Psychoanalysis in Our Time Conference 2018: Psychoanalysis, Nationalism and Ideology
Sopot/University of Gdansk, 5th-7th October 2018
Please note, all events take place at the conference venue, Rewita Sopot (Korab) Ul. Kilinskiego 12, 81-772 Sopot, unless otherwise stated.
Abstracts can be read here: https://psychoanalysisinourtime.wordpress.com/abstracts-6/
FRIDAY
09:45 Registration
10:15 Opening
10:30 Panel 1: Discourses of Capitalism
Michał Wróblewski – “Žižek as a critic of New Age”
Antoni Grzybowski – “Capitalism and Its Discontents. Culture of Narcissism as a symptom of Jacques Lacan’s ‘capitalist discourse’”
Kemal Güleç – “The Ideology of Enjoyment”
Teet Teinemaa – “‘We are all just on our own’: Ideology and freedom in Killing Them Softly”
12:30 Lunch & travel to University of Gdansk
14:00 Alenka Zupančič Keynote: “Love your neighbor as yourself!?” [University of Gdansk]
15:55 Break [University of Gdansk]
16:15 Repented (Agnieszka Piotrowska) screening, introduced by Miroslaw Przylipiak and followed by Q&A with Agnieszka Piotrowska and Thomas Elsaesser [University of Gdansk]
18:00 Book Launch with Thomas Elsaesser and Miroslaw Przylipiak, followed by drinks reception [University of Gdansk]
SATURDAY
09:30 Panel 2: Gender, Sexuality, Transference
Priyanka Verma – “Intersectionality and ideology in cinema and culture: An analysis of Parched (Sex and the Village: An Indian Version)”
Philip Højme – “An Exploration of the Homophobic Understanding of Fascist Ideology in Adorno – A Critical Reevaluation of Orthodox Freudian Understanding of the Homosexual”
Candela Potente – “Transference and Authority: Within and Beyond the Psychoanalytic Frame”
11:00 Break
11:20 Thomas Elsaesser Keynote: “The Ideologies and Ethics of Proximity: Neighbours, Guests and Strangers”
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Panel 3: Protest and Resistance
Cynthia Cruz – “The Anorexic Act of No as a Form of Resistance”
Martin Hall – “‘The inexistent of the world’: British Cinema, 1968 and the symptom”
Allister Mactaggart – “Is it the Real Thing? Ideology, Enjoyment and the Politics of the Symptom”
15:30 Break
16:00 Panel 4: Art, Performance, Myth
Justyna Wierzchowska – “Motherless Subjects and Mothered Selves: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and the Maternal”
Kate Katafiasz – “Shorting the ‘Fake News’ Circuit with the Slovenian School: a dramatic approach”
Ewelina Topolska – “Fromm’s Concept of Necrophilia as a Key to Understanding Contemporary Political and Cultural Phenomena in Poland”
17:30 Close
19:30 Conference Dinner [Depart hotel 19:00]
SUNDAY
09:30 Panel 5: Comedy
Emine Gulal Sahin – “(Un)Known Story of Hanzo: What Made (Un)Barred Subject of Kemalist Modernization Project So Popular in 1970s?”
Turker Sahin – “Politics of Recep Ivedik 5: Hero of Turkish Periphery Dominates Youth Olympics 2016; or How We Learned Stop Worrying and Enjoy Cheating”
Lucian Tion – “Farce or propaganda? The Shifting Role of Political Satire from Oh What a Lovely War to The Death of Stalin”
Ben Tyrer – “The Sublime Object Revisited: Paranoia, Symmetry and Who Is America?”
11:30 Break
12:00 Panel 6: (Post)Colonialism
Peter Makhlouf – “‘There is no such thing as the East’: The Lacanian Orientations of Edward Said”
Marita Vyrgioti – “On Being Eaten: Frantz Fanon and Racialised Phobias”
Charmaine Dambuza – “Psychoanalysis and Ideology: Analysis of the Novel Nervous Conditions”
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Panel 7: Cinema/Body/Repetition
Seung-hoon Jeong – “Theorizing Community and Network: A Biopolitical Sexuation with Global Cinema”
Defne Tüzün – “A face to Face encounter: prostitute and the Capital”
Selin Celik – “‘Uncanny’ Children of War”
Julija Bonai – “The death drive, compulsion to repeat and nationalism explained from the perspective of desire”
16:30 Close
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