English Speaking Weekend Conference 2025
Friday 10th October to Sunday 12th October
Please email outreach@iopa.org.uk with any questions.
The figure of Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, is the focus of the 2025 English-Speaking Conference. The final play in Sophocles’ Theban trilogy centres on Antigone, child of the incestuous union between Oedipus and Jocasta. The tragedy unfolds in the wake of civil war as Antigone resolves to bury her dead brother, in defiance of her uncle Creon’s prohibition. Sophocles’s play weaves together a number of psychoanalytic concerns: transgenerational trauma, femininity, the sibling axis, grief and the obstacles to mourning, masochism and death. Sophocles confronts us with the tragic consequences of turning a deaf ear. Our challenge now is to listen to Antigone, to hear her story, and what it brings to a contemporary psychoanalysis.
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Entry Requirements:
The English Speaking Weekend Conference is open to members and candidates of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) and its component societies, and also to members of the British Psychoanalytic Association (BPA), the European Psychoanalytic Federation (EPF) and full British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) registrants.
Psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, who are not members of these organisations may register if supported by an IPA member. A brief supporting letter from the IPA member should be sent to outreach@iopa.org.uk before registering for the conference.
Friday 10th October | The Institute of Psychoanalysis
Live dramatic reading of Antigone by Isobel Hanson and cast, followed by a reception.
Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th October | Regent’s University, Inner Circle.
Main conference
Best wishes,
Miranda Cobb (she/her)
Events and Marketing Co-ordinator | The Institute of Psychoanalysis
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