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Abby and Patrick discuss the intersection of politics and psychoanalysis with guest Avgi Saketopoulou, focusing on recent controversies surrounding psychoanalytic institutions and their responses to events in Israel and Palestine.

Abby and Patrick welcome psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou for a frank conversation about politics, psychoanalysis, and the politics of psychoanalysts and of psychoanalytic institutions. Recent years have seen multiple psychoanalytic schools, museums, and other entities invite lecturers and panelists to discuss ongoing events in Israel and Palestine, only to then variously cancel, alter, or otherwise walk back those invitations. Avgi, who has both witnessed and been on the receiving end of such...

People in this episode

Hosts: Abby, Patrick

Guest: Avgi Saketopoulou

Topics covered

• politics
• psychoanalysis
• hospitality
• Israel
• Palestine

Keywords

• psychoanalysis
• politics
• hospitality
• Israel
• Palestine
• Avgi Saketopoulou
• cancellation
• institutions

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Places: Israel, Palestine

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