Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere
10th Anniversary Conference
The State Psychoanalysis Is In
Friday 22nd November 1996, 2.00-8 00pm
and Saturday 23rd, 1 0.00-5.30pm
Conference Centre, Duncan House, High Street, Stratford.
University of East London, London E15
Sponsored by Free Associations Journal, The Human Nature Trust,
and the Department of Human Relations. University of East London.
The conference offers a forum for the examination of
psychoanalysis as an element in and of the public sphere.
Papers wlll pursue psychoanalytic thinking across four strands relating to
the public sphere:
- the nature of the individual;
- organisations and political discourse;
- popular culture;
- the culture of the psychoanalytic professions themselves.
Each strand will be followed by commissioned rapporteurs who will feed back
their work into a plenary at the last session. To support this, the
plenaries will involve structured debate rather than being platforms for keynote speakers.
Plenary Speakers: Mike Rustin and Bob Young on
The past, present and future of psychoanalysis and the public sphere
Papers will include:
- David P. Levine, Psychoanalysis and free market liberalism in America
- Gary Winship, Democracy in psychiatric settings - potentiating the role of
citizens juries
- Anthony Elliott, Freud 2000: the future of psychoanalytic theory
- Sue White and John Stancombe, Exploring the space for a post therapeutics
- Phyllis Creme, The use of a (film) object
- David Kennard, Applied Psychoanalysis
- Ivan Ward, 'Boundaries' as fetish
- Anna Vidali, Some metapsychoanalytic thoughts on the analysls of artistic
production
- Larry Hirschhorn, Psychoanalysis and organisational consulting: the moral
dimension
- John Cash, Troubled talks: distorted communication and the politics of
identity in Northern Ireland
- Joanna Ryan, Lesbianism and the psychotherapy profession
- Jerry Flieger, Cyberanalysis in psychospace: why I read Freud in the
information age
Fee: £75 (British pounds Sterling) two days; £45 one day and concessionary.
For further information ring Joan Tremble on London 0181-849-3460
or email tremble@uel.ac.uk