Hessel Willemsen’s blog with activities, presentations, new publications and current thoughts and ideas. Please click on the post title or image to read more.
Shame, Temporality and Social Change – Ominous Transitions – To be published in March 2021
Reviews 'A powerful, unflinching and deep look from multiple vertices into our contemporary collective descent, epitomized by the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism in societies makes Ominous Transitions a strong, psychoactive read.
American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize Winners for 2018
The American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa) has selected the following authors and editors as Winners for the ABAPsa annual book prize.
New Publication on Primo Levi and Post-truth
The stark realism of Primo Levi’s experiences of the Shoah is considered in light of the current political climate in which the authoritarian other induces a divergence between reality, a state of things as they actually exist or existed, and truth, that which to some extent accords to reality.
Temporality and Shame – New Book Edited by Ladson Hinton and Hessel Willemsen
Temporality has been a central preoccupation of modern philosophy, and shame has been a major theme in contemporary psychoanalysis
