Psychoanalysis, Culture, and the State (12/15/02; 5/2/03-5/5/03)

Psychoanalysis, Culture, and the State

This theme in "Culture and the State, Past, Present, and Future," invites paper and panel proposals.

Theories and exercises of psychoanalysis have recently undergone renovation, in large part due to Derrida's critique of "resistance" and "analysis" as opposing forces. In this sense, the discursive operation of psychoanalysis shares with the modern state disavowals of force that proceed as the norm.

We invite proposals that examine the impact that psychoanalytic ideas and classifications have had on culture and the state as well as critical dissections of the discursive formations of psychoanalysis, culture and the state, and their prohibitions.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* analyses of psychoanalytic discipline, practice, and ideas of analysis and interpretation
* postcolonial critiques of (western) psychoanalysis and/or the state
* feminist interpretations of Freudian and Lacanian "complexes"
* psychoanalytic readings of state juridical resistances
* readings of prohibitions

Please send an abstract of one page for a proposed paper of 20 minutes, to be given in English or French, to the theme coordinator, Tram Nguyen. Submissions should be received by December 15th, and email submissions are encouraged.

Theme Coordinator:

Tram Nguyen
Department of English
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada, T6G 2E5
tramn@ualberta.ca

The conference will be held in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) at the University of Alberta from May 2-5, 2003, and will involve several different themes relating to Culture and the State. The conference is also sponsored by the Canadian Research Chairs program.

Visit the conference website:
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cms

About Edmonton:
http://www.tourism.ede.org/