Julianna Pusztai
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
- Intersubjectivity, Mutuality, Objects Relations Theory, Cultural Objects, Activism and Psychoanalysis
Biography
Julianna Ágnes Pusztai is a psychosocial and psychoanalytic thinker based in the UK, originally from Hungary. She is a clinician, the co-founder of the Sándor Ferenczi Collective, and a member of the Red Clinic. She is a PhD researcher exploring radical psychoanalytic movements and activism from the 1970s to the present. FREEPSY project website regularly updates Julianna's academic engagement, including conferences, lectures and publications. Julianna's work is supported by a UKRI Frontier Research Grant (ERC grant guarantee), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/X022064/1], project title: 'FREEPSY: Free Clinics and a Psychoanalysis for the People: Progressive Histories, Collective Practices, Implications for our Times' (PI Raluca Soreanu).
Research and professional activities
Thesis
Solidarity and Psychoanalysis: Radical Psychoanalytic Movements in the UK from the 70s to Our Times.
This ethnographic research project explores the psychoanalytic free clinics movement in the UK, tracing these clinics from the 1970s to the present day, with a specific emphasis on the significance of solidarity in their functioning. My interest in solidarity emerges as a response to grassroots psychoanalytic organising in the 1970s and the radical practices of our time. These free clinics, often situated at the margins of conventional therapeutic spaces, provide a unique terrain for exploring.
Supervisor: Profesor Raluca Soreanu , Professor Matt Ffytche
