Psych Talk: Hannah Zeavin
Join Hannah Zeavin in conversation with Jennifer Doyle and Jeanne Vaccaro, co-curators of Scientia Sexualis, to examine the conundrum of psychoanalysis in the 21st century. Panelists will discuss how we inhabit and make use of the theories, models, and insights of psychoanalysis in a way that simultaneously allows for us to think against the grain of the field’s historical and prevailing sexism, racism, transphobia, and homophobia.
Hannah Zeavin is a scholar, writer, and editor whose work centers on the history of human sciences and the history of media technology. Zeavin’s first book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is now out from MIT Press, with a Foreword by John Durham Peters and Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the 20th Century (MIT Press, expected 2025). She is at work on her third book, All Freud’s Children: A Story of Inheritance (US: Penguin Press; UK: Fern Press).
In 2021, Zeavin co-founded The Psychosocial Foundation and is the Founding Editor of Parapraxis, a new magazine for psychoanalysis. Essays and criticism have appeared in Bookforum, Dissent, The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, n+1, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Zeavin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at UC Berkeley.
