THE 2023 FREUD CONFERENCE:
INDIGENOUS VOICE/S  
PSYCHOANALYTIC LISTENING

CRAIG SAN ROQUE is a Sydney/Alice Springs based psychotherapist with 30 years engagement in Aboriginal environments of health, law, youth, intercultural arts and Indigenous healer initiatives.

He is especially interested in how complex subconscious cultural assumptions influence black/white relations – a theme in his 2021-22 BlackKnot/WhiteKnot psycho-cultural seminars; the graphic novel, A Long Weekend in Alice Springs and the IPA Geographies of Psychoanalysis podcast series, 2021.
https://talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com/e/craig-san-roque-mourning-melancholia-and-the-echo-effect/

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: SESSION 1:
AN OLDER VOICE – Things I heard in Warlpiri Country
This session, on experiences of listening in ‘crossover spaces’, draws upon Freud’s notion of unconscious intensities arising in relationships. I begin by acknowledging specific Central Australian Indigenous men/women who worked to maintain mutually beneficial good order between ‘black and white’ (kardia and yapa). I then track personal psychological moments revealing challenges, mistakes and subliminal  illuminations arising through attentive listening within Warlpiri relations. 

PAMELA NATHAN is a clinical & forensic psychologist & psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She has worked in Central Australia since the early 1980s and in the last decade, with Creating A Safe Supportive Environment (CASSE). 

Latest publications include:
The Youth Inferno: Two Way Working on Ancestral Lands (2022)
Two Way Therapy on Ancestral Lands (2021) 
Awakenings on Ancestral Lands  (2021)  
www.casse.org.au
pep-web-org

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: SESSION 2:
OPENING UP THE STORY: From soul murder to soul making on ancestral lands
I draw on the psychoanalytic work of Creating A Safe Supportive Environment, CASSE, and the voices of the youth in Central Australia. I show how CASSE attempts to transform soul murder into soul making on ancestral lands. I use the work of Winnicott, Williams & Ogden who have written about the essence of authenticity, which is the inviolate homeland for
the sacred.

KENNETH LECHLEITNER PANGARTE   Ken speaks fluently; Aranda, Anmatjere, Warlpiri and English. He participates in maintaining Aboriginal culture, as part of his own Two-Ilpa Bi-Cultural Consultancy Business. Ken has been a board member and researcher for CASSE. Close to Ken’s heart is creating places where men can develop understandings in Western World, Knowledge, Ideology, Society and Structure (WWKISS) and in indigenous culture according to Altjira.
Day After Tomorrow Symposium

CHRIS CROKER is a Luritja man from Central Australia. He has been the Managing Director of Impact IP since 2016.Chris is also a steering committee member for the First Nations Clean Energy Network, Chair of CASSE  and board member of Australian Communities Foundation and Desert Knowledge Australia.

MELINDA HINKSON, Director of the Institute for Postcolonial Studies (Melbourne) is a social anthropologist. She writes on Aboriginal affairs with astute perception, informed by long-term friendships with Warlpiri. In March 2023 she presented expert advice to the NT Kumanjayi Walker Coronial Inquiry exposing background histories of progressive erosion of Warlpiri community control over youth and local affairs, highlighting contrasts between Warlpiri and Australian notions of responsibility, law and justice.
https://ipcs.org.au/people/melinda-hinkson/

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: SESSION 3: VOICES IN LAW
PAMELA NATHAN, CRAIG SAN ROQUE, KEN LECHLEITNER PANGARTE, CHRIS CROKER, MELINDA HINKSON and TIMOTHY KEOGH

This session brings to your attention intercultural  responsibility, accountability and the uses of law and culture. Three speakers, personally involved in such matters reflect upon social obligation, cultural morality, gender relations, care for country, crime and settlement – as understood from Australian and Indigenous law perspectives.

 Confusions in truth, right conduct, basic trust and law are revealed in the current Yuendumu/ Walker  Coronial Inquiry. Such confusion has psychological consequences. The case strikes at the heart.

In Voices in Law we acknowledge intercultural unconscious intensities arising in ‘black/white’ relations, bringing to light passions, histories, solutions and potentials.