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Cassandra’s Message Pt 1 – Nuclear Threat and Climate Catastrophe. The Endgame?
Chaired by Harriet Wolfe IPA President Psychoanalyst (US)
Speaker: Charles Strozier Psychoanalyst (US) with David Morgan Psychoanalyst (UK)
Panel: Psychoanalysts Jill Gentile (US), Phil Stokoe (UK) Sally Weintrobe (UK) and Ecologist Andrew Gaines (AUS)
Freud watching the rise of fascism in the 1930’s and the inevitability of another World War wrote in a discussion with Einstein ‘Why War?’ that it was due to man’s “instinct for hatred and destruction”, co-existing with the instinct “to preserve and unite”,
We are currently once again in an endgame seemingly dominated by self-destruction this time through climate catastrophe or the threat of nuclear war. Why do our elected leaders turn a blind eye and why do we accept it?
Cassandra’s Message Pt 2 – Nuclear and Climate Catastrophe. John Keene – Human Instinct and the Survival or Destruction of Life on this Planet
Chaired by David Morgan
Speaker: John Keene
Panel: Psychoanalysts Harriet Wolfe, IPA President Psychoanalyst (US), Charles Strozier (US), Jill Gentile (US), Phil Stokoe (UK), Sally Weintrobe (UK), Activist Rob Stuart.
“Environmental crisis, climate emergency, pandemics, neofascism, unjust and destabilising inequalities, and the escalating threat of nuclear war pose existential challenges to global civilisation. It seems clear that the gaps between party politics, social movements, and intellectual life have widened, and the political system is not responding adequately.
