Freud Conference 2023

Creating A Safe Supportive environment (CASSE) is pleased to contribute to  the  Freud Conference- Indigenous Voice/s and Psychoanalytic Listening. 

Key speakers include:

Chris Croker, Chair & Director of CASSE

Ken Lechleitner Pangarte, ex- Director and researcher of CASSE 

 Prof Melinda Hinkson

Dr  Craig San Roque, CASSE colleague

Pamela Nathan, Director of CASSE. 

Come along and join in on the important conversations- it is a timely conference in the year of the Voice for the First Nations people.

PROGRAM SESSIONS CRAIG SAN ROQUE An OLDER VOICE – Things I heard in Warlpiri Country This session, on experiences of listening in ‘crossover spaces’, draws upon Freud’s notion of unconscious intensities arising in relationships. I begin by acknowledging specific Central Australian Indigenous men/women who worked to maintain mutually beneficial good order between ‘black and white’ (kardia and yapa). I then track personal psychological moments revealing challenges, mistakes and subliminal  illuminations arising through attentive listening within Warlpiri relations.   PAMELA NATHAN Opening up the story: From soul murder to soul making on ancestral lands I draw on the psychoanalytic work of Creating A Safe Supportive Environment, CASSE, and the voices of the youth in Central Australia. I show how CASSE attempts to transform soul murder into soul making on ancestral lands. I use the work of Winnicott, Williams & Ogden who have written about the essence of authenticity, which is the inviolate homeland for the sacred. PAMELA NATHAN, CRAIG SAN ROQUE, KEN LECHLEITNER PANGARTE, CHRIS CROKER, MELINDA HINKSON and TIMOTHY KEOGH VOICES IN LAW This session brings to your attention intercultural  responsibility, accountability and the uses of law and culture. Three speakers, personally involved in such matters reflect upon social obligation, cultural morality, gender relations, care for country, crime and settlement – as understood from Australian and Indigenous law perspectives.Confusions in truth, right conduct, basic trust and law are revealed in the current Yuendumu/ Walker  Coronial Inquiry. Such confusion has psychological consequences. The case strikes at the heart. In Voices in Law we acknowledge intercultural unconscious intensities arising in ‘black/white’ relations, bringing to light passions, histories, solutions and potentials.

Please note, The Melbourne Brain Centre auditorium has a seating capacity of only 250 – register now to ensure your seat! To register, use the Book Now link below or visit www.freudconference.com