29: Psychoanalysis & Culture with Caroline Bainbridge

Caroline is Professor of Culture and Psychoanalysis and in this
podcast she shares her thoughts on a wide range of topics. She
shares reflections on how our engagement with social media shapes
our emotional and relational lives, and how psychoanalysis can
help us untangle ourselves from the pervasive media and culture
that we can't escape. Our cell phones are not only objects and
tools that we use, but they are both intimately close to our
bodies, and they are objects we internalise, taking emotional,
affective space in our lives. 


 


Caroline discusses how 'not being able to breathe' has become a
metaphor for our time. George Floyd and Black Lives Matter, "I
cant breath",  climate crisis with pollution and fires
choking cities, the Covid pandemic and millions of respiratory
deaths, and the suffocating ideology of neo-liberalism that
closes down other spaces, are all part of our emotional,
cognitive and physical experience of living today.  Simon
and Caroline discuss cinema and much more in this fascinating
podcast. 





 


Bio 


Caroline is Professor of Culture and Psychoanalysis at Roehampton
University, where she is based until the end of July 2021. She's
also a practising member of the Analytic Coaching Network. She
trained as an organisational consultant at the Tavistock &
Portman NHS Trust. Underlying all her endeavours is a profound
fascination with psychoanalysis, which she first encountered as
an undergraduate studying languages. Caroline established and
co-directed the Media and the Inner World research network
between 2009-13, and now co-edits a book series on the theme of
popular culture and psychoanalysis for Routledge. She is a widely
published author of books and journal articles, a Founding
Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council, and a former
editor of the journal, Free Associations. Outside work she cheers
on Liverpool FC through their highs and lows, and makes the most
of living close to a beach with an art installation called
Another Place. This conjuncture of art on the border between land
and sea fuels the imagination and soothes the soul. For more
information, see www.carobainbridge.co.uk