The Angel of History 13 December 2024 7pm Hampstead, London

A Performance followed by discussion. Tickets £11.55. Click on Eventbrite link below.

Zen retreat in the Lake District, 10-15 November 2024

The retreat is now full. Watch this space for future retreats!

NO SYMBOLS, NO MEANING: WELCOME TO THE HERMENEUTIC LABYRINTH — Thursday 5 June 2025

6-7.30PM In Wimbledon, London and online. Organized by SAFPAC. Tickets £15/£5. Click on the Eventbrite logo below

A genuine philosophy of becoming (and a psychoanalysis-psychotherapy inspired by it) naturally shuns symbols and inductive meaning, those conventional shibboleths that lure us into believing that what is impermanent can be made permanent, that what is confused can be made clear, and what is mediocre can be made great. Symbols in particular are “images that suppress the noise of the senses and dip the forehead into the stream of transcendence” (Robert Musil). Against symbols, I will argue in favour of allegory, a construct that is loyal to emergent phenomena — in life as in therapy. Against inductive meaning, I will present the case in favour of free association and rhizomatic investigation – modes of inquiry that grant access for both practitioner and client/patient to the hermeneutic spiral or labyrinth