CALL FOR PAPERS
PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES TODAY:
A POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
HELD BY THE CENTRE FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
Wednesday, May 28TH to Friday, May 30TH
The Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, is pleased to announce “Psychoanalytic Studies Today: A Postgraduate Conference.”
The Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies (CPS) is a world class research centre committed to cutting edge work in psychoanalysis and fostering dialogue between the various schools of depth psychology. It promotes a multidisciplinary approach, recognizing the value of both hermeneutical and clinical projects.
Postgraduate students are invited to submit proposals for presentations in the traditions of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology and the application of depth psychological theory to academic disciplines including (but not confined to), sociology, history, biography, politics, literature, art history, myth, psychology, psychosocial studies, religious studies and philosophy. Clinical papers from the perspective of any one of the depth psychological schools – exploring any aspect of the clinical encounter – are most welcome.
This three-day conference – which includes a lecture by Dr. Robert Romanyshyn and the annual Freud Memorial Lecture, given this year by Prof. Nicola Abel-Hirsch – will offer postgraduate researchers an opportunity to discuss their ideas with both CPS students and staff members in a dynamic and intellectually stimulating environment. Papers will also have respondents assigned to them. Our aim is to provide participants with an enriching experience where dialogue and networking are promoted.
Submitting an Abstract
The Programme Committee welcomes proposals in English and not exceeding 300 words. Along with your proposal, please include the following information:
Full name
Full mailing address and email address
Contact telephone numbers
Institution (professional body or university) including position or membership
If a candidate or trainee in a clinical training program, indicate which training body
Please indicate any technical needs such as PowerPoint, DVD, CD player, flipchart, overhead projector etc.
Papers should be no more than 20 minutes, to be followed by a 10 minute period for a formal response and discussion.
Please send your abstracts to Fiona Gillies at [log in to unmask]
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 21 March 2014, by 5 pm.
You will be notified of the acceptance of your abstract by 4 April 2014.
Registration forms should be sent to Fiona Gilles at [log in to unmask] Queries about the conference should be addressed to both Kevin Lu and James Alan Anslow at: Kevin Lu [log in to unmask] , James Alan Anslow [log in to unmask]
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Call for papers – Ulsteinvik, Norway, JULY 29th – AUGUST 5th 2013
In “Remembering, Repeating and Working Through” Freud (1914g) posits acting out as the obverse of remembering. “‘Agieren’ write Laplanche and Pontalis (1973), “is nearly always coupled with ‘erinnern’, to remember, the two being contrasting ways of bringing the past into the present.” In Freud’s words: “the patient acts it before us, as it were, instead of reporting it to us” (1940a [1938]) – yielding to the compulsion to repeat. Acting out is thus located alongside repetition and resistance. But, can psychoanalytic discourse conceptualise actions, or political praxis, otherwise than as acting out? Is political praxis, from a psychoanalytic perspective, always to be understood as resistance to remembering in the context of transference? In Laplanche and Pontalis’ formulation: “One of the outstanding tasks of psycho-analysis is to ground the distinction between transference and acting out on criteria other than purely technical ones – or even mere considerations of locale (does something happen within the consulting room or not?). This task presupposes a reformulation of the concepts of action and actualisation and a fresh definition of the different modalities of communication.” Along this line of questioning, we might ask: is it possible to conceptualise psychoanalytically different kinds of acting?
Read more here: http://www.psa-pol.org/?p=222
Marlo J. De Lara
Doctoral Student of Psychosocial Studies
Audio Visual Technician
Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies
University of Essex
United Kingdom
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