“The communists believe…”
“The communists believe…”
an online round table
with Hannah Black, Elena Comay del Junco, Ciarán Finlayson, Max Fox, Yahya Madra, Hannah Proctor, Ghalya Saadawi, Nica Siegel, Juliana Spahr, and Gabriel Tupinambá
Convened by Ethan Philbrick
Saturday, July 19th 2025
3 pm - 5 pm NYC
12 pm - 2 pm Oakland
8 pm - 10 pm London
10 pm - 12 am Athens
Sliding scale: $5 - $150
No one turned away for a lack of funds. Please email psychosocial.foundation@gmail.com to secure your spot.
Description:
There is a paragraph nestled about two-thirds of the way through Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) that begins, “The communists believe that they have found the path to deliverance from our evils.” The paragraph, while ultimately dismissive of the communists and their beliefs, offers a condensed and ambivalent meditation on the relationship between private property, the family, aggression, and desire, as well as the relationship more broadly between psychoanalysis and the critique of capitalism. For this online round table, a group of ten writers, each in some way positioned at the juncture between psychoanalysis and communist thought, will offer roughly 500-word responses to Freud’s paragraph before joining each other for a conversation about psychoanalysis and communism.
“The communists believe…”
an online round table
with Hannah Black, Elena Comay del Junco, Ciarán Finlayson, Max Fox, Yahya Madra, Hannah Proctor, Ghalya Saadawi, Nica Siegel, Juliana Spahr, and Gabriel Tupinambá
Convened by Ethan Philbrick
Saturday, July 19th 2025
3 pm - 5 pm NYC
12 pm - 2 pm Oakland
8 pm - 10 pm London
10 pm - 12 am Athens
Sliding scale: $5 - $150
No one turned away for a lack of funds. Please email psychosocial.foundation@gmail.com to secure your spot.
Description:
There is a paragraph nestled about two-thirds of the way through Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) that begins, “The communists believe that they have found the path to deliverance from our evils.” The paragraph, while ultimately dismissive of the communists and their beliefs, offers a condensed and ambivalent meditation on the relationship between private property, the family, aggression, and desire, as well as the relationship more broadly between psychoanalysis and the critique of capitalism. For this online round table, a group of ten writers, each in some way positioned at the juncture between psychoanalysis and communist thought, will offer roughly 500-word responses to Freud’s paragraph before joining each other for a conversation about psychoanalysis and communism.
“The communists believe…”
an online round table
with Hannah Black, Elena Comay del Junco, Ciarán Finlayson, Max Fox, Yahya Madra, Hannah Proctor, Ghalya Saadawi, Nica Siegel, Juliana Spahr, and Gabriel Tupinambá
Convened by Ethan Philbrick
Saturday, July 19th 2025
3 pm - 5 pm NYC
12 pm - 2 pm Oakland
8 pm - 10 pm London
10 pm - 12 am Athens
Sliding scale: $5 - $150
No one turned away for a lack of funds. Please email psychosocial.foundation@gmail.com to secure your spot.
Description:
There is a paragraph nestled about two-thirds of the way through Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) that begins, “The communists believe that they have found the path to deliverance from our evils.” The paragraph, while ultimately dismissive of the communists and their beliefs, offers a condensed and ambivalent meditation on the relationship between private property, the family, aggression, and desire, as well as the relationship more broadly between psychoanalysis and the critique of capitalism. For this online round table, a group of ten writers, each in some way positioned at the juncture between psychoanalysis and communist thought, will offer roughly 500-word responses to Freud’s paragraph before joining each other for a conversation about psychoanalysis and communism.