“Time is A Mother (and a Father): A Conversation about Oedipus” Sunday, February 22, 2026
10:00am – 11:30am EST Online via Zoom
Please join us for an exciting conversation about time, timelessness and identity in the context of Oedipus, based on the brilliant Broadway production by Olivier award-winning director Robert Icke. Joining Mr. Icke will be psychoanalysts Stephen Grosz (whose new book Love’s Labour comes out in February,) Shelley Rockwell (training and supervising analyst, who is interested in the resonance between Literature and Psychoanalysis) and Jamieson Webster (whose book On Breathing came out last year). The program will be moderated by Isaac Slone.
Program Fee: $20 General Public / Free for CFS Members & Candidates
Panelists:
Robert Icke is an award-winning writer and director, working in theatre and on screen. Until 2023, he was the first Ibsen Artist in Residence at International Theater Amsterdam, at the invitation of Ivo van Hove and supported by the Philip Loubser Foundation. His awards include two Evening Standard ‘Best Director’ Awards, two Critics’ Circle ‘Best Director’ Awards, the Kurt Hübner Award, and two Olivier Awards, one for ‘Best Director,’ of which he was the youngest ever winner. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded the Classical Association Prize in 2025
Stephen Grosz is a psychoanalyst practicing in London and the author of two books. His first, The Examined Life (2013), a collection of psychoanalytic case histories, became an international bestseller, translated into more than thirty languages, read on radio, and adapted for the stage. Writing in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani praised it for sharing “the best literary qualities of Freud’s most persuasive work… a series of slim, piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks.” His new book, Love’s Labor, will be published on February 10th.
Shelley Rockwell is a training and supervising psychoanalyst with the Contemporary Freudian Society and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She has written and published in the area of bulimia and the development of symbolic thinking: can internalization develop in the face of binging and purging? Tracing the development of mourning and the need for repetition she followed Melanie Klein’s thinking in Federico Garcia Lorca’s poem: “Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias.” Most recently she (with Lindsay Clarkson) wrote on the vitality and centrality of nature in our self and our patients: “Receptivity to the Weight and Heft of the Natural World in our Inner Selves.” Currently she is writing on bodily movement in our patients, the music of the body—always movement needing to be seen, needing to be understood.
Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst and writer in New York. She is a clinical psychologist and part-time faculty member at The New School for Social Research. She is the author of several books, including On Breathing, Disorganization & Sex, Conversion Disorder and The Hamlet Doctrine. She serves on the boards of Pulsion Institute and the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, Artforum, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere.
Isaac Slone is an advanced psychoanalytic candidate at the Contemporary Freudian Society in New York City, where he currently serves as Candidate Representative to the Board. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where he concentrated on psychoanalytic technique, narrative theory, and performance studies. His work has appeared in volumes published by Routledge, Bloomsbury, and Penn State University Press. He is on the Board of Directors for the psychoanalytic online and print magazine ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, where he also co-hosts the Voices from ROOM podcast. He recently graduated from the Anni Bergman Program’s Three-Year Training in Parent-Infant Studies
For any questions regarding the program, please email Jessica Reik at Reikhjessica@gmail.com