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Connections and Conversation: Belonging and its Discontents – Eyal Rozmarin, Ph.D.
April 6, 2024 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PDT
series: connections and conversation
Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting, cultivating creativity and freedom of thought and feeling. We invite you to engage with our presenters and community as they share their interests and passions in conversation on current topics in psychoanalysis.
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Belonging and its Discontents
Saturday, April 6th from 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PST
For a long time, I have been interested in the relations between individuals and collectives: the groups they are, and feel, part of; the groups they identify with, and in the act of identifying, becoming who they are. In other words, I’ve been interested in belonging: in how we are forced and-or choose belong, and in what the power-desire knots of belonging do to us. The paper I will be presenting is about my own difficult belonging with the warring collectives that lay claims to the territory I was born in, a territory known by the already revealing dual name: Israel-Palestine. The difficulty was there from the start, but it has been increasing. It has become a permanent identity crisis. The state of exception Walter Benjamin speaks of is now the rule. It is how I feel my very own self now. I believe that many of us are going through something similar in these times of wars of extinction in the Middle East and Europe, and arguably the entire planet: who do we belong with, which also means who we are. I hope my paper could serve as a springboard for us to to think together about the life and death paradoxes of belonging, and how we might address them going forward.
Eyal Rozmarin, Ph.D.
Eyal Rozmarin, Ph.D is a psychoanalyst and writer. He was born in Israel-Palestine and now lives in New York. He writes at the intersection of the psychological and the social-political, about subjects, collectives, and the forces that drive them, and pull them together and apart. He is Co-Editor of the book series Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis, and on the editorial boards of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Eyal teaches at the White Institute and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. His upcoming book is titled: Belonging and its Discontents.
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