Geoff Ferguson
@geoff75.bsky.social
I'm a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, living in London in the UK. I trained nearly 40 years ago and I'm now moving towards retirement. I also teach psychoanalytic theory on a couple of psychotherapy trainings.
Last ECPS Psychoanalytic Film Club, Haneke's fascinating The White Ribbon, themes: the uncanny, the return of the repressed, fascism.
As with a therapy session, the film doesn't include answers. But sometimes we shouldn't look for answers, instead allow ourselves to be transformed by an experience.
As with a therapy session, the film doesn't include answers. But sometimes we shouldn't look for answers, instead allow ourselves to be transformed by an experience.
September 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Last ECPS Psychoanalytic Film Club, Haneke's fascinating The White Ribbon, themes: the uncanny, the return of the repressed, fascism.
As with a therapy session, the film doesn't include answers. But sometimes we shouldn't look for answers, instead allow ourselves to be transformed by an experience.
As with a therapy session, the film doesn't include answers. But sometimes we shouldn't look for answers, instead allow ourselves to be transformed by an experience.
Took part as a member in the first CityLit meeting of my Nietzsche reading group. Great group of people, with interesting contributions. I've known nothing about Nietzsche, so good to continue exploring links between psychoanalysis and continental philosophy.
September 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Took part as a member in the first CityLit meeting of my Nietzsche reading group. Great group of people, with interesting contributions. I've known nothing about Nietzsche, so good to continue exploring links between psychoanalysis and continental philosophy.
From Christina Emanuel. In 'An Accidental Pokemon Expert' (2015), she encourages us to see the individual's subjective experience within autism.
February 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
From Christina Emanuel. In 'An Accidental Pokemon Expert' (2015), she encourages us to see the individual's subjective experience within autism.
Next seminar: Aileen Alleyne 2007 The internal oppressor. External oppression leading to an inhibiting adaptive false self. Alleyne sees this as a specific structure, different to internalised oppression, the latter being internalisation of the oppressor's values.
January 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Next seminar: Aileen Alleyne 2007 The internal oppressor. External oppression leading to an inhibiting adaptive false self. Alleyne sees this as a specific structure, different to internalised oppression, the latter being internalisation of the oppressor's values.
Last seminar for the term. Heidi Keller's paper encourages us to broaden our often culturally-bound understanding of attachment theory.
December 9, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Last seminar for the term. Heidi Keller's paper encourages us to broaden our often culturally-bound understanding of attachment theory.
Haneke's The White Ribbon, set before WW1. A feeling of threat throughout the film, the uncanny sense of the return of the repressed. In this case, the return of the adult's cruelty towards their children. Do the children enact the violence that erupts in the bucolic village? We're not told.
December 3, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Haneke's The White Ribbon, set before WW1. A feeling of threat throughout the film, the uncanny sense of the return of the repressed. In this case, the return of the adult's cruelty towards their children. Do the children enact the violence that erupts in the bucolic village? We're not told.
The subject (the dreamer) is always present, as it is their desires and memories that are synthesised within the dream. Christopher Bollas is interested in the way that the dream setting and action 'handles' the dreamer. How does this handling echo the handling of the dreamer as an infant?
November 30, 2024 at 2:20 PM
The subject (the dreamer) is always present, as it is their desires and memories that are synthesised within the dream. Christopher Bollas is interested in the way that the dream setting and action 'handles' the dreamer. How does this handling echo the handling of the dreamer as an infant?