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The Renaissance of Psychoanalysis?

Psychoanalysis, Law, and Justice

Since its infancy, psychoanalysis has been caught up in matters of the law, fantasies of transgression and different forms of self-inflicted punishment, spurring reactions within the field of criminology.

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How do we understand the fundamental relation between the subject and the law? What might psychoanalysis and its understanding of human motives, fantasies and desire have to contribute to the “hard sciences”?

Panel: Renata Salecl, senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana and professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Leif Dahlberg, professor at Kungliga Tekniska högskolan i Stockholm. 

Moderator: Frode H. Pedersen.

The event will be held in English.

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