Biology of Freedom

Freud hoped that brain research would offer support for his psychoanalysis theories at some point in the future: both disciplines, after all, agree that experience leaves traces in the mind. But even today, in the early 21st century, all too many scientists and analysts maintain that each side has different ideas on the nature of those traces. What constitutes human experience? How does this experience shape us? And how, if at all, do we change our lives? Psychoanalysis and the neurosciences have failed to communicate about these questions, when they have not been frankly antagonistic. But in a new book called The Biology of Freedom, François Ansermet and Pierre Magistretti are at last breaking new ground.

Join the authors and psychoanalyst Mark Solms in a discussion on how changes in the brain’s neural network allow experience to generate an inner reality, an unconscious psychic life unique to each individual.

Books will be signed by the authors after the discussion.

Event organised by:
The European Dana Alliance for the Brain

Speakers

Pierre Magistretti, University of Lausanne
François Ansermet, University of Lausanne
Mark Solms, International Neuro-Psychonanalysis Society
Chairman:
Tony Gilland, Institute of Ideas