seminar at the University of Essex:
Open Seminar Schedule 2009/10
ALL WELCOME
The Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies has offered a series of Open Seminars for
many years. The seminars are open to all and are regularly attended by present
and past students and staff of the Centre, members of the University at any
level, and mental health professionals and other interested individuals in the
locality.
The Seminars take place in Room 4N.6.1, from 5-6.30pm.
28th October 2009
Lisa Ruddick: Academic Cool and the Shaming of the Inner World
Lisa Ruddick is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She
is the author of Reading Gertrude Stein: Body, Text, Gnosis (Cornell, 1990), and
has published articles on the intellectual life of the humanities in the United
States. This is the subject of her book in progress, Intuition and Brutality in
Academic Life.
Abstract: Since the 1980s, U.S. literary scholarship has been guided by
poststructuralist theories that cast doubt on the value of the "self" and the
"inner life." As practicing psychoanalysts on both sides of the Atlantic know,
these are not the only sophisticated theories available for describing
subjectivity. Why, then, have they enjoyed such dominance in the milieu of
higher learning? The theories are valued because they serve to enforce group
discipline in what has become an insular and paranoid academic subculture. They
chip away at member’s faith in their own inner worlds, capturing them for the
profession itself and its agendas.
http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/psycho/open-seminars/index-os.htm
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