Pleasure, Pain & The Capacity To Relate

Psychoanalysis and the arts have always been companions: Freud draws on Sophocles and Michelangelo, Jung on Hesse, Lacan on Sophocles too. These are acts of translation between different ways of thinking and working, different ways of experiencing society and each other. In this podcast Timothy Mathews talks with renowned psychoanalyst and gender theorist Juliet Mitchell about psychoanalysis and art, about how the positions we each occupy on our own can be translated and heard. A conversation about how art and psychoanalysis speak to each other and to life. It took place as part of the UCL Festival of the Arts 2014.