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 II: Reduction and Resistance:

Amia Srinivasan's second lecture will examine the place of psychoanalysis and other reductive discourses in the interpersonal and public spheres, asking whether such discourses can be reconciled with the duty to treat each other as rational persons.

Together, the lectures will ask how psychoanalysis can deepen our understanding of trauma, identity, and freedom in political life.

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