Aligi Sassu, Apocalypse of John, 1982

Foundations of Psychoanalysis 

Apocalypse, or Uncovering Possible Resilience

Béatrice Cléro-Mazire

Friday, October 24, 2025 • 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Apocalypse is a literary genre that arose in dramatic circumstances: born of crisis, it decries the political violence of its time while envisioning the possibility of recovery for its victims. We will study how John’s Apocalypse maps a path of resilience for an oppressed community, and expand upon its significance for social and political movements.

Suggested readings: The Bible, New Testament: The Revelation of Saint John the Divine.
L’Apocalypse de Jean, traduite et commentée par Jean-Yves Leloup (2020). Apocalypse, hier et demain, exhibition catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterrand (Paris 2025).

Location: In-person in NYC and online via Zoom.

Fee: $40; for students with ID: $20. Registration details to follow.

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Béatrice Cléro-Mazire is a Protestant minister at the Oratoire du Louvre in Paris. She studied philosophy, and after, theology, at the Institut Protestant de théologie de Paris. Her progressivist theology carries on the liberal strain that emerged in 18th- and 19th-century France through critical philosophy and critical-historical methods of Bible reading. Her writings and group projects, geared to a broad public, aspire to a theology in dialogue with the current state of the humanities and the world.