The Fay Lectures | The Path Between Parts: Reciprocity in Times of War (Hybrid)

In situations of great danger, we are presented with a moral dilemma. The will to live endures; not only as a minimal form of life for the individual, but as the will to live a life together with others. These Others may be distant, yet their suffering is not only potentially recognizable, but perceptible and part of our own psychological experience. However, consumerism has limited the scope of empathy and morality, often unconsciously reducing the other to a self-object that may thus become irrelevant. This loss of the Other – of the physical human to the wages of war, and of our relational capacities of empathy and compassion to the wages of consumerism – lays an unconscious claim on our psyche. In this “time out of joint”, the myth of the sovereign subject and of individual separability is uncomfortably confronted with its own limits. Through the lens of recent medical and analytical experiences in Sudan, Gaza, and Egypt, Jungian analyst Antonio Karim Lanfranchi will explore these themes and pose the question: is a Tiqqun (a healing of the world) still possible?

Born in Cairo in 1967, from an Italian father and an Egyptian mother, Antonio Karim Lanfranchi, MD, Jungian analyst, received his education in Italian, Arabic, French and English. In his late teens he moved to Milan, Italy, where he graduated in Medicine and specialized in Cardiology. He had an analysis with Luigi Zoja and analytical training at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich. He worked as a cardiologist in Milan, where he currently holds his analytical practice, and, since 2020, also works in Lyon, France. He is the author of Modern Myths and Medical Consumerism: The Asclepius Complex (Routledge, 2019), and several papers dealing with topics like Psyche and the city of Cairo, Islam vs islamism in Egypt, racial awareness in analysis, the Covid-19 pandemic, and individuation beyond the individual. He recently spent three months as an MD in Khartoum with Emergency, an Italian humanitarian NGO, and has been actively helping Palestinian colleagues fleeing from Gaza into Egypt – both online and physically, in Cairo.

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