psychoanalytic thought through my work as the Research Director of the publishing platform,PEP-Web, Outreach Officer for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and previously for UCL’s Psychoanalysis Unit.
Further, venturing beyond the walls of the clinic raises pertinent questions concerning the very foundations of psychoanalysis as a field of enquiry. Namely, how is it promulgated, taught, learnt? Who by, and who for? And ultimately - to what purpose?
In my own research I am interested in the transmission of psychoanalysis outside of its - primarily clinical - context. My current work centers on historicising the question of the university in the psychoanalytic discourse immediately following Mai ‘68. Looking at French analysts such as Jean Laplanche, Piera Aulagnier, and Serge Leclaire, can this question continue to hold relevance for contemporary psychoanalysis?
Further, venturing beyond the walls of the clinic raises pertinent questions concerning the very foundations of psychoanalysis as a field of enquiry. Namely, how is it promulgated, taught, learnt? Who by, and who for? And ultimately - to what purpose?
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During my studies I founded the public research project, Lockdown Dreams, which sought to document the lived experience of the coronavirus pandemic through the content of our dreams - Interview for the Observer.