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Freud Café Canada

The Freud Café

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.

Are you Empathic?

Friday, May 31, 2024: 6:30 to 8:00pm (ET)

** An in-person coffee house event in downtown Toronto at Creeds Coffee Bar: 450 Dupont St, Toronto, ON M5R 3P3
Registration is not required. Arrive in good time to reserve your seat. The event starts promptly at 6:30pm.

Join us for an experiential evening with Canadian psychoanalyst, Joshua Levy, who invites us to explore:
Are you empathic? Let us think about examples. What leads to disruptions during the empathic process? Is empathy teachable?

Joshua Levy, Ph.D., C.Psych., is the oldest training and supervising analyst at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute and on the Faculty of the Toronto Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published in the areas of learning to understand and working with dreams during the analytic process and learning to appreciate multiple analytic perspectives, as well as being involved in day-long workshops on analytic listening. At present, he is guiding a study group on psychoanalytic supervision.

With Vivienne Pasieka, psychoanalyst, moderating.

Previous Presentations from The Freud Café

January 20, 2024 – The Leader’s Hypnotic Influence and the Creation of Alternate Reality

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November 18, 2023 – Life and Death in the Metaverse

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May 13, 2023 – Shakespeare’s Prefiguring of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Reverie: The Dream within the Dream

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September 8, 2022 – Propaganda and the Lies We Tell Ourselves

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March 5, 2022 – A Freud Café Dialogue in an Age of Bewilderment

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October 29, 2021 – The Freud Café Fright Night – “And Things That Go Bump in the Night…” (& why we love them)

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April 7, 2021 – Why the Couch? Psychoanalysis: From Freud to the Digital Age

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April 12, 2017 – Hold Me: In Mind & in Reality

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March 27, 2017 – Love, Relationships and Gender in the Times of Social Media

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January 30, 2017 – In the Beginning was the Name: The Language of the Unconscious

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November 23, 2016 – Psychoanalysis and Mysticism: Friends or Foes?

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September 12, 2016 – The Traumatic Loneliness of Children

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June 1, 2016 – Why do we Need to Remember our Dreams?

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May 2, 2016 – Coupling: A psychoanalytic point of view

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March 21, 2016 – The Psychology of Sport / The Psychoanalysis of Hockey

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September 28, 2015 – Of Human Bondage and Jokes

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May 21, 2015 – Whose unconscious is it anyway? – A user’s guide, from Freud to more recent ideas about the unconscious

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March 19, 2015 – Sibling Rivalry in Jane Austen’s Fiction, a psychoanalytic reading

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January 29, 2015 – Hostile and Malignant Prejudice: Or Why it May be Easier to Hate Your Neighbour

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November 13, 2014 – On Guilt and Conscience: Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents — A Kleinian Re-View

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September 23, 2014 – Oedipus, Aristotle and Freud

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May 22, 2014 – Freud and Plato: Plato’s Anticipations of Freud’s Psychology of Dreams in the Republic

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For more information about and for registration in the tps&i Extension Programs, Scientific Meetings, Training Programs, Study and Supervision groups and Special Presentations, please visit our website: torontopsychoanalysis.com or email info@torontopsychoanalysis.com

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