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>Culture and the Unconscious: Psychoanalysts, Artists and Academics in
>Dialogue
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>Conference to be held on July 11th and 12th 2003, at School of Oriental
>and African Studies, London WC1.
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>Jointly organised by the British Psychoanalytical Society, the Tavistock
>Clinic and the University of East London
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>Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Prof. Slavoj Zizek
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>Outline of Conference
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>Psychoanalysis has always wandered beyond the consulting room. Alongside
>clinical texts, Freud and his followers wrote speculatively on art and
>artists, politics, war and civilisation, and this cultural engagement has
>been fully sustained by later analytic generations.  The creative arts and
>literature have been widely admired by psychoanalysts, many of whom believe
>that creative artists have conveyed  the deepest of all understandings of
>unconscious mental life. More recently, psychoanalysis in many hues has
>permeated cultural criticism and the universities, influencing studies of
>film, television, the visual arts, biography, fiction, theatre and poetry,
>and other art forms.  Although psychoanalysts and academics are often drawn
>to the same painting, film or play, their approaches commonly use
>psychoanalysis differently and address different audiences.
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>Until now, conversations between these three worlds of psychoanalysis, the
>academy, and the creative arts, have rarely taken place. Such conversations
>will form the basis of Culture and the Unconscious, an international
>interdisciplinary conference that will bring together psychoanalysts and
>psychotherapists, artists and academics to discuss such fields as film and
>television, literature, drama and poetry, the visual arts, and biography.
>Through these conversations Culture and the Unconscious will bring together
>the worlds of psychoanalysis, academia, and the creative arts. It will
>produce a lively, illuminating and thought-provoking event that should be of
>interest to all those interested in psychoanalysis and culture.
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>Conference Themes Will Include:
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>=B7        Creativity and the artist
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>=B7        Culture and emotion
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>=B7        Culture as resistance
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>=B7        Psychoanalytic aesthetics
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>=B7        Genres and the unconscious
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>=B7        Morality and art.
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>Call for Papers and Contributions
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>Offers of papers or other contributions for the above Conference are invited.
>These may be from psychoanalysts or psychoanalytic psychotherapists,
>academics, critics or journalists, or creative artists. They may also be for
>panels involving co-operation between any of these participants.
>Contributions may be focused on a particular genre of work (for example film
>or poetry), a particular artist or writer, or a particular psychoanalytic
>perspective.   Because the purpose of the conference is to facilitate
>dialogue between these different spheres of work, the organisers will be
>particularly pleased to receive proposals for collaborative or joint sessions
>between psychoanalysts, academics and artists. We will also however be very
>glad to receive offers of individual conference papers.
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>The Conference will have both plenary  sessions, with speakers drawn from the
>different contributing fields, and smaller panel sessions. The organisers
>will discuss with those offering contributions what would be the most
>appropriate setting for the presentation and discussion of their work.
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>Offers should be made to the Organising Committee at the email or postal
>address given below, by November 30 2002. They should take the form of an
>abstract of not more than 500 words.
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>Conference Organising Committee
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>Caroline Bainbridge, Christine Clegg, Marilyn Lawrence, Susannah Radstone,
>Michael Rustin, Candida Yates.
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>Offers of papers to Prof Michael Rustin, School of Social Sciences,
>University of East London, Barking Campus, Dagenham RM8 2AS
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>The organisers would also like to draw your attention to a further conferece
>which may be of interest:
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>The 'Freudian Century'?  The Impact of Psycho-Analysis on Intellectual Life
>in Britain
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>May 16-17  2003
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>The British Psycho-Analytical Society, London
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>Contributors will include  Sally Alexander, Steve Connor, John Forrester
>Nadia Fusini, Fred Halliday, Michael Holroyd, Roger Kennedy  Jonathan Lear,
>Juliet Mitchell, Laura Mulvey, Daniel Pick, Suzanne Raitt, Charles Stewart.
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>The conference will explore the history of the relationship between
>psycho-analysis, culture and the human sciences in twentieth-century Britain.
>Speakers will examine the reception of 'the unconscious'  in  disciplines
>ranging from Anthropology   to Film Studies, Biography to Medicine, History
>to Literary Criticism, Philosophy to Psychiatry.
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>Participants will also be able to visit a specially mounted display of
>documents, rare  images, tapes and other artefacts relating to the history of
>psychoanalysis in Britain. The exhibition will be introduced by  Ken
>Robinson, on behalf of the  BPAS Archives Committee.
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>For further details please contact Linda Carter Jackson at the BPAS, 112A -
>114 Shirland Road London  W9 2EQ.  Tel. 0207 563 5010   e-mail
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>Full Price =A3100
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>Concessions (Students, Unwaged) =A350
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>Ticket includes Cost of Refreshments and Conference Reception
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>Dr Caroline Bainbridge
>Senior Lecturer, Psychosocial Studies
>School of Social Sciences
>University of East London
>Longbridge Road
>Dagenham, Essex RM8 2AS
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>Tel: 00 44 20 8223 2579
>Fax: 00 44 20 8223 2808
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