CALL FOR PAPERS
PSYCHOANALYSIS & SOCIAL CHANGE
Second Annual Conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society
Special Sessions on Psychoanalysis & Race
George Washington University
November 7-10, 1996
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Featured Speakers: Willy Apollon, Daniel Boyarin, Joan Copjec, Juliet
Flower MacCannell, Renata Salecl, Claudia Tate, Victor Wolfenstein,
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, and others.
One-page abstracts (no papers) by August 15 to:
Mark Bracher,
English Department,
Kent State University,
Kent,
OH 44242.
Fax: (330) 672-3152.
Email:
mbracher@kentvm.kent.edu
The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society (APCS)
is an
international and interdisciplinary non-profit organization incorporated in
1994 for the purpose of promoting the development of new, more socially
beneficial applications of psychoanalysis to important social and cultural
issues. To this end, APCS holds an annual conference, sponsors various
other events and activities, and publishes JPCS: Journal for the
Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society. JPCS publishes articles, reviews,
field notes, international notes, and letters to the editor that employ
psychoanalysis to address the psychological roots or consequences of a
significant social or cultural phenomenon in such a way as to enhance the
possibilities for social change.
JPCS: Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society
is a publication
of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society (APCS) and
is published twice a year by Critical Press, the publishing arm of The Gunk
Foundation. Submissions are subject to peer review. The final decision to
publish rests with the Editor. JPCS invites submissions of the following
types:
Articles (optimum length: under 7,500 words) that employ psychoanalytic
theories, concepts, or perspectives to address psychological roots or
consequences of significant social or cultural phenomena in such a way as
to promote beneficial social change. Articles may also explore divergent
and conflicting psychoanalytic perspectives on culture and society or offer
critiques of particular psychoanalytic schools, assumptions, strategies, or
concepts as they pertain to social or cultural issues. JPCS does not
publish articles in which psychoanalytic theory or cultural phenomena are
discussed apart from social issues.
Field Notes (optimum length: 1,000-2,000 words) that offer psychoanalytic
assessments of socially significant issues or events, describe socially
significant ways in which psychoanalysis is being used in various fields or
disciplines, or provide summaries of socially significant psychoanalytic
work in progress or possibilities for research.
International Notes (optimum length: 1,000-2,000 words) that offer
psychoanalytic assessments of significant social, political, or cultural
phenomena, issues, or events in a particular nation or region of the world.
Book Reviews (optimum length: under 2,000 words) that provide a summary and
a critical assessment of psychoanalytic books having social significance.
Letters to the Editor (optimum length: under 1,000 words) that raise
significant questions or offer significant insights regarding specific
material published in JPCS or the general JPCS agenda.
Manuscript form, style, and documentation for all submissions should follow
The MLA Style Manual. There should be no bibliographic notes; all
references should be listed alphabetically in a Works Cited section at the
end of the article and be cited parenthetically in the text by author (plus
short title, when necessary) and page number. Articles should be submitted
in duplicate. A diskette must be provided of all material accepted for
publication.
Correspondence regarding submissions other than book reviews should be
addressed to the editor. Correspondence regarding book reviews, as well as
review copies of books, should be addressed to the review editors.
The first issue of JPCS: JOURNAL FOR THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF CULTURE &
SOCIETY, will be published at the end of May. The journal, which will
appear twice a year, is the publication of the Association for the
Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society (APCS), an international and
interdisciplinary non-profit organization devoted to developing and
promoting the use of psychoanalysisfor beneficial social change. The first
issue will include the following material:
ARTICLES:
- "Re-visioning 'Lacanian' Social Criticism: The Law and Its Obscene Double,"
by Slavoj Zizek
- "The Post-Colonial Unconscious, or The White Man's Thing,"
by Juliet Flower MacCannell
- "Post-Colonialism and Psychoanalysis: The Example of Haiti,"
by Willy Apollon
- "Freud and His 'Negro': Psychoanalysis as Ally and Enemy of African Americans,"
by Claudia Tate
- "Working Through Racism: Confronting the Strangely Familiar,"
by Patricia Elliot
- "Psychoanalysis and Social Identity, or The Pyrrhic Victory of Hysteria,"
by Judith Feher Gurewich
- "Psychoanalytic-Marxism in a Time of Neo-Fascism,"
by Victor Wolfenstein
- "Talking with Jesse Helms: The Relation of Drives to Discourse,"
by Marshall W. Alcorn, Jr.
- "Beyond the Social Principle: Psychoanalysis and Radical Democracy,"
by Christopher Lane
- "Identity and Memory: The Trauma of Ceausescu's Disneyland,"
by Renata Salecl
- "Psychoanalytic Diary Writing and the Transformation of Self and Society,"
by Jeffrey Berman
- FIELD NOTES (1,000-2,000 word psychoanalytic assessments) on Law,
Management, Writing Instruction, and Popular Culture;
- INTERNATIONAL NOTES on Mexico's Self-Division, Brazilian Musical Libido,
and Finnish Unemployment;
- REVIEWS:
- Renata Salecl, The Spoils of Freedom (by Elizabeth Wright);
- Jeffrey Berman, Diaries to An English Professor (by Sander Gilman);
- Joan Copjec, Read My Desire (by Tim Dean);
- Bruce Fink, The Lacanian Subject (by Slavoj Zizek);
- Teresa Brennan, History After Lacan (by Robert Paul Resch).
Future Issues will feature special sections devoted to
the work of Homi Bhabha and Slavoj Zizek, for which submissions are invited.
EDITOR:
Mark Bracher,
English Department,
Kent State University,
Kent,
OH 44242.
Phone: (330) 672-2665
Fax: (330) 672-3152.
Email:
mbracher@kentvm.kent.edu
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Parveen Adams, Marshall W. Alcorn, Jr., Willie
Apollon, Jeffrey Berman, Homi Bhabha, Joan Copjec, Terry Eagleton, Fredric
Jameson, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Renata Salecl, Robert Samuels, Claudia
Tate, Victor Wolfenstein, Jean Wyatt, Slavoj Zizek.
BOOK REVIEW EDITORS: Kenneth Reinhard & Julia Reinhard Lupton, 28 Virgil
Court, Irvine, CA 92715; Phone: (714) 854-5611;
jrlupton@uci.edu
Membership in APCS includesa reduction in the annual conference
registration fee and subscription to JPCS: Journal for the Psychoanalysis
of Culture & Society, published twice a year.
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1996 Individual Membership Dues: ____ US $25
With airmail delivery of JPCS: ____ US $35
1996 Institutional Subscription to JPCS: ____US $40
With airmail delivery of JPCS: ____US $50
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Return to:
Marshall W. Alcorn, Jr.,
Executive Director, APCS
c/o Department of English
George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
Fax: 202-994-7915
Email:
alcornma@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
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