Amia Srinivasan's lectures will explore the intersection of psychoanalysis and politics, examining how attention to the complexities of the human psyche might inform the collective human task of living together. 

Lecture I: Trauma and Identification:

In her first lecture, Srinivasan will discuss psychoanalytic explanations of political violence in terms of unprocessed historical trauma, and the ethics of traumatic transmission and identification as it concerns historically oppressed groups.

Commentators:

• Dagmar Herzog, Distinguished Professor, History, Social Welfare, Women's and Gender Studies, City University of New York
• Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities, Columbia University
• Richard Moran, Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
• Jacqueline Rose, Professor of Humanities and Co-Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities