The Fay Lectures | The Path Between Parts: Reciprocity in Times of War (Hybrid)

Encounter the importance of the Other, and what happens to the Self when our paths to connection are lost. In situations of great danger, we are presented with a moral dilemma. The will to live endures; not only as a minimal form of life for the individual, but as the will to live a life together with others. These Others may be distant, yet their suffering is not only potentially recognizable, but perceptible and part of our own psychological experience. However, consumerism has limited the scope of empathy and morality, often unconsciously reducing the other to a self-object that may thus become irrelevant. This loss of the Other – of the physical human to the wages of war, and of our relational capacities of empathy and compassion to the wages of consumerism – lays an unconscious claim on our psyche. In this “time out of joint”, the myth of the sovereign subject and of individual separability is uncomfortably confronted with its own limits. Through the lens of recent medical and analytical experiences in Sudan, Gaza, and Egypt, Jungian analyst Antonio Karim Lanfranchi will explore these themes and pose the question: is a Tiqqun (a healing of the world) still possible?