Freud Café Canada
Between Hours/Interdisciplinary Dialogues, Toronto Psychoanalytic Society in collaboration with Community Bridges, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society presents:
FREE public talks on psychoanalytic ideas by Canadian psychoanalysts with an open discussion about their impact on our lives today.
Bethune’s Concern: the Fascist in Us
BETWEEN HOURS
Online Event
A talk by Dominique Scarfone
Saturday, September 20, 2025: 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. (ET) / 9:30 to 11:00am (PT)
** A free online event via Zoom. Preregistration is required.
Please RSVP by email to info@torontopsychoanalysis.com. Registration closes one week prior to the event.
A comment reportedly made by Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune while attending a meeting on the theme of fascism during Mao Zedong’s Long March – “The fascist that worries me most is the one I carry inside me!” – prompted Canadian psychoanalyst Dominique Scarfone to ponder: What can psychoanalysis discern in the human psyche that makes so many people responsive to far-right ideology?
Join us for an illuminating talk and open discussion on the topic!
Dominique Scarfone, MD is honorary professor at the Université de Montréal, member emeritus of the Société Psychanalytique de Montréal and honorary member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. He taught psychoanalytic theory for more than 30 years in the university. He recently retired from his practice as supervising analyst in the Institut psychanalytique de Montréal (French branch of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Institute). A former associate editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, he has published extensively, contributing numerous book chapters and more that 70 original papers in peer reviewed journals internationally. His most recent book is The Reality of the Message (New York, Unconscious in Translation Press, 2023).
With Vivienne Pasieka, PhD, psychoanalyst, moderating.
Previous Presentations from The Freud Café
March 1, 2025 – Psychoanalysis as Soul-Making
October 26, 2024 – The Revolt against Mourning: The Outlawing of Grief and the Road to Social Violence, Vengeance and War
May 31, 2024 – Are you Empathic?
January 20, 2024 – The Leader’s Hypnotic Influence and the Creation of Alternate Reality
November 18, 2023 – Life and Death in the Metaverse
May 13, 2023 – Shakespeare’s Prefiguring of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Reverie: The Dream within the Dream
September 8, 2022 – Propaganda and the Lies We Tell Ourselves
March 5, 2022 – A Freud Café Dialogue in an Age of Bewilderment
October 29, 2021 – The Freud Café Fright Night – “And Things That Go Bump in the Night…” (& why we love them)
April 7, 2021 – Why the Couch? Psychoanalysis: From Freud to the Digital Age
April 12, 2017 – Hold Me: In Mind & in Reality
March 27, 2017 – Love, Relationships and Gender in the Times of Social Media
January 30, 2017 – In the Beginning was the Name: The Language of the Unconscious
November 23, 2016 – Psychoanalysis and Mysticism: Friends or Foes?
September 12, 2016 – The Traumatic Loneliness of Children
June 1, 2016 – Why do we Need to Remember our Dreams?
May 2, 2016 – Coupling: A psychoanalytic point of view
March 21, 2016 – The Psychology of Sport / The Psychoanalysis of Hockey
September 28, 2015 – Of Human Bondage and Jokes
May 21, 2015 – Whose unconscious is it anyway? – A user’s guide, from Freud to more recent ideas about the unconscious
March 19, 2015 – Sibling Rivalry in Jane Austen’s Fiction, a psychoanalytic reading
January 29, 2015 – Hostile and Malignant Prejudice: Or Why it May be Easier to Hate Your Neighbour
November 13, 2014 – On Guilt and Conscience: Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents — A Kleinian Re-View
September 23, 2014 – Oedipus, Aristotle and Freud
May 22, 2014 – Freud and Plato: Plato’s Anticipations of Freud’s Psychology of Dreams in the Republic
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