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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:48:11 +0100
From: "Susannah Radstone" <S.Radstone-AT-uel.ac.uk> (by way of Hilary
Subject: psychoanalysis and culture conference



Dear all - the following may be of interest. Please reply to the 
address below, not to me -
Hilary Robinson



Culture and the Unconscious: Psychoanalysts, Artists and Academics in Dialogue





Conference to be held on July 11th and 12th 2003, at School of 
Oriental and African Studies, London WC1.



Jointly organised by the British Psychoanalytical Society, the 
Tavistock Clinic and the University of East London



Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Prof. Slavoj Zizek



Outline of Conference

Psychoanalysis has always wandered beyond the consulting room. 
Alongside clinical texts, Freud and his followers wrote speculatively 
on art and artists, politics, war and civilisation, and this cultural 
engagement has been fully sustained by later analytic generations. 
The creative arts and literature have been widely admired by 
psychoanalysts, many of whom believe that creative artists have 
conveyed  the deepest of all understandings of unconscious mental 
life. More recently, psychoanalysis in many hues has permeated 
cultural criticism and the universities, influencing studies of film, 
television, the visual arts, biography, fiction, theatre and poetry, 
and other art forms.  Although psychoanalysts and academics are often 
drawn to the same painting, film or play, their approaches commonly 
use psychoanalysis differently and address different audiences.



Until now, conversations between these three worlds of 
psychoanalysis, the academy, and the creative arts, have rarely taken 
place. Such conversations will form the basis of Culture and the 
Unconscious, an international interdisciplinary conference that will 
bring together psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, artists and 
academics to discuss such fields as film and television, literature, 
drama and poetry, the visual arts, and biography. Through these 
conversations Culture and the Unconscious will bring together the 
worlds of psychoanalysis, academia, and the creative arts. It will 
produce a lively, illuminating and thought-provoking event that 
should be of interest to all those interested in psychoanalysis and 
culture.



Conference Themes Will Include:



*        Creativity and the artist

*        Culture and  emotion

*        Culture as resistance

*        Psychoanalytic aesthetics

*        Genres and the unconscious

*        Morality and art.



Call for Papers and Contributions

Offers of papers or other contributions for the above Conference are 
invited. These may be from psychoanalysts or psychoanalytic 
psychotherapists, academics, critics or journalists, or creative 
artists. They may also be for panels involving co-operation between 
any of these participants.  Contributions may be focused on a 
particular genre of work (for example film or poetry), a particular 
artist or writer, or a particular psychoanalytic perspective. 
Because the purpose of the conference is to facilitate dialogue 
between these different spheres of work, the organisers will be 
particularly pleased to receive proposals for collaborative or joint 
sessions between psychoanalysts, academics and artists. We will also 
however be very glad to receive offers of individual conference 
papers.

The Conference will have both plenary  sessions, with speakers drawn 
from the different contributing fields, and smaller panel sessions. 
The organisers will discuss with those offering contributions what 
would be the most appropriate setting for the presentation and 
discussion of their work.



Offers should be made to the Organising Committee at the email or 
postal address given below, by November 30 2002. They should take the 
form of an abstract of not more than 500 words.



Conference Organising Committee



Caroline Bainbridge, Christine Clegg, Marilyn Lawrence, Susannah 
Radstone, Michael Rustin, Candida Yates.



Offers of papers to Prof Michael Rustin, School of Social Sciences, 
University of East London, Barking Campus, Dagenham RM8 2AS 
(<mailto:m.j.rustin-AT-uel.ac.uk>m.j.rustin-AT-uel.ac.uk).

****************************************************************************************



The organisers would also like to draw your attention to a further 
conference which may be of interest:



The 'Freudian Century'?  The Impact of Psycho-Analysis on 
Intellectual Life in Britain



May 16-17  2003



The British Psycho-Analytical Society, London



Contributors will include  Sally Alexander, Steve Connor, John 
=46orrester Nadia Fusini, Fred Halliday, Michael Holroyd, Roger Kennedy 
Jonathan Lear, Juliet Mitchell, Laura Mulvey, Daniel Pick, Suzanne 
Raitt, Charles Stewart.



The conference will explore the history of the relationship between 
psycho-analysis, culture and the human sciences in twentieth-century 
Britain.  Speakers will examine the reception of 'the unconscious' 
in  disciplines ranging from Anthropology   to Film Studies, 
Biography to Medicine, History to Literary Criticism, Philosophy to 
Psychiatry.



Participants will also be able to visit a specially mounted display 
of documents, rare  images, tapes and other artefacts relating to the 
history of psychoanalysis in Britain. The exhibition will be 
introduced by  Ken Robinson, on behalf of the  BPAS Archives 
Committee.

=46or further details please contact Linda Carter Jackson at the BPAS, 
112A - 114 Shirland Road London  W9 2EQ.  Tel. 0207 563 5010   e-mail 
<mailto:bulletin-AT-compuserve.com>bulletin-AT-compuserve.com





=46ull Price =A3100

Concessions (Students, Unwaged) =A350

Ticket includes Cost of Refreshments and Conference Reception


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Dear all - the following may be of interest. Please reply to the address below, not to me -
Hilary Robinson



Culture and the Unconscious: Psychoanalysts, Artists and Academics in Dialogue
 
 
Conference to be held on July 11th and 12th 2003, at School of Oriental and African Studies, London WC1.
 
Jointly organised by the British Psychoanalytical Society, the Tavistock Clinic and the University of East London
 
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Prof. Slavoj Zizek
 
Outline of Conference
Psychoanalysis has always wandered beyond the consulting room. Alongside clinical texts, Freud and his followers wrote speculatively on art and artists, politics, war and civilisation, and this cultural engagement has been fully sustained by later analytic generations.  The creative arts and literature have been widely admired by psychoanalysts, many of whom believe that creative artists have conveyed  the deepest of all understandings of unconscious mental life. More recently, psychoanalysis in many hues has permeated cultural criticism and the universities, influencing studies of film, television, the visual arts, biography, fiction, theatre and poetry, and other art forms.  Although psychoanalysts and academics are often drawn to the same painting, film or play, their approaches commonly use psychoanalysis differently and address different audiences.
 
Until now, conversations between these three worlds of psychoanalysis, the academy, and the creative arts, have rarely taken place. Such conversations will form the basis of Culture and the Unconscious, an international interdisciplinary conference that will bring together psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, artists and academics to discuss such fields as film and television, literature, drama and poetry, the visual arts, and biography. Through these conversations Culture and the Unconscious will bring together the worlds of psychoanalysis, academia, and the creative arts. It will produce a lively, illuminating and thought-provoking event that should be of interest to all those interested in psychoanalysis and culture.
 
Conference Themes Will Include:
 
*        Creativity and the artist
*        Culture and  emotion
*        Culture as resistance
*        Psychoanalytic aesthetics
*        Genres and the unconscious
*        Morality and art.
 
Call for Papers and Contributions
Offers of papers or other contributions for the above Conference are invited. These may be from psychoanalysts or psychoanalytic psychotherapists, academics, critics or journalists, or creative artists. They may also be for panels involving co-operation between any of these participants.  Contributions may be focused on a particular genre of work (for example film or poetry), a particular artist or writer, or a particular psychoanalytic perspective.   Because the purpose of the conference is to facilitate dialogue between these different spheres of work, the organisers will be particularly pleased to receive proposals for collaborative or joint sessions between psychoanalysts, academics and artists. We will also however be very glad to receive offers of individual conference papers.
The Conference will have both plenary  sessions, with speakers drawn from the different contributing fields, and smaller panel sessions. The organisers will discuss with those offering contributions what would be the most appropriate setting for the presentation and discussion of their work.
 
Offers should be made to the Organising Committee at the email or postal address given below, by November 30 2002. They should take the form of an abstract of not more than 500 words.
 
Conference Organising Committee
 
Caroline Bainbridge, Christine Clegg, Marilyn Lawrence, Susannah Radstone, Michael Rustin, Candida Yates.
 
Offers of papers to Prof Michael Rustin, School of Social Sciences, University of East London, Barking Campus, Dagenham RM8 2AS (m.j.rustin-AT-uel.ac.uk).

****************************************************************************************
 
The organisers would also like to draw your attention to a further conference which may be of interest:
 
The 'Freudian Century'?  The Impact of Psycho-Analysis on Intellectual Life in Britain
 
May 16-17  2003
 
The British Psycho-Analytical Society, London
 
Contributors will include  Sally Alexander, Steve Connor, John Forrester Nadia Fusini, Fred Halliday, Michael Holroyd, Roger Kennedy  Jonathan Lear, Juliet Mitchell, Laura Mulvey, Daniel Pick, Suzanne Raitt, Charles Stewart.
 
The conference will explore the history of the relationship between psycho-analysis, culture and the human sciences in twentieth-century Britain.  Speakers will examine the reception of 'the unconscious'  in  disciplines ranging from Anthropology   to Film Studies, Biography to Medicine, History to Literary Criticism, Philosophy to Psychiatry.
 
Participants will also be able to visit a specially mounted display of documents, rare  images, tapes and other artefacts relating to the history of psychoanalysis in Britain. The exhibition will be introduced by  Ken Robinson, on behalf of the  BPAS Archives Committee.
For further details please contact Linda Carter Jackson at the BPAS, 112A - 114 Shirland Road London  W9 2EQ.  Tel. 0207 563 5010   e-mail bulletin-AT-compuserve.com
 
 
Full Price =A3100
Concessions (Students, Unwaged) =A350
Ticket includes Cost of Refreshments and Conference Reception
 
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