CFP - The Analytic Scene: Translations and Transferences

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Analytic Scene: Translations and Transferences
Keynote address from Dr. Luke Thurston, University of Wales,  Aberystwyth

A one-day graduate student/invited speaker conference sponsored by the Psychoanalysis and Sexuality Research Unit of the Center for Cultural Studies

UC Santa Cruz
May 19, 2007
Humanities 1, Room 210


“The Analytic Scene: Translations and Transferences” will bring together graduate student papers from various disciplines that address key psychoanalytic concepts in the context of an interdisciplinary approach. We are nterested in exploring the translation of the clinical “scene” into different theoretical registers in order to investigate the space of analysis and challenge its implicit borders.  This conference will question the efficacy of psychoanalysis as it is “applied to” other disciplines, a mode in which critical issues from each discourse seem to get lost in the 
application.  Our goal is to bring together papers that test diverse approaches to psychoanalytic interdisciplinarity by asking a series of central questions.  What is the specificity of psychoanalytic knowledge and its method?  What is the relationship of psychoanalysis to other disciplines and to contemporary deployments of categories such as race, 
class, and power?

Keynote Speaker: Dr Luke Thurston lectures in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. He is the author of James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis (2004) and the editor of Re-inventing the Symptom: Essays on the Final Lacan (2002). He has translated works by André Green, Jean Laplanche and Roberto Harari, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal for Lacanian Studies. His current project is a study of bilingualism and ego-multiplication in Beckett and Pessoa.

Please submit a title and abstract by e-mail (as Microsoft Word .doc or Rich Text Format attachments) by April 9 to analyticscenes@gmail.com. 

Please include the word “submission” somewhere in the subject line. Include your name, affiliation, telephone number, and a brief blurb about yourself/your work for the purposes of publicity. Papers will be 15 minutes in length (5-7 pages) and due two weeks prior to the conference for review and comment by the organizers.

Please direct inquiries to: Rob Trumbull (rtrumbul@ucsc.edu) or Christina Stevenson (clsteven@ucsc.edu).