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Final Call for Papers: Affect Theory Conference, October 14-17th 2015, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
http://www.affecttheorymu.com/
Stream #1 - Psychoanalysis, Affect, Time
Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck, University of London) - [log in to unmask]
Katie Gentile (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY) - [log in to unmask]
ALL PAPERS MUST BE SUBMITTED THROUGH THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE at [log in to unmask] by May 18th.
Introducing a journal issue on psychoanalysis and affect, José Muñoz wrote ‘the differences that are attributed to psychoanalysis and affect seem almost as pronounced as those attributed to drawing and the digital’ (2009). Muñoz then discussed a series of drawings by D-L Alvarez that suspend the distinction between drawing and the digital, showing how the differences between psychoanalysis and affect can also create a ‘between’, a space of encounter between the two. Many have since worked to upset the dichotomy between a theory of affect that gives primacy to surface, body, intensity, and the impersonal, and a theory of psychoanalysis preoccupied with depth and hidden, dynamic unconscious interiority. Discussions about intimacy, sexuality, trauma, memory, violence, ambivalence, vulnerability, fantasy, identification, anxiety, hope, melancholia, somatization, automaticity, panic, productive economies, and biopower, coupled with accounts of the contiguity between interiority and surface, have kept affect and psychoanalysis in that space of encounter.
This stream seeks to throw temporality into this ‘betweenness’. Time plays a central role in understanding what we mean by both affect and psychic life; from the infamous time delay between automaticity and cognition that allows us to grasp the ontology of affect, to the operations of après coup, remémoration, repetition, and the eternal multiple present of the psyche. This stream asserts that the utility of affective economies becomes manifest through the temporalities of psychic life. We wish to gather researchers working on the tinglings produced by the proximity of psychoanalysis, affect and time, not just drawing on Freud and Lacan, but on Bion, Bollas, Green, Kernberg, Klein, Laplanche, Loewald, Milner, Sandler and Winnicott, and a broad range of contemporary psychoanalytic and affect theory emerging from different geopolitical contexts that opens generative discussions about politics, ethics, affects and time.
Key topics and subtopics:
1. Time and the unconscious in affect theory and psychoanalysis
Reconfiguring the unconscious through the temporality of senses
The affective time of the transference
‘Going on’, persistence, endurance, attachment, ‘stuplimity’
Disruption, interruption, repetition, encounter, event
Time lags, delays, blocks, blankness, absence, loss, escape
Timelessness, chronic time, memory and counter-memory
Chronic illness, ‘prognosis’, futurity, anxiety
Chronic wellness, hope, optimism and its cruelties
2. Regulations, biopolitics, and affective economies inside and outside the clinic
Panic and control, contagion, hysteria
Sexualities, debilities, imperialisms
The time of national, religious and secular sentiment
The chronic conditions of late liberalism, neoliberalism, globalization, neocoloniality
The temporality of ‘strong’ ‘weak,’ and ‘everyday’ affects
Time and triggering, safe space, signal anxiety
Affective communities; time, community and habit
3. Material relations - psychoanalysis, affect, time and objects
The psychic and affective life of ‘things’
Hyper-, transitional, hoarded, abandoned objects
Speculative psychologies and polypsychism
Time and internal objects
Changeable and immutable things, inexhaustible objects, waste, the affective circulation of things
4. Psychoanalysis, Affect and the Temporality of Trauma
Time and traumatic memory, bodily memory, enactive witnessing,
Affective, inter-corporeal, intergenerational transmission
The historicity of trauma culture; politics of victimhood
Trauma and the body
Time and relationality
Submission details:
250-word PAPER ABSTRACTS – oriented to the accepted stream proposals –can now be submitted.
ALL PAPERS MUST BE SUBMITTED THROUGH THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE at [log in to unmask]
The final deadline for submissions is MONDAY, MAY 18.
To aid with proper routing, PLEASE INCLUDE THE STREAM # and/or NAME OF THE STREAM in the subject-line of your emailed paper submission.
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