University as Transitional Space |

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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?