Endings and Beginnings

About

All living things - plants as well as animals - have life cycles that are finite. Human beings are no exception. What makes us different is self-awareness: we remember a past and anticipate a future.

Developmental phases and the generations extend and overlap. Yet, birth is the indisputable prototype for a new beginning, as death is that for ending. Because of the enormous power of the feelings evoked by these, the geological facts of life, their reverberation affects every level of our being. Every birth signifies previous births, every loss, final loss.

This UCL Conference examines the psychology of beginnings and endings in psychoanalytic depth.

The Clinical Seminars 

Afternoon Clinical Seminar with David Tuckett

Friday 29 November, 15.30 - 17.00 (GMT)

Location: Senate House, London (in-person only)

Evening Clinical Seminars

Friday 29 November, 1800 - 19.45 (GMT)

Clinical Seminar Leaders include Catalina Bronstein, Peter Fonagy, Gigliola Fornari Spoto, Shirley B Hiscock, Francesca Hume, Kate Pugh, and David Taylor.

Some will be in-person at Senate House or in the seminar leaders own consulting room. Other clinical seminars will be online via Zoom. More clinical seminars may be offered online if there is demand.

Locations: please see the registration website for the location of particular clinical seminars

The Further Contributions Forum

Call for Abstracts 

The Conference Delegate Pack will include synopses of a selection of the thought-provoking work you send us, which for reasons of space or thematic continuity cannot be included in the programme. Often these come from younger contributors and/or contributors from other disciplines  – although equally, they may be established and well-known to us all. We benefit greatly from both categories.

If you have project, or a contribution relevant to the psychology of beginnings and endings, please write to us by Tuesday 29 October 2024 at events.psychoanalysis@ucl.ac.uk with an abstract/synopsis (max 500 words). Include a biographical paragraph and selected references if applicable. All the abstracts will be reviewed, and if suitable will be included in the Conference Packs. We are grateful to all the authors / contributors who send them.

Recordings

After the event itself a recording of the conference will be available to registered participants (on request) for 4 weeks