Teaching, guest events & collaborations
Talks & events
Explore my teaching, attend a guest event, or develop a conversation together.
Upcoming public lecture
Eve Watson in Berlin
Guest speaker: Eve Watson · Organized by Leon Brenner
The Humanization of Feminine Differentiation and Sinthomic Singularity
- When
- Thursday, 5 November 2026 · 19:00 CET
- Where
- IPU Berlin, Lecture Hall 4, second floor, Alt-Moabit 91b, 10557 Berlin
- Format
- In person and online · Free; registration required
This event has ended. The original invitation remains in the archive.
My teaching
Lectures, seminars & workshops
My teaching moves between psychoanalytic theory, clinical practice, philosophy, and culture. I welcome invitations from universities, training institutes, and reading groups.
Autism & subjectivity
Autistic modes of being, language, and the body, drawing on my research in Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Love & transference
Plato, Lacan, and the place of love in analytic experience.
The skin & the libidinal body
The dermic drive, containment, and the body in psychoanalytic theory and clinical work.
Film & psychoanalysis
Close readings of cinema through desire, trauma, silence, and subjective experience.
Selected teaching hosts
Where I have taught
University courses and invited lectures, alongside advanced training for psychoanalytic practitioners.
Universities
Professional training institutes
- The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
- Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR)
- Freud Lacan Institute (FLi)
- Danish Psychoanalytical Society (IPA)
- The London Consortium (Site, Guild, CFAR)
- The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (MITPP)
- Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology
- North West Regional Psychotherapy Association (NWRPA)
- Academy for Psychoanalysis
- California Institute of Integral Studies
Teaching invitations
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I offer lectures, seminars, and workshops for universities, training institutes, and reading groups.
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Bringing people into conversation
Events I organize
Alongside my own lectures, I arrange events in Berlin for visiting scholars and psychoanalysts, including public lectures, seminars, and clinical discussions. These encounters create space for different approaches to psychoanalysis to meet.
Previous guests include Peter Jansson, Stephanie Swales, and Calum Neill. The invitations below describe their work and the events I hosted.
Cinema, Silence, and the Real
Berlin / IPU Berlin
My role: organizer and host
Read the invitationEmpathy, Harm, and Perversion
Ruhr University Bochum / IPU Berlin
My role: organizer and host
Read the invitationLacan’s Four Discourses and Sexuation
Ruhr University Bochum / IPU Berlin
My role: organizer and host
Read the invitationDevelop an event with me
If you would like to bring a scholar or psychoanalyst to Berlin, or develop a joint event, I welcome ideas and collaborations.
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