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Psychoanalysis, Politics and Cultural Theory
A Symposium in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural
Studies, University of East London
Attendance is open to all without charge, but space will be limited.
Anyone wishing to attend should contact the organiser, Jeremy Gilbert:
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November 10th 2:00pm –8:00pm
Room 0230 (ground floor main building)
Docklands Campus, University of East London
(Cyprus DLR: the station exit literally gives way on to the campus)
2:00-3:00
Michael Rustin (UEL, Tavistock Clinic) Differences within
psychoanalysis: differences in politics
Professor Rustin will explore the ways in which different paradigms in
psychoanalysis - Freudian, Kleinian, Lacanian, Deleuzian - give rise
to different political perspectives.
3:15-5:15
Peter Osborne (Middlesex) Cultural Theory as Wild Analysis
John Fletcher (Warwick) Jean Laplanche: Seduction and the Vicissitudes
of Translation
5:30-6:30
Amal Treacher (Birkbeck) Psychoanalysis: Can't Live With It, Can't
Live Without It
Marcel Swiboda (Leeds) Transversaling Freud: Guattari's Analytic
Modulations
6:45-8:00
Susannah Radstone psyche/time/culture
Barbara Taylor Psychoanalysis and History
Candida Yates Psychoanalysis, transitional masculinities and
contemporary culture
8:00 Drinks
Speakers
John Fletcher is Senior Lecturer in English, University of Warwick. He
is the editor of Jean Laplanche, Essays on Otherness (Routledge, 1999)
and of the special Laplanche isssue of New Formations, no. 48. 2002/3,
plus various essays on psychoanalysis, film and literature.
Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director
of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex
University andan editor of the journal "Radical Philosophy". His books
include The Politics of Time (1995), Philosophy in Cultural Theory
(2000)and Conceptual Art (2002). His interests in psychoanalysis
include the interpretation of Laplanchean meta-psychology as
existential ontology.
Susannah Radstone teaches in the School of Social Sciences, Media and
Cultural Studies at the University of East London. She writes on
cultural theory, particularly psychoanalysis and memory studies, and on
contemporary film and literature. Recent publications include two
edited volumes, Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory and Regimes of
Memory (both ed. With Katharine Hodgkin, 2003.
Professor Michael Rustin has been a leading figure in progressive
social, political and psychoanalytic thought for many years. His most
recent publications include Reason and Unreason: Psychoanalysis,
Science and Politics, Continuum/Wesleyan University Press, (2001) and
Mirror to Nature: Drama Psychoanalysis and Society (with Margaret
Rustin) Karnac, (2002)
Marcel Swiboda is Associate Lecturer and Research Assistant in the
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the
University of Leeds. He is the co-editor of Deleuze and Music,
published by Edinburgh University Press in 2004, assistant editor of
the Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory and reviews editor for
the journal parallax.
Barbara Taylor is Reader in History in the School of Cultural and
Innovation Studies at the University of East London. Her publications
include: Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the
Nineteenth Century (Virago, 1983; Pantheon Press, 1983; Harvard
University Press, 1993) which won the 1983 Isaac Deutscher Memorial
Prize; Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge
University Press, 2003); and Women, Gender and Enlightenment (co-edited
with Sarah Knott, Palgrave Press, forthcoming 2004).
Amal Treacher is a Lecturer at the Centre for Psychosocial Studies,
Birkbeck College. She has published on matters of ethnicity and
postcolonial theory, and draws on psychoanalysis and cultural theory as
her theoretical frameworks.
Candida Yates is a Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at The
University Of East London. She researches in the area of
psychoanalysis, masculinity, affect and cultural change and has
published in that field. She is has played a key role in the
organisation of two Culture and the Unconscious conferences jointly
organised by UEL and the Tavistock Clinic and is currently completing a
publication on masculine jealousies and contemporary cinema.
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