We are inviting 300 word abstracts for 15-20 minute papers for a panel
entitled "Psychoanalysis and Cultural
Studies: An Impossible Relation?"
to be held at the
Third International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference
June 21-25, 2000
Birmingham, UK
The deadline for abstract submissions is February 5. Abstracts should be
sent to Constantina Papoulias at
c.papoulias@uel.ac.uk
SUMMARY OF SESSION
Psychoanalysis has been a troubling presence in cultural studies.
Initially, its alleged presumption of a universal psychic structuration was
critiqued by a number of cultural studies scholars for whom it is precisely
the distribution of social practices of categorisation that shapes
subjective experience. Then, during the nineties and following the work of
those such as Judith Butler and Homi Bhabha, a certain psychoanalytic
reading again became viable or arguably central for analyses of the social
production of subjectivity. Within this reading the psyche is often
discussed as a paradoxical site: both the effect of practices of subjection
and socialisation and what resists or exceeds such practices. More
recently, other scholars have sought to historicise the notion of the psyche
as a modern ideological system and to trace the processes of the production
and management of this internal space. In this context, this session will
ask: What is the future for psychoanalysis in cultural studies? To what
extent is that future dependent only on the ability of psychoanalysis to
provide a legitimising framework for a politics of resistance? In other
words, has cultural studies done justice to the project of psychoanalysis,
and to the problems that it raises for an analysis of subjectivity? We are
seeking papers that engage these questions either through a discussion of
current trends in cultural studies or through psychoanalytically informed
research.
This session has been approved for the Crossroads in Cultural Studies
conference. Notice of acceptance of individual papers will be conveyed by
February 18, 2000.
Drafts of papers are requested by
April 15, 2000. Pre-registration is required for all session participants:
you will find information on registration and conference details at the
conference website. www.crossroads-conference.org
As session organisers, we will notify participants on the course of action
and format of the session shortly after the February deadline.
Session organisers:
Constantina Papoulias
Department of Cultural Studies
University of East London
Docklands Campus
Royal Albert Way
London E16 2QJ
tel: UK 020 7690-8519
e-mail c.papoulias@uel.ac.uk
Felicity Callard
Department of Geography & Environmental Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218-2686
USA
e-mail felicity.callard@jhu.edu
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