“Unweaving, as much as it is the prototype of melancholy, can also be conceived as the very model of psychoanalysis: unweaving so that a new fabric can be woven, disentangling to allow the formation of new knots.”
Jean Laplanche (1991) Time and the Other
Hello, I’m Jake Clwyd Roberts - a writer and researcher working to communicate psychoanalytic thought through my work as the Director of Research for the publishing platform, PEP, and previously for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and University College London’s Psychoanalysis Unit
In my own research I am interested in the transmission of psychoanalysis outside of its (primarily) clinical context. My current work centers on historicising the ‘question’ of the university in the psychoanalytic discourse immediately following Mai ‘68. Looking at French analysts, such as Jean Laplanche, Piera Aulagnier, and Serge Leclaire, can this question continue to hold relevance for contemporary psychoanalysis?
Venturing beyond the walls of the clinic raises pertinent questions concerning the very foundations of psychoanalysis as a field of enquiry. Namely, how is it promulgated, taught, learnt? Who by, and who for? And ultimately - to what purpose?
In my own research I am interested in the transmission of psychoanalysis outside of its (primarily) clinical context. My current work centers on historicising the ‘question’ of the university in the psychoanalytic discourse immediately following Mai ‘68. Looking at French analysts, such as Jean Laplanche, Piera Aulagnier, and Serge Leclaire, can this question continue to hold relevance for contemporary psychoanalysis?
Venturing beyond the walls of the clinic raises pertinent questions concerning the very foundations of psychoanalysis as a field of enquiry. Namely, how is it promulgated, taught, learnt? Who by, and who for? And ultimately - to what purpose?
Metabolism
(Works in progress)
‘Psychoanalytic Research’
Jean Laplanche (1966)
‘Teaching Psychoanalysis at the University’
Jean Laplanche (1975)
‘Psychoanalysis at the University’
Jean Laplanche (1975)
‘Yield’
The Crank - Jan 2023
‘The Wooden Church at Kolodne’
‘The Problematic of the University’
Kyoto University - Feb 2026
Open to Interpretation (Organiser)
Postgraduate Conference
UCL Psychoanalysis Unit - Feb 2024
‘Beyond the Wall, the University’
UCL Psychoanalysis Unit - Oct 2023
‘Learning from Lockdown Dreams’
UCL Psychoanalysis Unit - Nov 2020