Conference: Space in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis in Space
12-13 March 2022 (Zoom)
Organizers:: Center for Psychoanalytic Thought at the Institute of Philosophy of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
The theory-and-practice of Psychoanalysis and the very notion of Space seem to be entangled in most complex ways. On the one hand, ever since Freud psychoanalytic theory abounds with spatial models of the self. On the other hand, psychoanalysis has been always most sensitive to the libidinal and affective aspects of our bodily existence within the lived space. This dual perspective resulted in a most fascinating sequence of notions, theories and concepts: the very idea of psychic topography, the interplay between introjection and projection, various takes on separation and emptiness, the vision of the potential space, the dialectics of the container and the contained, the notion of extimity and many others. Our conference, which brings together scholars from a variety of fields, is to explore the potential of these and other notions for our thinking about the clinical dimension of psychoanalysis, as well as for the philosophical reflection on human subjectivity, architecture, geography, literature and economy.
Zoom LINKS:
LINK DAY 1: Saturday, 12 March 2022
Meeting ID: 870 0645 5738
passcode: 935201
LINK DAY 2: Sunday, 13 March 2022
Meeting ID: 830 0179 9547
passcode: 152485
DAY 1: Saturday, 12 March 2022
10.01-10.15 Adam Lipszyc, Opening Remarks
Panel 1: The Space of the Clinic
10.15.10.45 Cosimo Schinaia, The Space of the Consulting Room
discussion
11.00-11.30 Steven Jaron, Liminal Experiencing in the Psychoanalytic Field
discussion
11.45-12:15 Mira Marcinów, Hysteria in the space of Polish nineteenth century mental hospital
discussion
12:30-14:30 LUNCH BREAK
Panel 2: The Space of the Body
14:30-15:00 Steve Pile, Transference and the Spacing of the Body
discussion
15:15-15:45 Thomas Dojan, Erogenous Zones as Libidinal Space
discussion
16:00-16:30 Santiago Sourigues, The Dark Space of the Sleeping Body: the Nocturnal Space of Dreams and the Unconscious
discussion
DAY 2: Sunday, 13 March 2022
Panel 3: The Space of the Subject
10.00-10.30 Adam Lipszyc, ‘Das Unbehagen im Raum’: Closed Selves, Misplaced Cuts and the Vertigo of the Open
discussion
10.45-11.15 Andrzej Leder, Subject as a space and as a position
discussion
11.30-12.00 Anna Secor, Spacetimeunconscious: the unconscious as ethical dimension in the interplay of space, time, and matter
discussion
12.15-14.00 LUNCH BREAK
Panel 4: Psychoarchitecture, Psychotopography, Psychomarket
14.00-14.30 Gabriela Świtek, Spatial Disorientaton: Labyrinth, Lived Space and Architecture
discussion
14.45-15.15 Tomasz Drzazgowski, Building a bridge between Aristotle and Heidegger: the contribution of psychoanalysis to understanding what places are and how they arise
discussion
15.30-15.45 COFFEE BREAK
15.45-16.15 Antoni Zając, Towards Literary Psychotopographies. Sylleptic Subject, the Architecture of Distorted Memory and Spatial Imagination
discussion
16.30-17.00 Marta Olesik, Spacing History and the Schizo-Analysis of the Market
discussion
17.15-17.29 Adam Lipszyc, Closing Remarks