Workshop with Silvia Lippi

Silvia Lippi sets out to confront the longstanding suspicion that Sigmund Freud's theories regarding sexuality are quite reactionary. While Lippi insists that the Oedipus complex is a phantasm, a "toxic symptom" of psychoanalysis itself, she suggests dealing with this symptom by way returning to Freud, namely to his elaborations on the drive which point elsewhere. This allows her to ask questions that become increasingly pressing in our times: What remains of sexual difference when castration is no longer its measure? Can a theory of the drive account for sexuation?

In this workshop, Silvia Lippi will present and expand the arguments laid out in her book Sigmund Freud(tentare, 2026). The participants are then invited to discuss these pertinent ideas with us.

Silvia Lippi is a psychoanalyst and philosopher. She is the author of Canta Palestina! L’inconscio di fronte al massacre di un popolo, Ombre Corte, 2026; Soeurs, Pour une psychanalyse féministe, Seuil, 2023 (with Patrice Maniglier); Rythme et mélancolie (Erès, 2019); Freud l’ingouvernable, Stilus 2025 (Dt.: Sigmund Freud, tentare, 2026); La décision du désir (Eres, 2013); Transgressions. Bataille, Lacan (Eres, 2008). In her articles and books, she is developing a psychoanalysis that is particularly attentive to psychotic experiences and the interpellations of contemporary minority groups.