CFP: Psychoanalysis, Community and 20th Century American Literature (7/1/05; APSC, 11/4/05-11/6/05)

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Proposal for Panel
PSYCHOANALYSIS, COMMUNITY, AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE

For The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society
Annual Conference on PSYCHOANALYSIS AND COMMUNITY

November 4-6, 2005 at Rutgers University

Plenary Speakers: Willy Apollon and Eric Santner

Douglas Dowland, The University of Iowa, Panel Chair

What foundational psychoanalytic tensions are wrought out in the
representation of community in literature? This panel seeks examples of
how psychoanalytic theory and practice illuminates representations of
communities in modern and contemporary American literature. Examples from
all genres of literature, including canonical and non-canonical texts, will
be considered. A variety of approaches, including orthodox and unorthodox
psychoanalytic practices, are appreciated.

Paper proposals should consider how tensions in communities are
historically and politically influenced and how these tensions may be
mitigated by the history and politics of psychoanalysis as practiced
concurrently in America. In other words, how does "psychoanalysis"
redefine "community" and how does "community" demand provide a necessary
contour of psychoanalytic practice?

Papers of a meta-commentary nature will also be considered, including how
characters can separated from the community of the text to be analyzed
discretely, and issues in the creation of a community in a text that may or
may not correspond to an actual community.

Ultimately, all paper proposals should focus in on the close reading of a
text to yield psychoanalytic insight about communities as represented in
the (potential) limitations of both literary and psychoanalytic texts.

Paper proposals should be up to 500 words and sent as an e-mail attachment
to <douglas-dowland_at_uiowa.edu> by July 1, 2005. Please include a current
C.V. with the proposal.

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