Professor Stephen Frosh and author Devorah Baum explore challenging questions of love, hate, coexistence and conflict.

How do we understand and live with complex relationships such as love and hate, coexistence and conflict?

How do ‘domestic’ relationships such as marriage endure, and how do we come to terms with deeply felt social antagonisms such as antisemitism and racism?

On Marriage sees Feeling Jewish author Devorah Baum exploring why we marry and how this ancient, highly contested practice has remained relevant to so many. In Antisemitism and Racism: Ethical Challenges for Psychoanalysis professor Stephen Frosh delves into the discipline’s uncomfortable relationship with race, despite its Jewish origins. Devorah and Stephen explore these challenging questions in a fascinating, wide-ranging discussion.

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About the speakers:

Devorah Baum is the author of Feeling Jewish and The Jewish Joke: an essay with examples (less essay, more examples). With Josh Appignanesi she is co-director, producer and performer of the films The New Man and Husband, which investigate the intimate dynamics of the filmmakers’ own marriage. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Tate Etc and the Financial Times. She is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southampton.

Stephen Frosh is Professor and Founder of the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, an Academic Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society, a Founding Member of the Association of Psychosocial Studies, and an Honorary Member of the Institute of Group Analysis. He is the author of over 20 books on psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis, including A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory (2012), Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic (2010), and The Politics of Psychoanalysis (1999). He is the series editor of Studies in the Psychosocial.