Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 20:57:43 -0500 (CDT)
From: Erik D Lindberg <edl-AT-csd.uwm.edu>
Subject: Conference Announcement. (fwd)




Erik D. Lindberg
Dept. of English and Comparative Lit.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI  53211
email: edl-AT-csd.uwm.edu

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 11:47:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Katz <SKATZ-AT-trentu.ca>
To: Foucault-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Conference Announcement.

From:	IVORY::SLYNCH       "Shirley Lynch" 16-MAR-1995 10:53:21.96
To:	SKATZ
CC:	SLYNCH
Subj:	Info for Internet (Fouault Study Group) 

                           Conference 
                      Foucault and Psychoanalysis
                   University  of Western  Ontario 
                          Spring  1996 
                  Organizer:   Richard Dellamora  


The purpose of the conference is to bring together graduate students and 
members of faculty from Canada and the United States to consider the 
relationship between Foucault and the thought and institution of 
psychoanalysis.  Full-length papers (45 minutes) will address this question 
by returning to writing by early Foucault, that is Foucault's work up to 
and including THE MADNESS OF CIVILIZATION (1961), in relation to the 
concept of agency in Foucault's thought.  Proposals are welcome that focus 
not only on textual analysis but also on historical, political, and 
philosophic contexts in which Foucault first began to publish. 

Because of Foucault's antagonism to institutional formations of 
psychoanalysis, it is often assumed that he merely negates the significance 
of psychoanalysis in contemporary thinking.  This assumption, however, 
needs to be weighed against the assertion that he makes in THE ORDER OF 
THINGS (1970):"Psychoanalysis and ethnology occupy a privileged position in 
our knowledge--not because they have established the foundations of their 
positivity better than any other human science, and at last accomplished 
the old attempt to be truly scientific; but rather because, on the confines 
of all the branches of knowledge investigating man, they form an undoubted 
and inexhaustible treasure-hoard of experiences and concepts, and above all 
a perpetual principle of dissatisfaction, of calling into question, of 
criticism and contestation of what may seem, in other respects, to be 
established." In what ways does Foucault respond positively to 
psychoanalysis as "perpetual principle of dissatisfaction" in his first 
engagements with it?

The conference will last one and one half days.  Funding to enable 
panelists to present papers is being sought by means of an application for 
a conference grant submitted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research 
Council of Canada.

Proposals and suggestions for the conference should be sent to: Richard 
Dellamora, Cultural Studies Programme, Trent University, Peterborough, 
Ontario K9J 7B8.  Phone: 416-778-5400; fax: 705-748-1430; e-mail 
RDellamora-AT-TrentU.CA. 

Conference organizer: Richard Dellamora is a Visiting Scholar at the Centre 
for the Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario, 
winter term, 1996.  He completed APOCALYPTIC OVERTURES: SEXUAL POLITICS AND 
THE SENSE OF AN ENDING (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1994) while a Visiting Fellow 
in the department of English at Princeton University in 1992-1993.  He is 
also the author of MASCULINE DESIRE: THE SEXUAL POLITICS OF VICTORIAL 
AESTHETICISM (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1990) and POSTMODERN 
APOCALYPSE:CULTURAL THEORY AND PRACTICE AT THE END (Cultural Studies 
Series, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming September, 1995).


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