Call for Papers: Psychoanalysis and Group Violence
Identity, Group Psychology and Violence:
On the Emergence of Love and Rage in Human Networks
May 21-23, 2004, Washington DC
The Washington School of Psychiatry Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program,
the Forum on Psychiatry and the Humanities, The Human Sciences Program of
George Washington University and the Association for The Psychoanalysis of
Culture and Society will sponsor a conference connecting psychoanalysis and
social theory, exploring the nexus of individual motive and group behavior.
Psychoanalytic representations of subjectivity emphasize an individual self
with a singular history of trauma and libidinal attachment in a family
context. Political theory gives emphasis to a social world with a shared
social history and communal patterns of interaction. The conference seeks to
find relations between individual identity and the historical and
ideological
patterns of groups.
Questions:
*Does self coherence depend on the group?
*Is violence a function of certain individuals "released" by the group?
*Do all individuals have a potential for violence which may arouse a group
to
violence?
*How do history and culture shape expressions of group violence?
*Can singular history of individual identity determine group action?
*Can psychological and psychoanalytic knowledge influence mass culture?`
Concepts and themes to explore:
*Trauma in the group and individual
*Development of group affiliation
*Maternal/Paternal contributions to rage and identity
*Domestic relations and group identity
*Emergence of leaders and group identity
*Fashioning of behavior and motivation
*Sacrifice and identity
*Projective identification in group identity
*Conceptions of psyche and group
*Group hypnosis and persuasion
*Triggers for violence
*Constructions of group and individual memory *Transgenerational investments
of shame and rage
*Mass culture and media influence
Gender and violence/engendering violence
*Ethnicity, race, and cultural identity
*Intergroup conflict and intragroup conflict.
**Key speakers:
Vamik Volkan,
Salman Akhtar,
Virginia Goldner
Fred Alford,
Jim Glass
Paul Hoggett.
**Conference Format
We invite you to submit material for concurrent sessions or poster sessions.
Following the practice of the Washington School of Psychiatry we will also
work with process groups that seek to integrate theoretical material with
experiential learning.
**Sponsors
The sponsors will be the Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and
Society
(APCS), the Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program of the Washington School
of Psychiatry, and the Forum on Psychiatry and the Humanities and the Human
Sciences Program of George Washington University.
**Location
The conference will be located at George Washington University.
If you wish to present a paper, please send a one page abstract before Feb
15,
2004 to: Marshall Alcorn, Ph.D., c/o Washington School of Psychiatry, 5028
Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 400 Washington DC 20016-4118; email is:
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Dr Simon Clarke
Co-Director, Centre for Psycho-Social Studies
Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
University of the West of England
Coldharbour Lane
Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK
Phone: +44 (0)117 3442364
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