UMBR(a)
Issue #1 (2000)
“On Science and Truth”
UMBR(a): A Journal of the Unconscious is currently seeking articles for
its upcoming spring 2000 issue, “On Science and Truth.” The issue will
address the questions of how psychoanalysis defines science and how it
defines itself in relation to science. In the discourse of “Science and
Truth,” Lacan says, “It is unthinkable that psychoanalysis as a practice
and the Freudian unconscious as a discovery, could have taken on their
roles before the birth of science” (6). This statement provokes
questions not only about science and psychoanalysis, but also about
history. Is the claim Lacan makes a historicist one? Is Lacan
providing a historical account of the origins of psychoanalysis? What
is the status of the unconscious as a “discovery”? Did the unconscious
exist before Freud? If we generally think of science as a discourse
that excludes the unconscious, how can we understand the birth of
science as that event which also made possible the elaboration of the
unconscious? Is psychoanalysis a science, and if not, how and why is
the development of psychoanalysis according to Lacan so definitively
tied to the birth of science? Is truth as conceived of by science the
same as truth in psychoanalysis?
UMBR(a) seeks articles that take up any of these questions or related
questions posed by the intersection of psychoanalysis and science
(including the fields of mathematics, linguistics, technology, and
politics). We are interested in writing that will engage Freud and
Lacan, as well as other figures such as Jean-Claude Milner, Alain Badiou
or Louis Althusser.
Submissions should be 1,500-6,000 words in length, must be submitted on
a 3.5 diskette (MSWord) and in hard copy, and must be received no later
than December 1, 1999. Please send all submissions to:
UMBR(a)
c/o Theresa Giron
The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture
409 Clemens Hall
SUNY-Buffalo, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-4610
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