Why antisemitism?
Two day conference organizedby the Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society
In collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Athen
With the support of the Embassy of Israel in Greece, the Central Board of the Jewish Communities in Greece, the Jewish Museum of Greece
The conference will take place in the Goethe Institute in Athens
Speakers: Marilia Aisenstein, Αthanassios Alexandridis, Ariella Asser, Heleni Berner, Chryssi Giannoulaki, Sotiris Manolopoulos, Stavroula Berati, Claire Synodinou, Nikos Tzavaras [Psychoanalysts, members of the Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society]
Guest speaker: Eran Rolnik [Psychoanalyst, member of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society]
PROGRAMME
Friday, March 14
19:00
Welcome by the representative of Goethe-Institut
Welcome by the president of the HPS, Stavroula Berati
Filmshowing:Night and Fog (1955) directed by Alain
Resnais (voice over in Greek,English subtitles)
20:00-22.00
Eran Rolnik“History and the Unconscious: The place of trauma
in the development of psychoanalysis in Israel.”
Discussant: Nikos Tzavaras
Saturday, March 15
10:15-12:15
Ariella Asser “Psychoanalysis in the anti-Semitic turbulence”
Claire Synodinou “Duty of linking – Duty of memory”
Athanassios Alexandridis “Anti-Semitism as a death narcissism”
Chryssi Giannoulaki “Antisemitic mythology and propaganda: the case of a film”
12:15 Break
12:45 -14:30
Marilia Aisenstein “On obedience: The pathology of conformism”
Heleni Brener “Antisemitism in psychoanalytic material in Vienna. Findings of an international working group”
Sotiris Manolopoulos “Judas on fire”
14:30-16:00 Break
16:00-18:00 Film showing: THE SPECIALIST. Portrait of a Modern Criminal, by Eyal Sivan&Rony Brauman Documentary 1999 . [Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem]
(in English, German, Hebrew, with Greek subtitles)
18:00 – 19:00
Ariella Asser-Nikos Tzavaras :Comments on the film The Specialist
19:00-19:30 Closing session – Final discussion-
The conference is an attempt at a psychoanalytic approach to one of the most painful historical phenomena, that of the brutalization of the human civilization.
Although the interpretation of a relentless crime, indelibly inscribed in the collective memory, cannot possibly be limited to a psychoanalytical approach, the Hellenic Psychoanalyical Society, whose origins are based on the Freudian work, feels that it should present a part of the ongoing discussion within the international psychoanalytic movement on the always present anti-Semitic prejudice.
Central speaker on the first day of the conference will be Eran Rolnik, Israelipsychoanalyst and historian, whose work has gained international acclaim. Duringthe next day, Greek psychoanalysts will focus on different aspects of the subject aimimg at an active dialogue with the audience.