Lean on Me: Book Launch with Lynne Segal

In-house event with Lynne Segal and Akshi Singh. The Freud Museum London is delighted to host this evening event to celebrate the paperback release of Lynne Segal's 'Lean on Me'. On the night we will be joined by Lynne Segal and Akshi Singh to explore the themes of care, intimacy, and collective responsibility that are at the core of Lynne's book. Lynne and Akshi will discuss what it means to depend on one another in an age of social fragmentation, inequality and climate crisis, and consider how practices of radical care can help us imagine a more hopeful future. ________________________________________________________________________ About the book Have you ever relied on the kindness of strangers? What brings people together to find hope and solidarity? What do we owe each other as citizens and comrades? Questions of care, intimacy, education, meaningful work, and social engagement lie at the core of our ability to understand the world and its possibilities for human flourishing. In Lean On Me feminist thinker Lynne Segal goes in search of hope in her own life and in the world around her. She finds it entwined in our intimate commitments to each other and our shared collective endeavours. Segal calls this shared dependence 'radical care'. In recounting from her own life the moments of motherhood, and of being on the front line of second-wave feminism, she draws upon lessons from more than half a century of engagement in left feminist politics, with its underlying commitment to building a more egalitarian and nurturing world. The personal and the political combine in this rallying cry to transform radically how we approach education, motherhood, and our everyday vulnerabilities of disability, ageing, and enhanced needs. Only by confronting head-on these different forms of interdependence and care can we change the way we think about the environment and learn to struggle — together —against impending climate catastrophe. _______________________________________________________________________ Speakers: Lynne Segal is Anniversary Professor Emerita of Psychology and Gender Studies in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of several titles, including Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism, Making Trouble: Life & Politics, Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy, Out of Time: The Pleasures and perils of Ageing. Lynne Segal also co-wrote Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism with Sheila Rowbotham and Hilary Wainwright, and recently published Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care. Akshi Singh is an associate editor at Parapraxis and deputy editor at Critical Quarterly, and is the editor of a special collection of Critical Quarterly presenting new writing on Marion Milner. She collaborates regularly with the Derek Jarman lab, and writes for the London Review of Books. Singh moved to the UK from India to study for a PhD in psychoanalysis and literature with Jacqueline Rose. She is currently training to be a psychoanalyst at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research. _______________________________________________________________________ Tickets: Solidarity Ticket – £25 Standard Ticket – £15 A limited number of £10 bursary tickets are available for those under financial hardship. Please email [email protected] to apply for a bursary. Freud Museum Members and Patrons receive 20% off the standard ticket price on all events, courses, conferences and On Demand programming. The purpose of this event is to raise funds for the Freud Museum London, which receives no regular Government income. We are grateful to you for supporting our independent museum as generously as possible. The event will be held on the first floor of the Museum during regular opening hours. Unfortunately the Freud Museum does not have step-free access at this time. Advance booking is highly recommended as capacity is limited.