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[ecrea] cfp - the body and psychoanalysis in our time - the summer session in Iceland

Wed Apr 16 06:29:07 GMT 2014




The Second session of the research initiative entitled Psychoanalysis in Our time http://psychoanalysisinourtime.wordpress.com/ (supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers http://s2014.nsuweb.org/ ) is due to take place between 24th July-30th July 2014 in Iceland.

Please find below the CAll for Papers for the session Please send a not longer than a 300 word abstract to myself (Agnieszka.Piotrowska /at/ beds.ac.uk) and copy Anna Anna Ioannou <(ioannou7 /at/ googlemail.com)> before noon 2nd May 2014.
For further information about NSU and the summer Symposium please visit:


PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE BODY

This session follows on directly from our highly succesful winter session in Copenhagen in which the issues of bodily trauma and representation were prominent.

Psychoanalysis has always been interested in the relationship between the mind and the body. Freud's development of psychoanalytic theory and treatment originated from his consideration of the great range of embodied signs constituting the hysterical neuroses. Symptoms and signs, Freud noted in 1895, 'join in the conversation' by taking bodily form.

Lacan always talked about the intersubjective relationship between the analyst and the analysand, through speech. However, in his later work, particular Seminar XX and XXIII, he turns his attention to the body and its effects in the Symbolic.

The topic of embodiment in psychoanalysis from both theoretical and clinical points of view, clinical phenomena such as self-mutilation, fantasy about the body and its representations and meanings, enactment, sexuality, and psychotic fragmentation can be addressed in an attempt to extend our understanding of the psychoanalytic traditions that have evolved in relation to Freud's discoveries.

Joyce McDougall, author of 'Theatres of the Body' and an expert on psychosomatic conditions speaks of the emotional and physical toll it takes to be an analyst. The analyst is a 'prisoner of her chair', she observed. She described ways in which the therapist's body becomes integrated into the analytic work - for instance the traumatic impact, yet opportunity, if the analyst becomes pregnant.

Chasseguet Smirgel’s discussion of the 20th Century phenomenon where the destruction of one’s body to destroy others, both seen on a political level with suicidal bombers as well as an individual psychopathological level in cases of eating disorders, is a particular potent one in our times.

What is the body in psychoanalysis? What is affect? What do people mean when they talk about bodily experiences in film reception? What is the role of the unconscious in it? What is affect in art?

The symposium as always welcomes practitioners and theorists from all disciplines.

Further details on the summer session:

Welcome to Nordic Summer University Summer Session 2014 that will take place July 24-31, 2014 in Sauðárkrókur, Iceland. NSU is proud to present keynote speakers: Stefanie von Schnurbein and Erin Manning. Stefanie von Schnurbein is professor for Modern Scandinavian Literature at the Departmen for Northern European Studies atcHumboldt-UniversitycBerlin.

Erin Manning holds a University Research Chair in Relational Art and Philosophy in the Faculty of Fin Arts at Concordia University(Montreal, Canada). Please see further details on the NSUu website s above. Please note that you need to register online.

Please not ealso that there will be free domestic travel for ALL participants between Keflavík International Airport and the session’s location at Sauðárkrókur North
Iceland.

Arrival:
Thursday July
24, 2014

Departure:
ThursdayJuly
31,2014


Best wishes

Dr. Agnieszka Piotrowska
Reader in Film Practice and Theory
Course Leader MA/MSc Digital Film
University of Bedfordshire
Luton, LU1 3JU, UK
Monograph: Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415813495/




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