Thu, 28 Aug
|Norman Gregg Lecture Theatre
Prof. Joy Damousi
Time & Location
28 Aug 2025, 1:00 pm – 2:20 pm
Norman Gregg Lecture Theatre, Edward Ford Building, A27.02.221, USYD Camperdown Campus
About the event
Title
Psychoanalysis in Australia: A History
Abstract
TBC
Bio
Joy Damousi is Professor of History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. She is the author of numerous books which include The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia (Cambridge, 1999); Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia (Cambridge, 2001); Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (UNSW Press, 2005; winner of the Ernest Scott Prize) and Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (Cambridge 2010).