Psychoanalysis, Literature and Practice

SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES

Convenors - Jan Campbell (Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist) Emma Francis (University of Warwick)

This group focuses on psychoanalysis in relation to contemporary debates about sexuality, affect, time, trauma, memory, space, virtual life and the life of objects. We bring texts under theoretical and clinical scrutiny, with the aim of creative engagement and cross-fertilisation between ideas of what ‘practice’ might mean within literature, culture and psychoanalysis. There is an emphasis on a return to texts by Freud and his immediate circle as well as later 20th century theorists such as Winnicott, Lacan, Klein, Milner and Bion. Contemporary work by such as Laplanche, Bollas, Phillips, Lomas and Eigen also falls within our view. Our reading of the theoretical work is inflected by attention to literary, art, dance, photographic or theatre texts and other cultural practices. Each week a commentator makes c. 30 minutes of remarks on the reading and then the discussion opens to the seminar.

The group meets on Fridays 5-7pm, at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E. It is generously funded by Warwick University’s Institute of Advanced Study and the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, London. For more information email [email protected] or [email protected] ______

28th February 2014 Text: Ian McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary (Yale UP: 2012) Chapter 2, ‘What do the Two Hemispheres Do?’ William Blake, Jerusalem (the long poem not the hymn in the Last Night of the Proms!), Chapter 1, Plates 1-25 Commentator: Rod Tweedy, Editor, Karnac Books (Those wishing to prepare more deeply might also read McGilchrist Chs 1, 6 and the conclusion of Part 2)

14th March 2014 Text: D.W. Winnicott, ‘Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena’, International Journal of Psychoanalysis 34:2 (1953), 89-97; rept. In Playing and Reality (Tavistock/Routledge: 1971), 1-25 Jane Rendall, ‘The Setting and the Social Condensor: Transitional Objects in Architecture and Psychoanalysis’, in Adam Sharr (ed), Architecture as Cultural Artifact (Routledge: 2013), 135-14 Cultural Practice: Architecture Commentator: Jane Rendell, Bartlett School of Architecture May 2nd 2014 Text: Leo Bersani, 'Sociability and Cruising' in Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays (University of Chicago Press: 2009) John Wieners and Frank O'Hara - selected poems Commentators: Barry Sheils, independent scholar and Julie Walsh, University of Warwick (Those wishing to prepare more deeply might read Freud, 'Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, 1921 and Georg Simmel, 'The Sociology of Sociability', 1910)

May 30th 2014 Text: Melanie Klein, ‘Envy and Gratitude’ [1957] in Envy and Gratitude and Other Works, 1946-1963 (rpt. Vintage: 1997), 176-235 Shakespeare: Othello Commentator: David Bell, Psychoanalyst and past President, British Psychoanalytical Society (Those wishing to prepare more deeply might read Klein’s essay ‘Infantile Anxiety Situations Reflected in a Work of Art and in the Creative Impulse’, in Love, Guilt and Reparation and Other Works, 1921-1945 (rpt. Vintage: 1998), 210-18)

June 13th 2014 Text: Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space {1958] trans. Maria Jolas, (Beacon Press: 1994), Chapter 1, ‘The House, From Cellar to Garret, the Significance of the Hut’ and Chapter 5, ‘Shells’ Cultural Practice: Intimate space Commentator: Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck, University of London and FBA

* 2011-12 series

21 October 2011 Text: Freud, ‘Psychoanalysis and Telepathy’ S.E. 18; Dreams and Telepathy’ S.E .18; George Eliot, ‘The Lifted Veil’. Commentator: Jan Campbell, University of Birmingham and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist.

18 November 2011 Text: D.W, Winnicott, ‘Dreaming, Fantasying and Living’ in Playing and Reality; Sally Mann, Last Light and The New Mothers. Commentator: Lesley Caldwell, Psychoanalyst and University College London. 9 December 2011 Text: Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle S.E. 18, Chs 4 and 5; Jean Laplanche ‘Why the Death Drive?’ Chapter 6 of Life and Death in Psychoanalysis; Emily Dickinson, selected poems. Commentator: Josh Cohen, Goldsmiths, University of London and Psychoanalyst.

13 January 2012 Text: Freud: ‘Typical Dreams’ Section D, Chapter V of The Interpretation of Dreams; Jean Laplanche ‘Implantation, Intromission’, in Essays on Otherness; Shakespeare, Hamlet; Sophocles Oedipus Rex. Commentator: John Fletcher, University of Warwick.

3 February 2012 Text: Susanne Langer ‘The Symbol of Feeling’ in Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art; Kenneth Wright, Faces, Found Objects, Significant Form - selected photographs Commentator: Kenneth Wright, Psychoanalyst.

16 March 2012 Text: Christopher Bollas, Hysteria; Henry James, The Wings of the Dove. Commentator: Nicola Diamond, University of East London and Psychoanalytic- Psychotherapist.

1 June 2012 Text: Didier Anzieu, The Skin Ego pp. 71-87 and 109-111; Laurence of Arabia (dir. David Lean, 1962) Commentator: Steve Pile, Open University.

2012-13 series

1 October 2012 Text: Marion Milner, The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis (London: Tavistock, 1987) Ch12 ‘1956: Psychoanalysis and Art’ (pp.192-215) and Ch 10 (excerpt) ‘1955: The Communication of Primary Sensual Experience’ (pp 114-137) Cultural text: art by William Blake and by Milner’s patients embedded in the text Commentator: Maud Ellmann, University of Chicago

9 November 2012 Text: Freud, ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ (SE XIV); Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (1855), selected lyrics Commentator: Darian Leader, Psychoanalyst

7 December 2012 Text: Freud, ‘The Theme of the Three Caskets’ (SE XII); Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (London: Pimlico, 1973) Chapter 12 ‘Malignant Aggression: Necrophilia’ Shakespeare, the Merchant of Venice Commentator: Christian Smith, University of Warwick

25 January 2013 Text: Freud, ‘The Uncanny’ (SE XVII); Joseph Conrad, ‘The Secret Sharer’ (1910) Commentator: Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex

23 February 2013 Text: Christopher Bollas, The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known (London: Free Association, 1987) Chapter 8, ‘The Normotic Illness’ Cultural practice: money Commentators: Steve Cross, University of the Arts and Liz Moor, Goldsmiths, University of London

15 March 2013 Text: Ella Sharpe, ‘Certain Aspects of Sublimation and Delusion’, International Journal of Psychoanalysis 11 (1930), 12-23; Isadora Duncan, ‘The Dance of the Future [1902] rpt in Sheldon Cheney (ed) Isadora Duncan: The Art of the Dance (New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1969); George Balanchine, Chaconne (Farrell/ Martin, 1976) Commentator: Kirsty Hall, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

10 May 2013 Text: D.W. Winnicott, ‘This Feminism’ and ‘The Pill and Moon’ in Home is Where We Start From (Penguin: 1986), Oral History text: Juliet Mitchell, 1965, Psychoanalysis and Feminism (short film) Commentator: Sally Alexander, Goldsmiths, University of London and Institute of Historical Research

28 June 2013 Text: Freud, ‘Remembering, Repeating and Working Through’ (1914) SE XII, 147-155. Sharon Kivland, Reproductions I & II – selected images Commentator: Sharon Kivland, Artist