Announcing a forthcoming two-day international conference run by The
British Psychoanalytical Society
16th May and 17th May 2003
The 'Freudian Century'? The Impact of Psychoanalysis on Intellectual
Life in Britain
This ground breaking international conference brings together top
academics and thinkers from a range of fields. They will explore the
question: how has Freud's work, notably the idea of the
'unconscious', affected and influenced wider cultural and
intellectual developments in twentieth-century Britain? In each panel
discussion, participants will consider how 'the unconscious' was
taken up, discussed and/or criticised in disciplines ranging from
anthropology to biography, sociology to philosophy, film theory to
literature, literary criticism to science.
Speakers include: Sally Alexander, Steve Connor, John Forrester,
Nadia Fusini, Michael Rustin, Michael Holroyd, Jonathan Lear, Juliet
Mitchell, Laura Mulvey, Daniel Pick, Suzanne Raitt and Charles
Stewart.
The conference will be introduced by Ronald Britton, President of The
British Psychoanalytical Society, and panels will be chaired by
psychoanalysts Michael Brearley, Susan Budd, Elizabeth Spillius and
Caroline Polmear.
Called 'Bloomsbury Freud', an exhibition of rare unpublished
materials, drawn from the archives of the Society, will also be on
display.
A conference programme follows with short biographies of all the contributors.
Applications to attend the conference should be sent to:
L Carter-Jackson, The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112A Shirland
Road, London W9 2EQ. Tel 020 7563 5016, or e-mail:
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The 'Freudian Century'? The Impact of Psycho-Analysis on Intellectual
Life in Britain
May 16 - 17 2003
Programme
Friday 16th May 2003
11.45 - 12.00 Registration in the Simenauer Room
for those attending the exhibition and lunch
12.00 - 13.30 Exhibition and Talk
Ken Robinson presents 'Bloomsbury and Psychoanalysis', in the Library
13.30 - 14.00 Lunch
13.30 - 14.00 Registration in the Simenauer Room
14.00 - 14.45 Welcome to the Conference
Ronald Britton President of The British Psychoanalytical Society
Daniel Pick on the aims of the conference
14.45 - 15.35 Sociology
Chaired by Caroline Polmear
Michael Rustin on
'Psychoanalysis and Sociology: an Uneasy Encounter'
15.35 - 16.25 Biography
Chaired by Caroline Polmear
Michael Holroyd on 'Bonfire of the Vanities: Biography and Psychoanalysis'
16.30 - 17.00 Tea and biscuits
17.00 - 18.30 Anthropology
Chaired by Elizabeth Spillius
Charles Stewart on 'The Impact of Psychoanalytic Ideas on Early
Twentieth-Century British Social Anthropology'
Juliet Mitchell on 'Some Aspects of Psychoanalysis
and Anthropology in the Twentieth Century'
Saturday 17th May 2003
09.00 - 10.30 Culture and Society in Interwar Britain
Chaired by Susan Budd
Suzanne Raitt on 'Early Psychoanalysis and the Medico-Psychological Clinic'
Sally Alexander on 'The Psychopathology of Everyday Life between the Wars'
10.30 - 11.00 Tea and biscuits
11.00 - 12.30 Philosophy and Science
Chaired by Michael Brearley
John Forrester on
'Freud in Cambridge - A New Appraisal'
Jonathan Lear on 'Psychoanalysis and the Idea
of Moral Psychology'
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Literature, Culture, Criticism
Chaired by Ronald Britton
Steve Connor on 'Can a Culture be Psychoanalysed?'
Nadia Fusini on 'Questione d'orecchio: Ways of Listening: the Critic,
the Writer, the Psychoanalyst'
15.30 - 16.00 Tea and biscuits
16.00 - 17.30 Film
Chaired by Michael Brearley
Laura Mulvey on 'The Development of English
Film Theory: An Oedipal Dilemma'
17.30 - 18.30 Plenary Discussion of Conference Themes
Chaired by Caroline Polmear
18.30 - 19.30 Drinks and canapés in the Library
THE 'FREUDIAN CENTURY'? CONFERENCE - CONTRIBUTORS
Sally Alexander
Sally Alexander is Professor of History at Goldsmiths College,
University of London, and convenes a seminar on Psychoanalysis and
History at the Institute of Historical Research. She studied at
University College, London, and Ruskin College, Oxford. She is a
founding editor of History Workshop Journal. Her research interests
include modern British history, the history of feminism and social
movements, memory and the history of psychoanalysis in Britain. Her
publications include Women's Work in Nineteenth Century London: A
Study of the Years 1820-1950 (1983) and Becoming A Woman: And Other
Essays in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Feminist History (1994).
She is currently working on a book on women and subjectivity in
London in the interwar years.
Michael Brearley
Michael Brearley is a full-time psychoanalyst in London and a member
of The British Psychoanalytical Society. He is on the committee for
the Film Festival to be held in autumn 2003. He co-leads seminars on
the Foundations of Psychoanalysis for the Institute of Psychoanalysis
and gives seminars and lectures for other students and trainings, as
well as in the University College, London MSc in Psychoanalytic
Studies. His main work is as a psychoanalyst in private practice, but
he also writes occasionally on cricket. Publications include The Art
of Captaincy (1985, rev. ed. 2001).
Ronald Britton
Ronald Britton is currently the President of The British
Psychoanalytical Society, and the Vice-President of the International
Psychoanalytical Association. He is a psychoanalyst in private
practice in London and a training and supervising analyst of the
BPAS. Publications include Belief and Imagination: Explorations in
Psychoanalysis (1998). His latest book, now in press, is entitled
Sex, Death and the Superego.
Susan Budd
Susan Budd, D.Phil., is a psychoanalyst in private practice in
Oxford. She was formerly Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis
and is a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal
of Psychoanalysis and the British Journal of Psychotherapy. She is
the author of several books on sociology, intellectual history, and
the relations between conventional and alternative medicine, and of
various articles on the social and intellectual context of
psychoanalysis.
Steve Connor
Steve Connor is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck
College, London. He is also College Orator and from October 2003 will
be the Director of the London Consortium. His publications include
Charles Dickens (1985), Samuel Beckett. Repetition, Theory and Text
(1988), Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the
Contemporary (rev. ed. 1996), Theory and Cultural Value (1992), The
English Novel in History, 1950 to 1995 (1995), James Joyce (1996),
and Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (2000). He is
currently working on an historical poetics of skin, to be published
by Reaktion in 2003.
John Forrester
John Forrester is Professor of History and Philosophy of the Sciences
in the University of Cambridge. His publications include Language and
the Origins of Psychoanalysis (1980), The Seductions of
Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida (1990), with Lisa
Appignanesi, Freud's Women (1992; new edition 2000), Dispatches from
the Freud Wars. Psychoanalysis and its Passions (1997) and Truth
Games. Lies, Money and Psychoanalysis (1997). He is also
co-translator of Jacques Lacan: The Seminar, Volumes 1 and 2. A
cultural history of Freudianism, The Freudian Century, is forthcoming
from Penguin.
Nadia Fusini
Nadia Fusini is Professor of English at the University of Rome, 'La
Sapienza'. She is well known as a translator and scholar of English
and American poetry, including Keats, Stevens and Plath. Her books of
literary criticism range from Shakespeare to Kafka to Woolf.
Publications include La passione dell' origine: studi sul tragico
shakespeariano (1981), and La luminosa: genealogia di Fedra (1990).
She is also the author of several novels, including La bocca piu di
tutto mi piaceva (1995) and Due volte la stessa carezza (1997) and
most recently Lo specchio di Elisabetta (2001).
Michael Holroyd
Michael Holroyd is Chairman of the Royal Society of Literature. He
has previously served as Chairman of the Society of Authors and Book
Trust, President of English PEN and as a member of the Arts Council
of Great Britain. He holds five honorary degrees and was awarded the
CBE in 1989. Publications include Lytton Strachey (1968), Augustus
John (1974), Bernard Shaw (4 volumes, 1988-92), Basil Street Blues,
an autobiography (1999), and The Craft of Biography and Autobiography
Writing (2002).
Jonathan Lear
Jonathan Lear is John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the
University of Chicago, where he is a member of the Committee on
Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy. Trained in
philosophy and in psychoanalysis, Professor Lear is also a member of
the faculties of The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and the
Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. He has previously
served as Chair of the Philosophy Department at Yale University, and
as a Fellow and Director of Studies in Philosophy at Clare College,
Cambridge. His current research interest is the nature of therapeutic
action in psychoanalysis. Publications include Love and Its Place in
Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis,
Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul, and Happiness, Death
and the Remainder of Life. His newest book, Therapeutic Action: An
Earnest Plea for Irony will be published this autumn. He is also
writing the volume on Freud for the Routledge Philosophers Series.
Juliet Mitchell
Juliet Mitchell is Professor of Psychoanalytic and Gender Studies at
Jesus College, Cambridge. She is also Head of the Department of
Social and Political Studies and Convener of Gender Studies. She
studied at Oxford and is a member of the British Psychoanalytical
Society. Her research interests include gender, siblings, and
psychoanalysis. Publications include Psychoanalysis and Feminism
(1974), Women: the Longest Revolution (1984), and Mad Men and
Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria and the Sibling Relationship for the
Human Condition (2000). She has also edited five collections of
essays. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages
and a book on Siblings is forthcoming.
Laura Mulvey
Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck
College, London. Her current research interests include how film
spectatorship is affected by new modes of consumption, particularly
digital technology. Her publications include Visual and Other
Pleasures (1989), Citizen Kane (1992), and Fetishism and Curiosity
(1996). Her article 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema',
originally published in Screen, Autumn 1975, used psychoanalytic
theory to give a feminist critique of Hollywood cinema and continues
to be reprinted and debated today.
Daniel Pick
Daniel Pick is a psychoanalyst and Professor of cultural history at
Queen Mary, University of London. He is the Director of Doctoral
Research in the History Department at Queen Mary and an editor of
History Workshop Journal. Publications include Faces of Degeneration
(1989), War Machine (1993) and Svengali's Web (2000). He is the
co-editor, with Lyndal Roper, of a multi-authored collection of
essays on dreams and history, currently in press with Routledge.
Forthcoming publications include a book about Rome, nationalism and
the myth of Garibaldi.
Caroline Polmear
Caroline Polmear is a psychoanalyst. She is a member of the British
Psychoanalytical Society and was Honorary Secretary of the BPAS from
1998 to 2001. She is currently Secretary to the Board of Guardians of
the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. With co-authors Jane
Milton and Julia Fabricius she has written a forthcoming book called
What Psychoanalysis Really Is.
Suzanne Raitt
Suzanne Raitt is Margaret L. Hamilton Professor of English at the
College of William and Mary, U.S.A. She gained her PhD from Cambridge
University. Her research interests include modernist women writers,
lesbian fiction and theory, the Victorian novel, and psychoanalytic
literary criticism. Her publications include Virginia Woolf's "To the
Lighthouse" (1990), Vita and Virginia (1993), and May Sinclair: A
Modern Victorian (2000). She has also edited the collection Volcanoes
and Pearl-Divers (1995), and co-edited Women's Fiction and the Great
War (1997) with Trudi Tate. She is currently working on a book called
Modernist Waste.
Ken Robinson
Ken Robinson is a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and
Honorary Secretary of its Archives Committee. He taught English
Literature in universities before training as a psychotherapist and
psychoanalyst. He now works in private practice in Newcastle upon
Tyne. He has written recently on Ernest Jones and on the early
history of the Society, and is editing the proceedings of the BMA
committee (1927-1929) that investigated the claims of psychoanalysis
as a bona fide treatment, in which Jones played a major role. He
chairs The Freudian Study Group and co-chairs an IPA small study
group.
Michael Rustin
Michael Rustin is a Professor of Sociology at the University of East
London, and a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock Clinic. He has had
a significant involvement in the academic development of
psychoanalytic programmes in recent years. His research involves
thinking psychoanalytically about politics, society and culture. His
books include The Good Society and the Inner World (1991); Reason and
Unreason: Psychoanalysis, Science and Politics (2001); and with
Margaret Rustin Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in Modern
Children's Fiction (2nd Edn 2001) and Mirror to Nature; Drama,
Psychoanalysis and Society (2002). With Jeff Prager he edited
Psychoanalytic Sociology Vols 1 & 2 (1993).
Elizabeth Bott Spillius
Elizabeth Bott Spillius was formerly a social anthropologist and is
now a training analyst of The British Psychoanalytical Society. She
has held various positions within the BPS, particularly Editor of
Books (1988 - 1998). Publications include Family and Social Network
(1957, 2nd ed. 1971), The Kingdom of Tonga at the Time of Captain
Cook's Visits (1981), Asylum and Society (1976 and 1990). She has
also edited Melanie Klein Today, Vols 1 and 2 (1988), in addition to
publishing various psychoanalytic papers, particularly 'Varieties of
Envious Experience' in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis,
1993, No. 6.
Charles Stewart
Charles Stewart is a Reader in Anthropology at University College,
London. He gained a PhD in social anthropology from Oxford. His
diverse research interests include history and anthropology,
psychological anthropology, psychoanalysis, dreams, and nationalism
and ethnicity. His publications include Demons and the Devil: Moral
Imagination in Modern Greek Culture (1991). He is currently preparing
a book on Unconscious Traditions: A Cultural History of Dreams in
Greece, and has an essay on 'Desire and Dreams in Ancient and Early
Christian Thought' in the forthcoming Dreams and History volume,
edited by D. Pick and L. Roper.
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