CFP: Psychoanalysis in Our Time 2018 – Psychoanalysis, Nationalism and Ideology
Now in its fifth year – and following the great success of sessions across Europe – the Psychoanalysis in Our Time research network is delighted to announce the call for papers for our next event, which will take place in association with the University of Gdansk, Poland from 5th to 7th October 2018. The topic for this symposium will be “Psychoanalysis, Nationalism and Ideology”.
We are very pleased to be able to say that the internationally acclaimed philosopher of the Slovenian School, Prof. Alenka Zupančič will be our keynote for this event. Renowned film scholar, Prof. Thomas Elsaesser will also be present to launch his new book and to give a talk on ideology and the abject in cinema.
ossible topics could include (but are not limited to):
- A move to the right? Current trends in Poland and in the world vis-à-vis the notion of interpellation
- Cinema, ideology, spectatorship – new trends in film theory
- Fake news, social media and ideology
- Television drama, ideology and interpellation
- Freud and group psychology: ego, libido and the “mass”
- Psychoanalysis and fascism (e.g. Wilhelm Reich – The Mass Psychology of Fascism)
- Freudo-Marxism and the Frankfurt School (Marcuse, Fromm)
- Lacan and Marx / “How Marx invented the symptom”
- The Slovenian School and contemporary ideology critique (Žižek, Dolar, Zupančič)
- Lacan and the political Left/the Essex School (Laclau and Mouffe, Stavrakakis, Glynos)
- Psychoanalysis and Historical Materialism (Raymond Williams, Frederic Jameson)
- Marxism, Maoism and psychoanalysis in Paris (Althusser, Badiou)
- Ideology, interpassivity and belief (Robert Pfaller)
- Psychoanalysis and Neoliberalism (Todd McGowan, Paul Verhaeghe, Mark Fisher)
- Colonialism, anti-colonialism and ideology through psychoanalysis (Fanon, Octave Mannoni)
- Intersectionality and ideology in cinema and culture – new ideas
- Ideological critique of psychoanalysis (Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari)