CFP: Psychoanalysis and the Strategies of Resistance (10/15/04; ACLA, 3/11/05-3/13/05)

American Comparative Literature Association 2005 Annual Meeting
The Pennsylvania State University, March 11 - 13, 2005
Conference Theme: Imperialisms--Temporal, Spatial, Formal

CALL FOR PAPERS
for
the ACLA Seminar/Panel

            PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE

Organizers: Chad Loewen-Schmidt, Rutgers University
                    Email: lionsmith_at_optonline.net and
                    Sanja Bahun-Radunovic, Rutgers University
                    Email: bahunic_at_rci.rutgers.edu

     From the psychoanalytic perspective, all cultural constructions are
coercive and inextricably bound to the dynamic of resistance. This is true
not only because they are repressive, but because their systems, through
numerous inter- and intra-subjective processes, circulate and spread,
gaining power through endorsement. However, all cultural constructions,
including literature and the arts, arise in resistance to and as an
expression of the threat of the potentially violent and sexual desires of
the individual.
     This seminar invites papers on the different strategies of resistance
viewed through the psychoanalytic lenses of Freud, Lacan, Fromm, Klein,
Kristeva, Fanon, and others. We understand the term “resistance” in the
broadest sense as the interlacing of psychological, socio-political, and
creative processes. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

--psychoanalytic theory as the theory of resistance
--inter-theoretical denials and dialogues; resistance to psychoanalysis
--literature as resistance
--the aesthetics of resistance
--literary/artistic form as resistance: generic mixtures, inflections,
experimentation
--silence as resistance: literary manifestations and theoretical
elaborations
--laughter/jokes as resistance
--resistance and the epistemology of denial
--fathers and sons: literature and art of resistance and its ambivalent
status in psychoanalytic theory
--transference resistance: resistance and the cultural Other
--repetition compulsion and narrative theory
--female writing as resistance

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Paper proposals (maximum 200 words) for 15-20 minute papers should be sent
directly to the ACLA website, http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/ACLA/.
The deadline for submission is October 15, 2004. For questions, please
contact the seminar organizers: Chad Loewen-Schmidt
(lionsmith_at_optonline.net) or Sanja Bahun-Radunovic
(bahunic_at_rci.rutgers.edu). Further information on the conference may be
found at the ACLA homepage, www.acla.org.

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