Eva Weil

Psychoanalyst, Researcher at the Sorbonne and University Paris I

Eva Weil is a psychoanalyst and a member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society. She is a researcher at the Sorbonne, University Paris I, and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS )in the program Identities, International Relations  & Civilizations of Europe” (IRICE). She is a researcher at University Paris VII in  the team “Psychoanalysis & Medicine” and she directs two Seminars at the Société Psychanalytique de Paris (on the topic of collective trauma: clinical & theoretical approaches to their traces in psychic treatments) and the University Paris I-Sorbonne (on war traces: reparations & issues of reconciliation in Europe & the world).

Participant In:

Trauma and its Aftereffects, Part I: War and Genocide

Saturday, May 2, 2015
2:30-4:30 pm

Past Event

What does it mean to be a survivor of the traumatic violence of war and genocide, as victim or perpetrator—or descendant of either? What are the implications for the individual and collective conscience of doing violence to others sanctioned by the state or consecrated—or condemned—by one’s culture or that of other cultures?