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==Early life, family and education==
Bernard Peter Mel Kennedy was born on 20 May 1952 in [[Rathfarnham]], Dublin to Alice Kennedy ([[née]] Hughes) and William Augustine Kennedy, an actor and chemist.<ref name="Poem Hunter">
Kennedy was ordained in 1979 at Dublin's [[Holy Cross College (Dublin)|Holy Cross Seminary]] (previously known as Clonliffe College).<ref name="Poem Hunter"/> He holds a [[Master of Arts]] (MA) in psychoanalytic studies from the [[University of Sheffield]], having matriculated in 2000 and graduated in 2002 with a thesis titled ''On freudian understanding of Sexuality''; he holds a [[Master of Science]] (MSc) in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from [[University College Dublin]], which he attended from 2002 to 2004 and for which his thesis was titled ''On Homosexuality and the relation to the father''. His [[Doctor of Philosophy]] (PhD) focuses on [[symptomatology]] in the works of [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]] and [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] in a 2006 thesis titled ''The Freudian Understanding of the Symptom''.<ref name="The Poetry Kit">
==Career==
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{{cquote|"It may be that too many centuries of being dazzled by outside control have drowned the Patrician opening text of ''Ego Patricius, peccator''. An obsequiousness towards being ruled from outside is perhaps at root. Obedience to mother, the matriarchal principle transferred to Mother Church and the diminishment of Father, is a third possibility. After all, Catholic iconography edits the male from its iconic artwork in favour of mother and son. Except for God many of our religious symbols in the west are fatherless. We might call this the Joseph syndrome."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kennedy |first=Bernard |date=April 2013 |title=Ireland's Crashing Catholicism |journal=[[The Furrow]] |language=en |volume=64 |issue=4 |pages=236-241 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24635608}}</ref>}}
Since September 2017, Kennedy has been the pastor of [[Enniskerry]],<ref>
===Psychoanalysis===
Kennedy subscribes to the psychoanalytic system of [[Lacanianism]], believing in the importance of [[desire (Lacanian)|desire]].<ref>
In 2005, Kennedy explored transference, identification, and sublimations in his publication ''St. Teresa, Mysticism and That’s Not It''. He proposed that "all love is transference" (as regards to [[Mother Teresa]]'s approach) and concluded that "[Jacques] Lacan is availing of what is not, namely, the limit of love and knowledge."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kennedy |first=Bernard |date=Spring 2005 |title=St. Teresa, Mysticism and That’s Not It – The Agalma of Homosexual and Hetrosexual Desire |journal=The Letter |language=en |volume=33 |pages=98-104 |url=http://theletter.ie/bernard-kennedy-st-teresa-mysticism-and-thats-not-it-the-agalma-of-homosexual-and-hetrosexual-desire/}}</ref>
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Another 2005 publication, ''Joyce, The Castration Complex, and the Nom Du Pere'', points to the theme of fatherhood as a key factor in the work of novelist [[James Joyce]], "particularly in the important text of Family Complexes in the Formation of the Individual." In much the same way as [[transgenerational trauma]], Kennedy writes that "[the coat of arms] can be seen as a form of indentation of generations upon the psyche of the next generation and for our purposes on James Joyce, writer, poet and son of artificer." This publication focused heavily on the psychoanalytic nature of Joyce’s writings, particularly the Freudian [[castration complex]] and Lacanian [[symbolic order]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kennedy |first=Bernard |date=Autumn 2005 |title=Joyce, The Castration Complex, and the Nom Du Pere |journal=The Letter |language=en |volume=35 |pages=50-58 |url=http://theletter.ie/bernard-kennedy-joyce-the-castration-complex-and-the-nom-du-pere/}}</ref>
As regards to the Freudian understanding of the symptom, it is Kennedy's strong-held belief, posited in his doctoral thesis, that this theory is derived from the unconscious. He has described it as "a text whose expression is the Symptom but behind which, if unravelled, like a knot of coagulated affect, arising from trauma, and, confected from the social cultural deposits, is an agreement between the [[Ego (Freudian)|Ego]] and the [[Id, ego and super-ego#Id|Id]] in a context, brought about through Repression."<ref>
===Poetry and writing===
Between 1998 and 1999, Kennedy published three poetry books with Marmara Press: ''Leaves of Autumn: A New Poetry Collection 1988-1998'' (1998), ''Berlin, Berlin'' (1999), ''The Poet's Tower & Love Poems'' (1999).<ref>
===Memberships and honours===
In 1979, the first year of its running, Kennedy won the National Council Educational Award in Philosophy, issued by the [[Higher Education and Training Awards Council]].{{cn|date=January 2023}}
Kennedy is a member of several academic associations, including the European Association of Psychoanalysts (EAP), the Irish Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), and the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI).<ref>
Kennedy is a Member of [[Poetry Ireland]] (MPI).{{cn|date=January 2023}}
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===Ecumenism===
Kennedy has previously spoken out about the need for [[Ecumenism]] within Christian communities.<ref>[http://www.churchnewsireland.org/wp-content/uploads/CNI-News-Mar-05.pdf GAFCON gathering claims 'sense of betrayal' at liberal Anglican teaching]</ref> For [[Volkstrauertag]] 2022, he led his congregation in "an [[Ecumenism|Ecumenical]] prayer for peace with interfaith elements," joining Lutheran, Catholic and Jewish communities.<ref>
==Personal life==
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