Irma Brenman Pick Memorial Lecture: Alessandra Lemma on The Vicissitudes of Hope

The Johannesburg Psychoanalytic Clinic and UBUBELE invite you to a Memorial Lecture to commemorate Irma Brenman-Pick

Alessandra Lemma: The Vicissitudes of Hope

An Exploration of the Capacity to Prevail

Event details

• 17 October 2024
• 19:30 SAST - 21:30 SAST
• Buy tickets online via Quicket. Ticket holders will receive Zoom link for Webinar. Webinar will be recorded.
• South African colleagues: R330 (2 CPD points for HPCSA members)
• International colleagues: £30 / R700

All proceeds go towards the Johannesburg Psychoanalytic Clinic, which offers low-fee and pro bono psychoanalysis to the Johannesburg community.

About the talk

Alessandra Lemma is a world-renowned Psychoanalyst and Clinical Psychologist and was the 2022 Sigourney Award recipient. She has published extensively on a very wide range of subjects and her views offer a radical, contemporary approach to classical psychoanalytic theories. 

Lemma's paper on hope looks to understand how trauma impacts the way we use our minds and in particular how trauma affects our capacity to prevail against despair. She identifies what she understands as a spectrum for the capacity for hope – a more mature capacity on the one end and a more persecuted capacity on the other.

Commemorating Irma Brenman Pick

Please join us online to commemorate British/South African Psychoanalyst Irma Brenman Pick.

Irma Brenman Pick was a South African born, British trained psychoanalyst. She had a long and illustrious career and made a significant contribution to the canon of Psychoanalysis. 

Irma also had a long history of opposition to apartheid and was centrally active in supporting Psychoanalysis in South Africa. She was and will always be remembered as a beloved and respected colleague.