Every Sunday starting September 20th, we will gather for another online seminar hosted by Parapraxis and the Psychosocial Foundation, focusing on ‘The End’. 

We’ll meet at 21h30, with the online seminar starting at 22h00 and lasting 90 minutes. 
We plan to embrace the later time-slot through candles, tea and sweet things - a sleepy attitude is to be expected and welcome!


Psychoanalysis begins with a wish for the end. The remission of pain, the relief of the symptom. Like drawing the death card repeatedly, we wish to traverse the symptom and move on. So says the abolitionist, too: end to transform. The end guarantees neither defeat nor triumph, though both are synonyms. At first, the end seems to spell finitude, a terminal cloaked in bad affect. But the end is only bad if things were mostly good. In psychoanalysis and left politics, the end is an object of desire—the end of struggle, suffering, oppression. Crucial to the way an end feels is the power one has in willing it. Psychoanalysis is clear on this issue: termination is or can be enacted prematurely but it is, crucially, the patient’s choice. At a moment when people are engineering the conditions of their own obsolescence under the aegis of high but diminishing wages, the end has become less elective, more inevitable. In other ways, the end doesn’t come soon enough—late capitalism and late liberalism lumber on without nearing abolition. How do we decide on the ends we want while struggling to push against the foreclosures and limits that keep us unfree? 

Speakers include Samiha Khalil, Patrice Douglass, Brianna Suslovic, Amy De’Ath, Axelle Karera, and others.


We’ll share the seminar subscription collectively by asking you to contribute 10€ (cash or PayPal) for the whole series from the point you join. No one will be turned away for lack of funds so please write to us if you are struggling financially. You are welcome to join at any point of the seminar or to drop in for one session.

Register at contact_aujus@pm.me


You will receive the reading material by email once you’re signed up. The full program is available on the Psychosocial Foundation’s website: https://www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/seminars

We’d love to build a consistent group throughout the sessions and make it a cosy collective study. You’re extra welcome to bring food (for yourself or to share), we’ll open the bar.