Reading Room: A Talk with the Author

Sisters: For a Feminist Psychoanalysis

Silvia Lippi

Saturday, November 22, 2025 • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (ET)

Becoming a feminist is not merely a rational choice, but also a vital response to traumas that are lost in the mists of our individual histories. By laying the foundations for a psychoanalysis of sisterhood, this book breaks with a reigning silence and advocates for a feminism that embraces its own instinctual, traumatic, and even irrational elements — speaking to all those who aspire to think, feel, and live beyond the confines of patriarchal imaginaries.

Location: In-person in NYC

Fee: Attendance is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

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Silvia Lippi is a psychoanalyst. Trained as a philosopher, she holds a Ph.D. in psychology (Université Paris-Diderot), and is a hospital psychologist at the Établissement Public de Santé Barthélémy Durand in Étampes, and an associate researcher at Université Paris-Nanterre. 

She is the author of Freud, the Ungovernable, Stylus, 2025; Soeurs, Pour une psychanalyse féministe [Sisters: For a Feminist Psychoanalysis, Seuil, 2023; (with Patrice Maniglier) Rythme et mélancolie (Érès, 2019); La décision du désir (Érès, 2013); Transgressions. Bataille, Lacan (Érès, 2008). She co-edited the collective work Marx, Lacan: l'acte révolutionnaire, l'acte analytique (Érès, 2013). Her works have been translated into Italian, English (The Decision of Desire, University of Minnesota Press, 2020), German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Greek.