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Future Tense: Permacrisis, Falling Out of the World, and our Existential Moment

  • Boston College, Campion Hall Room 139 2599 Beacon Street Newton, MA, 02467 United States (map)

3rd talk of the 2025-2026 Conference Series by Al Margulies, MD

Challenging the notion that psychoanalysis is bound to the past, Al Margulies reframes trauma and experience through the lens of the future – drawing on Freud’s Nachtraglichkeit (deferred action), Lacan’s après-coup, and Heidegger’s temporality. He examines existential shock, dislocation, and the longing for home within our current “permacrisis.”

Building on decades of clinical and theoretical work, Margulies reflects on the interplay of art, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, and how meaning, memory and temporality shape our being-in-the-world. His presentation will touch on the full circle of his engagement with NECET – from his early keynote address in 1996 to his return now – situating the existential-psychoanalytic dialogue at NECET as a vital home for meaning-making in troubled times.

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