>
>Subject: CFP: Phantom Processions & Runaway 
>Trains: How Narrative Structures are Linked to 
>the Psyche (9/15/06; NEMLA, 3/2/06-3/5/06)
>From: Cara Gargano <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>Northeastern Modern Language Association (NEMLA5 Conference
>March 2-5, 2006
>Philadelphia, PA.
>
>Phantom Processions and Runaway Trains: How Narrative Structures are Linked
>to Models of the Psyche
>
>
>The metaphor of a „train of thought¾ is an old and accepted one. with sanity
>as the ability to maintain the train of rational causation, and madness, the
>breakdown of that train.
>David Hume compares the mind to a theatre, and suggests that thoughts are a
>series of phantom performers who pass in procession on the stage of the
>mind. Like Hume, Freud sees the psyche as a space; in the ¾topographical
>model¾ of the mind the subject refuses to allow certain unconscious ideas to
>enter the space of the conscious mind. Lacan writes that the mind is
>structured like a language, which must be interpreted, or „read¾. All of
>these models of the psyche invite and support a different notion of the
>narrative and of the way we understand the continuity of a life, either
>fictional or real.
>
>
>This panel will explore connections between narrative structures and
>psychological models of the self and/or mind. We use the notion of narrative
>in the broadest sense, including, but not limited to, dance, film, fiction,
>poetry, and essay. We seek papers that use interdisciplinary approaches
>linking performance, narrative, and psychological paradigms.
>
>  Possible topics include:
>1. Developments in Freudian depth psychology and modernist and/or
>postmodernist narrative experiments
>2. Lacanian structuralist models of the mind and narrative projects
>3. Association psychology, the train of thought, and sequential narrative
>4. Historical and cultural developments linking psychology and narrative
>
>
>200 word abstracts by September 15, 2005 to Cara Gargano, Chair, Department
>of Theatre, Film and Dance, CW Post Campus, Long Island University, 720
>Northern Blvd, Brookville, NY 11548 or by email at [log in to unmask]

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