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The Matter of the Unconscious Tout Corps, Corps De Personne : La Matière De L'inconscient Preliminary Program Any Body, Anybody: The Matter of the Unconscious Tout Corps, Corps de Personne : La Matière de l'inconscient Ninth Annual Meeting of the Société Internationale de Psychanalyse et Philosophie/International Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy at The New School Sponsored by: DIVISION/Review of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, Eugene Lang College, The Ferenczi Center, and Das Unbehagen Organized by Jamieson Webster and Elissa Marder Organizing Committee- Chiara Bottici, Patricia Gherovici, Adrienne Harris, David Lichtenstein, Beatriz Santos Thursday – November 10th Sexuality in Translation 8:30 coffee 8:45 welcome remarks 9-12 Workshop on The Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality based on the new translation of original 1905 version 9:00-10:30 Part I: Re-editing the 1905 Three Essays Philippe Van Haute (Radboud University), Ulrike Kistner (University of Pretoria) Herman Westerink (Radboud University) 10:30-12:00 Part II: Re-reading the 1905 Three Essays Moderator: Emily Apter. Participants: Ben Kafka (NYU), Alexander Miller (NYU), Ann Pellegrini (NYU), Stella Sanford (Kingston) This workshop is devoted to inviting panel presenters and audience members to engage in a dynamic re- reading/reconsideration of Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality in light of the newly translated English edition of the 1905 original German text that is forthcoming from Verso books in 2017. The editorial team includes: Philippe Van Haute, Ulrike Kistner, and Herman Westerink. As the editors explain in their introduction, the first edition of this classic work from 1905 shows a radically different psychoanalysis from the one that we know today. In the first part of the workshop, the editorial team of the volume will discuss how and why they decided to engage in this project and what they learned from the process. The second part of the workshop will be comprised of a panel discussion, moderated by Professor Emily Apter (NYU) and featuring speakers Stella Stanford (Kingston U); Ann Pellegrini (NYU), Alexander Miller (NYU) and Ben Kafka (psychoanalyst and NYU professor). Three texts will be made available to participants in the workshop: 1) the editors’ prefatory note, “Translating the First Edition of Freud’s Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie”; 2) the Introduction, “Hysteria, Sexuality, and the Deconstruction of Normativity: Re-reading Freud’s 1905 edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality; 3) the new translation of the 1905 text. People interested in attending the workshop are invited to register with SIPP/ISPP to get access to the texts under discussion. La Maison française at New York University - 16 Washington Mews 12-1:30 lunch 1:30- 3 Concurrent Panels Adventures of the Anus - 66 West 12th Street, Orozco Room A712 Violence and Tenderness - 79 Fifth Avenue, Room D1618 The Matter of Lacan and Philosophy - 6 East 16th Street, Room 001 3:15- 4:15 Patricia Gherovici (Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association) “Signed N.O. Body: Writing the Body” Respondent - Nelson da Silva Jr. (University Sao Paolo) 66 West 12th Street, Orozco Room A712 4:30 -5:30 Beatriz Santos (University of Paris Diderot) “Naming Bodies: What Can Psychoanalysis Learn from Research on Gender Violence and Feminicide” Respondent - Adrienne Harris (NYU Post-Doc) 66 West 12th Street, Orozco Room A712 6-8 Monique David-Ménard (University Paris VII) to the Philosophy Department at The New School for Social Research for the Thursday Night Colloquium "Body of The Drives, Bodies in Politics: Anonymous or Impersonal?" 6 East 16th Street, Wolff Conference Room D1103 8:30 Small Dinner with Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee/Executive Board of SIPP Bacaro Restaurant - 136 Division Street Friday – November 11th 9-10:30 Concurrent Panels Politics of Collective Bodies - 6 East 16th Street, Wolff Conference Room D1103 The Body of the Analyst/The Body of the Patient – 6 East 16th Street, D1645 Tense Bodies and Other Bodily Interventions - 6 East 16th Street, D704 To Suffer Unto Death - 6 East 16th Street, D705 10:45-12 “Re-reading Freud’s Taboo on Virginity: Anhedonia, Asexuality, Anorexia” – Britta Gunther (Hamburg), Elissa Marder (Emory), Jamieson Webster (The New School) Respondent - Kyoo Lee (City University of New York) 6 East 16th Street, Wolff Conference Room D1103 12-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3 Concurrent Panels The Gendered Body – 6 East 16th Street, Wolff Conference Room D1103 Matters of Aesthetic Experience - 6 East 16th Street, D901 The Body as Prosthetic God - 6 East 16th Street, D902 The Matter of the Schizoanalytic Unconscious - 80 Fifth Avenue, G529 3:15 – 5:15 Tracy McNulty (Cornell) “The Body in the Procedure of the Pass” and Elizabeth Rottenberg (De Paul) “Psychoanalysis and the Language of Chance” Respondent - Steven Miller (Buffalo) 6 East 16th Street, Wolff Conference Room D1103 5:30-7:30 “Body in the Clinic” – Hugo Lana (University Sao Paolo) and Pedro Ambra(University Sao Paolo/Paris Diderot), Nelson da Silva Jr (University Sao Paolo), Paolo Beer (University Sao Paolo) and Mario Senhorini (University Sao Paolo), Tim Dean (University of Illinois), Rafael Kalaf Cossi (University Sao Paolo) Chair - Elissa Marder (Emory) Respondent - Monique David-Ménard (University Paris VII) 6 East 16th Street, Wolff Conference Room D1103 8 Banquet Dinner for all participants Yee Li Restaurant – 60 Bayard Street Saturday – November 12th All Events on final day will take place at: 6 East 16th Street, Wolff Conference Room D1103 The La-La Showdown A Lacan-Laplanche Debate at The Ferenczi Center 9-10:15 “Reading Laplanche With and Against Freud” - Todd Dean (St. Louis Psychoanalytic), Jens De Vleminck (Belgian School for Psychoanalysis), Jasper Faeyerts (Sao Paolo University) Chair - Jeremy Safran (The New School) Respondent - Jonathan House (Columbia Psychoanalytic) 10:30-12:30 Debate Jacques Lacan and Jean Laplanche differed over the formative role of language in unconscious mental representation. These differences, outlined in work over many years, will be revisited in a contemporary debate on their meaning, history, and clinical significance. Does language establish the conditions for the unconscious or does the unconscious establish the conditions for language? Current interest in these two psychoanalytic thinkers suggests that much remains to be uncovered in these questions. Overview: David Lichtenstein (Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association) Moderators: Adrienne Harris (NYU Post-Doc)/Jeremy Safran (The New School) Team Lacan: Marcus Coelen (LMU Munich), Steven Miller (Buffalo), Cecilia Sjöholm (Södetörn University), Jamieson Webster (The New School) + Patricia Gherovici (Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association) Team Laplanche: Ilka Quindeau (Frankfurt University), Jakob Staberg (Södetörn University), Avgi Saketopoulo (NYU Post-Doc), Tim Dean (University of Illinois) + Adrienne Harris (NYU Post-doc) 12:30-2 Lunch 2-3 Isabelle Alfandary (University Paris VII) “Body Language” Respondent - Christian Dunker (University Sao Paolo) 3– 4:45 “The Politics of Incorporation” - Chiara Bottici (The New School), Vladimir Safatle (Sao Paolo Unveristy), Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc (Toulouse University), Guilherme Massara-Rocha (University Minas Gerais) Respondent - Elliot Jurist (City University of New York) 4:45 – 6 “Psychotic Bodies” - Suley Aires (Recôncavo da Bahia University), Eyal Rozmarin (NYU Post-Doc), Mark Stoholski (Emory) Respondent - Marcus Coelen (LMU Munich) 6:15 – Business meeting 10 – Drinks - TBA Panels Anal Adventures – (Jamieson Webster) Jeremy Biles (Art Institute of Chicago) Benjamin Y. Fong (Arizona State) Christie Offenbacher (NYU) Violence and Tenderness – (Jens De Vleminck) Patrick Vandermeersch (University of Groningen): “The Whipped Body: Whose Body?” Andre Costa (Univeristy of Sao Paolo): “Body and Violence: Ruptures Between Individual and Society” Stephanie Colleta Emma Ma Koziej (Emory): “In Search of Adult Erotic Tenderness” Sandrine Rose Schiller Hansen (Leuven): “Clinging to the Redundant: On the Phenomenon of Habit and the Death Drive” The Matter of Lacan And Philosophy – (Kerry Moore) Lea Silveira (Federal University de Lavras): “On Body, Knowledge and Truth: Referrals to Explore the Philosophical Conditions of the Possibility of Psychoanalytic Experience” Erik Bryngelsson (Södetörn University): “Who are you? What is your name?” Isabelle Letellier (Stockholm University): “Positions, Emotions, and Lacan- A Pre-Psychoanalytic Reading of Body, Feeling and Perceiving” Politics of Collective Bodies – (Vladimir Safatle) Gabriela Costardi (University of Sao Paolo): “Jouissance as a Political Category” Andrew Kaplan (University of Illinois): “Is a Psychoanalysis of the Flesh for Anybody? (Anti-) Blackness, Civil Society, and Traversing the Fundamental Fantasy of White Supremacy” Nicholas Smith (Södetörn University): “Beyond Lacan and the Jouissance of Whiteness: Towards a De-Colonial Critique of Psychoanalysis” The Body of the Analyst/The Body of the Patient – (David Lichtenstein) Jason Royal (Columbia): “The Problem of Theory and its Relation to Technique” Veronica Csillag (NYU): “Haunted by Ghosts: Embodied Countertransference” Tiago Tavares De Lima (The New School): “The Invocatory Drive and the Materiality of the Voice” To Suffer Unto Death – (Evan Malater) Marcus Cesar Ricci Teshainer (Radboud University): “Politics and Psychic Suffering- A Study on Agamben and Psychoanalysis” Sarah Marshall (University of Memphis): “Spectral Morphologies: Conjuring Abraham and Torok to the 8eme Séance of Derrida’s The Death Penalty”
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