Organisation : Isabelle Alfandary

Presentation:

The Summer Institute of Psychoanalysis “Psychoanalysis AND,” a joint venture of Northwestern University and the Sorbonne Nouvelle that was inaugurated in 2017, develops topics at the intersection of psychoanalysis and the human sciences. We are pleased to announce that the 2020 session takes place from June 22 through June 27 in Paris and focuses on the topic of “Psychoanalysis and Politics.” Taught in English, the Institute proposes an intensive week of study for doctoral and postdoctoral students in the humanities from Europe, Israel, Latin America, and USA.

The topic chosen for this year allows participants to interrogate anew the relationship between the discovery of the unconscious and the social and political field. Although centered on the subject, psychoanalysis understood as both theory and practice offers intuitions and ideas that have proven to be consequential beyond the individual. Which is the specific contribution of psychoanalysis to our understanding of the social contract? In what ways is the political field traversed by affects and movements that become more intelligible thanks to psychoanalysis?

This event is adressed to doctoral and postdoctoral students.

PROGRAMME :

June 27

• 9-11: presentation
• 11:15-13:15: Junior seminar

June 28

• 9-11: Senior seminar 1 (Isabelle Alfandary and Alessia Ricciardi)
• 11:15-13:15: Junior seminar
• 15h30-17h30: Plenary Diana Kamienny: “Transference of concepts from psychoanalysis to politics : Ernesto Laclau and Judith Butler”

June 29

• 9-11: Senior seminar 2 (Axel Nesme)
• 11:15-13:15: Junior seminar
• 15h30-17h30: Plenary Prof. Vladimir Safatle: “An insurrectional unconscious: negativity and disruption in Lacanian psychoanalysis”

June 30

• 9-11: Senior seminar 1 (Alessia Ricciardi, Isabelle Alfandary)
• 11:15-13:15: Junior seminar
• 15h30-17h30: Plenary Monique David-Ménard: “Psychoanalysis, anthropology and politics”