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Bob Hinshelwood Seminar

September 11 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

$60 – $75

A Freudian Slip? How to apply the Vienna/Zurich Dynami

Mergers between organisations in any field – finance, manufacturing, retail – can evoke significant anxiety, both conscious and unconscious. Apparently, similar organisations will differ in their authority structures and cultures. Individuals and groups within the merging organisations are likely to have anxiety about loss of status, of group identity and of attachment to leaders. These anxieties can play out in the merger process, and continue to affect the work of the merged organisation.

Our speaker, Bob Hinshelwood, is an eminent British psychoanalyst and a Professor Emeritus of Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. Over a long period, he has made invaluable contributions to the field of therapeutic communities, Kleinian psychoanalysis and the history of psychoanalysis.

In September, he will present a paper on the intergroup relations between Freud’s group and Jung’s Zürich group, considered from the perspective of intergroup dynamics. A follow-up session on the subject of organisational mergers will be announced shortly.

‘The Vienna-Zürich dynamic’ The deterioration in the relations between Freud and Jung around 1909–1913 is usually attributed to personal differences between those two leading figures. In this presentation, I am interested in exploring a deeper dynamic that involved the clash between the social defence systems of Freud’s group and the Jung/Bleuler group. The stresses involved in working with neurotic patients (Vienna) and psychotic patients (Zürich) were probably different, and how each of the two groups coped was therefore different. This is potentially an interesting example of the meeting of alternative unconscious cultures evolved to meet different work anxieties. Does its failure 100 years ago help with problems of organisational mergers today? – Bob Hinshelwood.

Time Zones:

  • Australia – Wednesday 11 September 2024, 6.30 – 8:00 PM AEST
  • New Zealand – Wednesday 11 September 2024, 8.30 – 10.00 pm NZST
  • UK- Wednesday 11 September 2024, 9.30 – 11.00 am BST
  • Europe – Wednesday 11 September 2024, 10.30 – 12.00 pm CEST
  • India – Wednesday 11 September 2024, 2.00 – 3.30 pm IST
  • China/Singapore/Hong Kong – Wednesday 11 September 2024, 4.30 – 6.00 pm CST/SGT/HKT
  • New York – Wednesday 11 September 2024, 4.30 – 6.00 am EDT

Cost:

Members $60.00
Non-Members: $75.00

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Date:
September 11
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
$60 – $75
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