Post-war French Philosophy and Psychiatry: The work of Dr. Jean Oury
Organised by Goldsmiths college Department of History and the Department of
Psychology, in association with the Forum for European Philosophy and with
the participation of the French Institute.
October 12th 2005, 16:00-1800: “The body and soul of Schizophrenia”,
Whitehead Seminar, Department of Psychology, Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre,
(Goldsmiths New Building)
October 13th 2005, 12:00-14:00: “The Drive”, Institute of Historical
Research, Low Countries Room Senate House, Malet Street
October 13th 2005, 18:00-21:00: “Psychiatry and post-war France”, Institut
Francais, Petite Salle, 17 Queensberry Place London, SW7 2DT (South
Kensington tube)
October 14th 2005, 11:00-17:00: “Creation and Schizophrenia”, Goldsmiths
College, Ian Gulland lecture theatre (main building) (refreshments at
13:30)
Dr Jean Oury, founder and director of La Borde clinic, is widely
acknowledged as the last living figure of a "golden age" of post-war French
Psychiatry and philosophy. In 1946 at the clinic of Saint-Alban, Dr Oury
would befriend, among many other leading figures, the philosopher Georges
Canguilhem, Surrealists Paul Éluard and Tristan Tzara, the eminent
psychiatrist, Henry Ey, the neurologist Julien de Ajuriaguerra, and most
notably, François Tosquelles and Jacques Lacan - with whom he would always
remain a close and trusted friend. Known throughout the world for his
reform of psychiatric institutions, his leading insights on psychoanalysis
and psychotherapy, and his coining of a “concrete phenomenology,” Dr Oury
would also, through the scope of his insight and the boldness of his
philanthropy, touch a generation of French thinkers: Franz Fanon, Michel
Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Julia Kristeva and most notably, Felix Guattari.
The distinguished phenomenologist Professor Jacques Schotte, taught at the
Catholic University of Llouvain until his retirement. His work on the
mental sciences, as well as his formulation of a philosophy of destiny
borne from his scholarship of Leopold Szondi and Victor Von Weizsäcker, has
won him a far-reaching recognition. As with Dr. Oury, professor Schotte
would become a close and trusted friend of Lacan, and an eminent
inspiration for the post-war generation of French philosophers.
This London appearance wil mark the first time Dr. Oury and Professor.
Schotte have spoken in the U.K. The events will be chaired by Howard
Caygill and David Reggio of Goldsmiths College, and Mauricio Novello of the
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq),
Brazil.
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