Freud's Afternoon Session – Greek Myths for a Post-truth World

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What can ancient Greek myths teach us about the troubles and challenges of our post-truth times: environmental degradation, mass migration, war, inequality, exclusion, authoritarianism, and perplexing technological possibilities? Using some of his favourite myths as points of departure, Yiannis Gabriel will invite the audience to think and experience the world we inhabit mythologically – to engage with emotions and symbolism that lurk deeply inside old texts and to consider different courses of action, individual and collective, they open up. In addition to acting as fountains of meaning when meaning is precarious and fragmented, Greek myths, he will argue, have a therapeutic power helping us face the future with greater fortitude and practical wisdom that we so badly need in our times. _______________________________________________________________________ Speaker: Yiannis Gabriel, a Greek social psychologist, is Professor Emeritus at Bath University, UK. Since his PhD on Psychoanalysis at the University of California, Berkeley, and his first book Freud and Society , Gabriel has used psychoanalytic insights and theories to study a wide range of political, cultural and organizational phenomena, ranging from authoritarianism, nostalgia, consumerism, miasma and organizational trauma. As a Greek, he has had a life-long fascination with stories and myths which have played a large part in his research published in fourteen books, including Music and Story: A Two-Part Invention …