About this Event.

Psychoanalyst, Coralie Trotter, is offering a further-developed version of her paper Deconstructing the Faces of Hate: Deconstructing Hate in the Service of Exploring the Undbundling of Psychic Forces during the Pandemic and Lockdown.

Winnicott asserts that the mother hates her infant from the word go and before the infant hates. Yet Freud argues that hate is older than love with reference to the me (the infant) and a not-me. This apparent paradox reverberates through the psychoanalytic discourse on hate: The infant loves ruthlessly and only later attempts to draw blood (Winnicott); the shadow of the hated object can fall over the ego (Freud); hate does not always intend to destroy but may aim to conserve (Bollas); objects of hate never disappoint us (Kristeva); hate may be rendered irrelevant because love has become too terrifying and dangerous a prospect (Guntrip, Green).

In this webinar we will explore hate and its vicissitudes as part of a broader attempt to understand how Lockdown interrupted the binding and neutralising of psychic forces leaving us with a loosened grip on reality, living and our relationships with others particularly the ‘Stranger’.