Sexuality beyond Consent. A Discussion between Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou and Dr Barnaby Barratt

Join us for a discussion between two eminent psychoanalysts Dr. Avgi Saketpoulou and Dr. Barnaby Barratt as they delve deeper into Dr. Saketopoulou's book.

About Avgi Saketopoulou

Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou is a Cypriot and Greek psychoanalyst based in New York. She is on faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she also trained, and teaches in other psychoanalytic institutes. Her published work has received several psychoanalytic awards, such as the annual JAPA Essay Prize, the Ruth Stein Prize, the Symonds Essay Prize, and the Ralph Roughton Award while her interview on relational psychoanalysis is in the permanent collection of the Freud Museum in Vienna. In 2022, she received Div.39’s Scholarship and Research Award and her essay, co-authored with Dr. Ann Pellegrini, received the first Tiresias Essay Prize from the IPA’s Sexual and Gender Diversities Studies Committee. That work will appear in a forthcoming volume titled "Gender Without Identity" coming out in Spring 2023 from the Unconscious in Translation Press. Dr. Saketopoulou’s monograph, "Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia" is published by the Sexual Cultures Series, NYU Press.

About Barnaby Barratt

Dr Barnaby B Barratt is a senior psychoanalyst, practicing in Johannesburg, and author of 11 books and over 70 professional articles and reviews. His trilogy on psychoanalysis won a recent award for best theoretical work in psychoanalysis. The trilogy consists of 'What is Psychoanalysis?' (2013), 'Radical Psychoanalysis' (2016), and 'Beyond Psychotherapy' (2019) all published by Routledge. In addition, his 1984 and 1993 books on psychoanalytic philosophy were republished recently as part of Routledge's 'classic writings' series. He is currently writing both on rethinking sexuality and on the relevance or irrelevance of psychoanalysis in the Global South.