Coming up March 7th: WE MUST NOT TALK ASTROLOGY!
With Emmalea Russo
In a passage in her book Tribute to Freud, the poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), describes her analysis with Freud, painting a vivid picture of her inner thoughts while on Freud’s couch, complete with astrological references and zodiacal musings. Then, she interrupts herself: “But we must not talk astrology.” H.D. writes that her father and Freud agree on this point. No astrology! In this 2-hour workshop, we’ll use H.D.’s warning as a jumping off point to explore the relationship between astrology and psychoanalysis. Is astrology hidden in psychoanalysis itself, as a kind of unconscious? Aside from H.D.’s writings, we may look at passages from Louise Bourgeois, C.G. Jung, and Freud himself.
We will be meeting online for 2 hours beginning at 11AM NYC (8AM Vancouver/ 4PM London/ 17:00 Stockholm/ 18:00 Beirut) on Saturday, March 7th.
REGISTER HERE. Proceeds raised go towards paying our presenter(s). Thank you for your support! This event will be recorded and made available for everyone who registers.
Please note: all paid subscribers to RU Center for Psychoanalysis are automatically registered for this event, and the recording will be archived here at Substack.
Emmalea Russo is a writer, astrologer, and teacher. She is the author of two novels: Vivienne (2024) and The Moon Papers (forthcoming summer 2026). Her books of poetry are G (2018), Wave Archive (2019), Confetti (2022), and Magenta (2023). Recent poems and essays have appeared in Artforum, BOMB, Spike Art Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Compact, Granta, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She has taught courses on poetry, philosophy, and art at various institutions including Saint Peters University, Northeastern University, The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, and GCAS. She keeps a substack newsletter, Cosmic Edges, and teaches classes on literature, art, psychoanalysis, and the occult. She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and at the Jersey shore.
Emmalea’s DREAM SCHOOL begins TODAY, Sunday, January 25th (sessions are recorded for those who can’t attend live) where we’ll be studying various dreams and dream sequences from psychoanalysis, film, and literature: Kubla Khan, Wuthering Heights, Tony Soprano, Freud and Jung, and more.
We’ll be letting the dream “carry us on its mane,” as Cixous wrote.
DREAM SCHOOL has two tracks:
DREAM STUDY: monthly workshops
DREAM WORK: monthly workshops plus 6 generative dreamwork groups throughout the year, focused on generating new work
You can hear Emmalea and I talk about it here:
RU377: EMMALEA RUSSO ON DREAM SCHOOL, ART, WRITING & ASTROLOGY
Images: from H.D.’s Tribute to Freud; H.D. c. 1922.
