Please respond to these suggestions or make suggestions of your own. The importance of this 'event'/process is that it produces dialogue and debate, so all perspectives are welcome! ·
From childhood to adulthood - is the university more about a process of discovery and growth rather than education? The first drug use, homosexual encounter, experience of radical politics. Has the dramatic change in political culture changed universities into over-regulated concretized spaces without potential?
The university as a ‘good enough’ environment; teaching psychoanalysis as providing a space for not knowing; who is ‘qualified’ to do this?
Is it possible to provide a space for ‘play’ in the university setting? How does this affect the quality of learning?
· How much does the university of setting override the notion of the teacher (the one who brings facts)? What are the tensions between the clinic and the classroom?
How can we approach the idea of clinical ‘purism’ – the suggestion that psychoanalysis must be kept out of the university in order to survive?
(How) do universities allow us to ‘learn from experience’ (Bion)?
How do we experience the space of the university and its practices and what does this mean in terms of its potential as a transitional space?
How do we bring practices from further afield into the university setting? What are the transformational possibilities at stake here?