Through 11 lectures, this online course series will demonstrate that antisemitism persists because it provides a sense of satisfaction that goes beyond false beliefs, which could be corrected. The pleasure of hatred, the pleasure of belonging to a tradition, and the pleasure of moral purity form the triptych through which the lecturers will analyze the Lacanian concept of “jouissance.” Building on the global reactions to October 7 that brought this mechanism to light, the series will also examine how these new threats are being received within the Jewish community.
Le plaisir de haïr les Juifs : jouissance, épreuve et résistance
[The Pleasure of Hating Jews: Their Joy, Our Ordeal, and Resistance]
17 November 2026 “Quand l’antisémitisme est minimisé : comprendre les mécanismes psychologiques de l’invalidation des expériences juives” (“When Anti-Semitism Is Downplayed: Understanding the Psychological Mechanisms Behind the Dismissal of Jewish Experiences”)
Perla Matusof Zaltzman, Doctoral researcher, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada
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1 December 2026 “Banalité du mal et pauvreté du rapport au symbolique” (“The Banality of Evil and the Poverty of the Relationship to the Symbolic”)
Geneviève Bernaerts, Graduate of the University of Liège, psychoanalyst, and systemic and family psychotherapist. Private clinical practice and psychiatric hospital setting, Belgium
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15 December 2026 “L’antijudaïsme comme névrose, l’antisémitisme comme psychose” (“Anti-Judaism as Neurosis, Antisemitism as Psychosis”)
Professor Joël Kotek, ISGAP Faculty; Institut Jonathas, Brussels, Belgium
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5 January 2027 “La belle âme antisémite : sadisme et savoir” (“The Beautiful Antisemitic Soul: Sadism and Knowledge”)
Gérard Bensussan, Professor of philosophy, Université Marc Bloch, researcher at the CNRS, translator, and specialist in Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas, Strasbourg, France
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19 January 2027 “Le rôle de la violence sexuelle le 7 octobre” (“The Role of Sexual Violence on October 7”)
Thorsten Fuchshuber, Research Associate, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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2 February 2027 “L’antisémitisme et le retour du désir refoulé” (“Antisemitism and the Return of the Repressed Desire”)
Ilka Quindeau, Professor, Ph.D., psychoanalyst, researcher at the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Professor Céline Masson, Center for the History of Societies, Sciences, and Conflicts, University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
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16 February 2027 “La jouissance de l’antisémitisme” (“The “Jouissance” of Antisemitism”)
Eve Garrard, Senior Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Keele University, Keele, England ; Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy University of Manchester, Manchester, England (now retired)
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9 March 2027 “Les convergences antisémites entre les montées de l’islamisme, l’ethnonationalisme, l’accelérasionsime, le nihilisme, et l’extrême gauche” (“Antisemitic Convergences Among the Rise of Islamism, Ethnonationalism, Accelerationism, Nihilism, and the Far Left”)
Samuel Veissiere, Cognitive anthropologist, human ethologist, clinician, author; Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Université du Québec ; Department of Anthropology, McGill University; Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
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23 March 2027 “La tentation de l’homme ou de la femme providentiel“ (“The Temptation of the “Providential Man” or “Providential Woman””)
Judith Cohen-Solal, Clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, author, and essayist, Paris, France
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6 April 2027 “Haine des juifs et bien-pensance. Désinhibition contemporaine dans le contexte de la guerre” (“Hatred of Jews and Political Correctness: Contemporary Disinhibition in the Context of War”)
Dr. Patrick Bantman, Honorary psychiatrist at the Saint Maurice Hospitals, France
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20 April 2027 “Portraits d’antisémites au miroir carcéral” (“Portraits of Anti-Semites in the Prison Mirror”)
Fabrice Teicher, Specialist in conspiracy theories, hate speech, and violent extremism; independent expert for UNESCO, the Council of Europe, and the European Commission, France
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