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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 and Western Canada Psychoanalytic Society and Institute presents:

FREE public talks on psychoanalytic ideas by Canadian psychoanalysts with an open discussion about their impact on our lives today.

Freud Café Canada

The Leader’s Hypnotic Influence and the Creation of Alternate Reality

Saturday, January 20, 2024: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (ET) / 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (PT)

** DISTANCE PARTICIPATION: A free online event via Zoom, in collaboration with WCPSI outreach.
Preregistration is required.
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Canadian psychoanalyst Endre Koritar will join Irish analyst Ian Miller for an engaging discussion about how psychoanalysis helps us understand what the speakers refer to as “the Trump phenomenon.” Their dialogue will investigate the relationship between the individual psyche and the culture of the populace (i.e., the polis). It will consider the complex effect of Donald Trump on his followers, specifically, the underlying dynamics of hypnotic influence and the creation of an alternate reality.

Endre Koritar, MD, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst with the Western Canada Psychoanalytic Institute, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Dept Psychiatry. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Sándor Ferenczi Network, the National Council of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, the National Training Committee, and is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Ian Miller, PhD, is a clinical psychologist/ psychoanalyst, Dublin, Ireland, an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis and a member of the Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He is the author of several books on psychoanalysis, including On Minding and Being Minded (2015) and co- author of Beckett and Bion, The (Im) Patient Voice in Psychotherapy and Literature (2013) and Clinical Spinoza (2022).

With Bradley Murray, psychoanalyst, moderating.

Previous Presentations from The Freud Café

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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