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

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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