To Whom It May Concern,
I am emailing with regard to the forthcoming annual GLITS conference,
which will be held at Goldsmiths, University of London. The title of
the conference is "Textual Embodiment: Literature, the Body and
Psychoanalysis." I would be grateful if you could circulate this call
for papers to your faculty members and postgraduate students who are
studying in the areas of literature or psychoanalysis.
Date: Tuesday 5th August 2014
Location: Goldsmiths, University of London, Richard Hoggart Building,
Small Hall Cinema
Keynote Speakers:
?Professor Naomi Segal (Birkbeck, University of London)
??and
?Professor Josh Cohen (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Peter Brooks tells us that, "we constitute ourselves as human subjects
in part through our fictions and therefore that the study of human
fiction-making and the study of psychic process are convergent
activities and superimposable forms of analysis" (Brooks "The Idea of"
341). Here Brooks invites a reflection on how individuals are
structured both physically and psychically through language through
reading, writing, images, and fiction. The central theme of this
conference is about how the literary text and the soma interlink. We
are interested in sharing thoughts about how the body is composed as a
fiction and through fiction, and how fiction is created as and through
the body.
Textual embodiment conjures ideas about how bodies of literature are
written and read. Furthermore, it raises notions about how reading and
writing affect the individual both physically and psychically. Textual
endeavors may alter the way a person imagines herself, how she feels
and acts, how she is constructed.
Psychoanalysis has always been concerned with what everyday language
and gestures can tell us about our internal selves. Moreover there is
a parallel between how the analyst/analysand and reader/writer
exchanges may modify one's psychic and somatic constitution. In light
of these concepts, we're interested in how physical and psychical
signs and fictions are inscribed upon the body.
We invite panels and papers from postgraduate students and early
career researchers on the relationship between literature and the
body, especially in light of psychoanalysis.
Subjects for consideration might include (but are not limited to):
? The skin ego, the word as flesh, affect
? Fictional and bodily traces, conversion, the "foreign body"
? Pain and wounding, violence and destruction, fragmentation, negation
? Object relations theories, holding and containing, physical space,
bodily borders
? The "Mystic Writing Pad," palimpsest and rewriting, screen memory
Abstracts of no more than 300 words are invited for submission by 27th
June 2014.
Please email Monika Loewy and Beth Guilding at
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For further information, please go to:
?http://www.gold.ac.uk/ecl/glits/the-embodied-text/
Thank you and best,
Conference organisers Monika and Beth?
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