Parapraxis Magazine presents a roundtable discussion with Donald Moss, Hannah Zeavin, Francis Gooding, and Akshi Singh, returning to Moss’s 2021 essay On Having Whiteness
Doors: 6.30pm [discussion begins at 7pm]
Tickets: £5 - £7.50 - £10 [sliding scale]
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On Having Whiteness: A Roundtable
This roundtable returns to an essay by the psychoanalyst Donald Moss, titled On Having Whiteness, first published in 2021. This essay was the subject of right-wing outrage–and great debate within psychoanalytic circles as detailed by Hannah Zeavin in her essay Unfree Associations, published the following year.
The round table returns to questions about psychic investments in racism, right-wing strategies of mobilisation, and the place of ‘free speech’ in right wing discourse and psychoanalysis, all of which remain urgent and pressing concerns today.
Donald Moss and Hannah Zeavin will reflect on their essays, and the ways in which their thinking on these topics has developed since, and the event will present two new responses to the essays by Francis Gooding, and Akshi Singh. We will then have a roundtable discussion between the four speakers, and a facilitated discussion with members of the audience.
Donald Moss is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. He is the author of At War With the Obvious, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man, Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year, and the editor of Hating, Abhorring, and Wishing to Destroy, and Hating in the First Person Plural.
Hannah Zeavin is a historian of science at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy, Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the 20th Century (forthcoming this April), and at work on her third book, All Freud’s Children: A Story of Inheritance for Penguin. She is the Founding Editor of Parapraxis and the Director of The Psychosocial Foundation.
Francis Gooding is a writer and Contributing Editor at the London Review of Books, a regular columnist for The Wire, and Contributing Editor at Critical Quarterly. He has written widely on music, ecology, anthropology, colonial film, and art.
Akshi Singh is an Associate Editor at Parapraxis and Deputy Editor at Critical Quarterly. In Defence of Leisure, a memoir about reading the work of the writer, artist and psychoanalyst Marion Milner will be out in May 2025, with Jonathan Cape. She is a Lacanian analyst in formation.