SPRING SYMPOSIUM IN THE PORTUGUESE PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY
MAY 18TH– 20TH 2018
Avenida da República 97, 50 , 1050-190, Lisboa
FRIDAY 18th
09.00-09.30 Opening address with presentation round
09.30-10.20 TERESA SANTOS NEVES/ CARLOS FERRAZ – When Shock is not Shocking: Psychodynamcis Underlying the Acceptance of Austerity
10.30-11.20 LENE AUESTAD – Austerity, Time and the Common World
11.30-12.20 DUARTE ROLO – Psychoanalysis and Social Suffering: From Psychologisation to Politisation
12.30-13.20 RENÉE DANZIGER – We’re All in This Together: The Myth of Austerity
13.20-15.00 Lunch
15.00-15.50 MARGARITA PALACIOS – Becoming the People: A Critique to Populist Aesthetics of Visibility
16.00-16.50 ZELJKA MATIJAŠEVIĆ – The Reduction of Melancholy to Depression: What is Being Lost?
17.00-17.50 NAYLA DEBS – Clinical Practice in Neoliberal Times: Individual Distress, Global Precariousness and the Need to Define New Forms of Materialism
18.00-18.50 RAFAEL DAUD – Anorexia as Austerity’s Other Side of the Coin
SATURDAY 19th
09.00-09.50 SAMIR GANDESHA – The Authoritarian Personality Reconsidered
10.00-10.50 JAMIE STEELE – Can Psychoanalysis save us from this Pain? Reflections on Moving Through a Sociology of Sadistic Privilege
11.00-11.50 PHILIP HEWITT – Austerity as a Governing Mental State
12.00-12.50 SZYMON WRÓBEL – Productivity of Poverty. Managing Poverty in Philosophy from Benjamin and Heidegger to Agamben, Negri and Hardt
12.50-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.20 EFI KOUTANTOU – Loss and Trauma during the Greek Crisis: A Collapse of an Ideal?
15.30-16.20 MARINA PRENTOULIS – Violent Encounters: ‘Acting Out’ before redrawing the Political Froniers
16.30-17.20 ANDREAS MURRAY – Political Extremism and Religious Terror
17.30-18.20 JENYU PENG – Utopian Imagination as a Way of Revolt against Realpolitik. Reflections upon the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan
(Joint dinner, covered by the organizers, in the evening)
SUNDAY 20th
10.00-10.50 EVELINE LIST – Austerity: Economic Theory, Mainstream Ideology and Psycho-Social Reality
11.00-11.50 LINDEN WEST – Austerity and Austere Psychoanalysis? Challenging Boundaries between Psychoanalysis, Zombie Economics and a New Politics
12.00-12.50 EDWARD WEISBAND – Austerity, Thy Name be Narcissus, Thy Face be Three Vanities: Digital Selfie Narcissism, Populist Identitarian Narcissism, and Avaricious Authoritarian Narcissism
12.50-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.20 SEBASTIÃO VIOLA – When Neoliberalism becomes too Real: Trump and the Use of Psy Diagnosis as an Ideological Device
15.30-16.20 Closing discussion, feedback about the conference
About the presenters
LENE AUESTAD, PhD, prev. Research Fellow, Philosophy, University of Oslo, Norway/UK
RENÉE DANZIGER, D. Phil., Psychoanalyst, Fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society
RAFAEL DAUD, Psychoanalyst, Master of Social Psychology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Fórum do CAmpo Lacaniano, São Paulo
NAYLA DEBS, PhD candidate, Psychoanalytic studies, Paris-Diderot University/clinical psychologist, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
CARLOS FERRAZ, Psychoanalyst, Portuguese Psychoanalytic Society
SAMIR GANDESHA, Associate Professor, Department of the Humanities, Director, Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University, Canada
PHILIP HEWITT, Psychotherapist, British Psychotherapy Foundation, UK
EFI KOUTANTOU, PhD Candidate, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies Department, University of Essex, UK
EVELINE LIST, University Professor, History department, Psychoanalyst/ training analyst (IPA), Vienna, Austria
ZELJKA MATIJAŠEVIĆ, Professor, Comparative Literature, Head of the Comparative Literature Department, University of Zagreb, Croatia
TERESA SANTOS NEVES, PhD, Psychoanalyst, Portuguese Psychoanalytic Society
ANDREAS MURRAY, Psychoanalyst, Swedish Psychoanalytical Society
MARGARITA PALACIOS, Senior Lecturer, Psychosociial Studies, Birkbeck University of London, UK
JENYU PENG, Institute of Ethnology, Academica Sinica, Taiwan
MARINA PRENTOULIS, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Media, University of East Anglia, UK
DUARTE ROLO, Université Paris Descartes, France
JAMIE STEELE, Licenced Marriage and Family Therapist, Civil and Domestic Mediator, Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute
SEBASTIÃO VIOLA, Dr. (medical), training at CFAR, Cardiff, UK
EDWARD WEISBAND, Dr Diggs Endowed Chair Professor, Dep. of Political Science, Virginia Tech, USA
LINDEN WEST, Professor, Faculty of Education, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
SZYMON WRÓBEL, Professor of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences and Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, Poland
The conference lasts for three full days, from about 9 am until about 6 pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The time frame for each paper is 30 min for the presentation itself + 20 min for discussion, 50 min in total, and with a 10 min break in between each paper. This is an interdisciplinary conference. Perspectives from different psychoanalytic schools will be most welcome. We promote discussion among the presenters and participants; the symposium series creates a space where representatives of different perspectives come together, engage with one another’s contributions and participate in a community of thought. Therefore, attendance of the whole symposium is obligatory. Due to the nature of the forum audio recording is not permitted. This is a relatively small symposium where active participation is encouraged and an enjoyable social atmosphere is sought. A participation fee, which includes a shared dinner with wine, of € 299 before March 1st 2018 – € 377 between March 1st 2018 and April 10th 2018 – € 455 after April 10th, is to be paid before the symposium. Fees must be paid via Picatic. (Transaction fees are not included in the price).
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer travel grants or other forms of financial assistance for this event, though we will be able to assist you in finding affordable accommodation after February 1st... Please contact us if you wish to make a donation towards the conference. We thank all donors in advance! We would like to thank the Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society.