UPDATE: Culture and the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis, Art, and Academia (UK) (3/1/03; 7/11/03-7/12/03)

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Dr Caroline Bainbridge
Senior Lecturer, Psychosocial Studies
University of East London
Longbridge Road
Dagenham, Essex RM8 2AS
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Culture and the Unconscious: Psychoanalysts, Artists and Academics in
Dialogue
July 11th and 12th 2003
School of Oriental and African Studies, London WC1
Jointly organised by the British Psychoanalytic Society, the Tavistock Clin=
ic
and the University of East London
Confirmed Keynote Speakers Include:
Prof. Slavoj Zizek, internationally renowned cultural critic
Fiona Shaw, actor, writer and theatre director
Eva Hoffman, author of Lost in Translation
Nicholas Wright, award-winning playwright - Van Gogh in Brixton
Helen Taylor Robinson, psychoanalyst
David Bell, psychoanalyst
Outline of Conference
Psychoanalysis has always wandered beyond the consulting room. Alongside
clinical texts, Freud and his followers wrote speculatively on art and
artists, politics, war and civilisation, and this cultural engagement has
been fully sustained by later analytic generations.  The creative arts and
literature have been widely admired by psychoanalysts, many of whom believe
that creative artists have conveyed the deepest of all understandings of
unconscious mental life.  More recently, psychoanalysis in many hues has
permeated cultural criticism and the universities, influencing studies of
film, television, the visual arts, biography, fiction, theatre and poetry,
and other art forms.  Although psychoanalysts and academics are often drawn
to the same painting, film or play, their approaches commonly use
psychoanalysis differently and address different audiences.
Until now, conversations between these three worlds of psychoanalysis, the
academy, and the creative arts have rarely taken place.  Such conversations
will form the basis of Culture and the Unconscious, an international
interdisciplinary conference that will bring together psychoanalysts and
psychotherapists, artists and academics to discuss such fields as film and
television, literature, drama and poetry, the visual arts, and biography.
Through these conversations, Culture and the Unconscious will bring together
the worlds of psychoanalysis, academia, and the creative arts.  It will
produce a lively, illuminating and thought-provoking event that should be of
interest to all those interested in psychoanalysis and culture.
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
The following themes are of particular interest:
=B7 Affect and Culture
=B7 The difference between psychoanalytic and academic approaches to culture
=B7 Creativity and the Unconscious
=B7 The tendency of psychoanalysis to moralise on 'goodness' or 'taste' in
relation to culture.
Our first call for papers produced a large number of papers concerned with
film.  In light of this, the organising committee would like to call for
further proposals dealing with other cultural forms.  Proposals should be
submitted to the organising committee by e-mailing
m.j.rustin_at_uel.ac.uk before the closing date (1st March 2003).
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Please complete the attached form and return it with payment and, where
necessary, proof of concessionary status to:
Culture and the Unconscious Conference
c/o Ms Paula Taylor
Institute of Psychoanalysis
112a Shirland Rd
London W9 2EQ
UK.
Early Bird Rates (for registration before 1st May 2003)
Full Conference:
Standard Rate:                      =A3110
Concessionary Rate:                             =A355
One Day:
Standard Rate:                      =A360
Concessionary Rate:                             =A330
Late Registration Rates (for registration after 1st May 2003)
Full Conference:
Standard Rate:                      =A3125
Concessionary Rate:                             =A360
One Day:
Standard Rate:                      =A365
Concessionary Rate:                             =A335
Please Note: Proof of concessionary status must be provided with registration
details.
CULTURE AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
Name:
Address:
& postcode
E-mail:
Telephone:
Fax:
Please indicate the rate at which you wish to register:
Early Bird Rates (must be booked and paid in full before 1st May 2003)
Full Conference Standard Rate:                     =A3110
Full Conference Concessionary Rate*:         =A355
One Day Standard Rate:                                   =A360
One Day Concessionary Rate*:                       =A330
Late Booking Rates
Full Conference Standard Rate:                     =A3125
Full Conference Concessionary Rate*:         =A360
One Day Standard Rate:                                   =A365
One Day Concessionary Rate*:                       =A335
*Please include proof of status
Please delete as appropriate:              I am / am not giving a paper at
the conference.
If you are giving a paper at the conference, please indicate the title of
your paper and any audio-visual requirements that you may have below.
The organisers are unable to provide accommodation.  However, a detailed list
of hotels in central London is available online.  
Tea, Coffee and Refreshments will be provided on both days.
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