The Psychoanalysis Reading Group at Cornell University invites submissions for its sixth conference, featuring keynote speaker A. Kiarina Kordela (Macalester College). Time in/and Psychoanalysis Cornell University Psychoanalysis Reading Group Conference March 20-21, 2015 Time plays a central role for the psychoanalytic subject, be it the fantastic-futurity of the desiring subject, or the disruption of the present by traces of past traumas, both real and imaginary. Sigmund Freud introduced the Nachträglichkeit (belatedness) of the traumatic symptom, in which effects are deferred and re-lived much later than the precipitating event. Freud also argued that neurosis, psychosis, and hysteria each represent different relations to “reality” and to time. Through belated regressions to the past and symptomatic intrusions into the present, through the repetition compulsion that impedes any straightforward development into the present or the future, and through the dissociative time of amnesia, psychoanalysis shows that the temporality of the subject is not teleological, continuous, or straightforward. The various psychoanalytic schools and theorists have taken up in different ways Freud’s inaugural discussions of time; Jacques Lacan, among other temporal arguments, theorized Nachträglichkeit as a structure of causality, in which the subject retroactively assumes an imaginary causal order to the past traumatic event, but one which paradoxically is produced through the present, and through analysis. These and other temporal structures continue to return and develop, both internally to the field of psychoanalysis and in conjunction with other theoretical, philosophical and literary investigations into history, modernity, temporality and time. This conference asks the question: what is the role of time in psychoanalysis, be it the time of the drive, the unconscious, dreams, causality and symptom, repetition compulsion, the death drive, or simply the “time of analysis”? And further, how does a psychoanalytic approach to time address, inform, undermine, or support theories of time beyond the analytic situation? What is the temporality of history, capital, narrative, or memory, as informed by psychoanalysis? Within and beyond the realm of such current work exploring the various forms time takes in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory, we invite submissions of papers that enter in dialogue with contemporary theories of time and psychoanalytic thought. A. Kiarina Kordela is the author of $urplus: Spinoza, Lacan (SUNY Press 2007) and Being, Time, Bios: Capitalism and Ontology (SUNY Press 2013). The Cornell University Psychoanalytic Reading Group (PARG) welcomes graduate students and faculty to submit abstracts of 250-350 words. Submissions from all fields are welcome. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday, January 30, 2015. Please send abstracts to the Cornell University Psychoanalysis Reading Group at [email protected]. Notices of acceptance will be sent by Friday, February 6, 2015. Presenters will have 25 minutes each for their presentations with ample time for discussion afterward. .