NATIONALISM AND THE BODY POLITIC
PROGRAMME, WINTER SYMPOSIUM IN OSLO 25th to 27th of MARCH 2011
Venue: Norwegian Psychoanalytical Society, Fr. Nansenv. 17, 0369 Oslo
FRIDAY 25th
09.00-09.30 Opening address by Lene Auestad
Chair: Sølvi Kristiansen
09.30-10.20 PAUL HOGGETT/LITA CROCIANI WINDLAND – Politics, Grief and Grievance
10.30-11.20 LENE AUESTAD – Likeness and Idealization
11.30-12.20 JONATHAN DAVIDOFF – The Mexican: Phantasy, Enactment and Defence
12.20-14.00 Lunch
Chair: Helgard Mahrdt
14.00-14.50 EARL HOPPER – Traumatised Social Systems and the Basic Assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I:A/M
15.00-15.50 SVEIN TJELTA – The Making of the Iso-Type
16.00-16.50 FERENC EROS – Budapest, the Capital of Hungarians. Rhetoric, Images and Symbols of the Hungarian Extreme Right
(Joint dinner, covered by the organizers, in the evening)
SATURDAY 26th
Chair: Berit Reisel
09.00-09.50 RIVKA WARSHAWSKY – We Refugees: “If you will it, it is No Dream”
10.00-10.50 STEPHEN WILMER – Subversive Over-identification; or, How to Address the Obscene Superego of Nationalism
11.00-11.50 MARGARITA PALACIOS – Between Fantasy and Melancholia: Lack, Otherness and Violence
12.00-12.50 RAIVO VETIK – Discursive Reproduction of the Estonian-Russian Conflict
12.50-14.30 Lunch
Chair: Jane Frances
14.30-15.20 DAVID MILLAR – Hate and the Art of Politics. Why Love Never Gets the Vote
15.30-16.20 RONALD DOCTOR – The History of Murder and the Murder of History
16.30-17.20 MARTYN HOUSDEN – Erich Fromm on Politics and the Nation
17.30-18.20 AUDRONE ZUKAUSKAITE – Between Schizophrenia and Paranoia, or Revolutionary and Fascist Drives in the Political
(Joint dinner, covered by the organizers, in the evening)
SUNDAY 27th
Chair: Jonathan Davidoff
10.00-10.50 SVEIN HAUGSGJERD – What Exactly is the Function of Psychoanalytic Theory in Zizek’s Political Writings?
11.00-11.50 CALUM NEILL – The Evil I Retreat From in Myself: Nationalism and das Ding
11.50-13.30 Lunch
Chair: Lene Auestad
13.30-14.20 SZYMON WRÓBEL – Populist Logic and the concept of the Political. The Case of Poland
14.30-15.20 MATT FFYTCHE – Truth and the National Interest: Freud and the Neocons
15.30-16.20 Summing up, discussion of future conferences
Presentations are expected to take half an hour; another 20 min. is set aside for discussion. There is a 10 min. break in between each paper.
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
| Name | Title/affiliation | Country | |
| 1 | LENE AUESTAD | Research Fellow, Philosophy, University of Oslo/ Centre for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities/ currently London | Norway/UK |
| 2 | BENJAMIN BODO | Student | Norway |
| 3 | ESPEN COLLETT | Psychiatrist, Psychotherapy supervisor DnLF, Institutt for Psykoterapi, Institutt for Gruppeanalyse, Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Gruppenanalyse (Bonn), Group Analytic Society (London) | Norway |
| 4 | JONATHAN DAVIDOFF | Psychologist, Postgraduate Student in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Tavistock Centre, London | Mexico/UK |
| 5 | RONALD DOCTOR | Psychoanalyst, British Psychoanalytical Society, Consultant Psychiatrist, West London Mental Health NHS Trust | UK |
| 6 | FERENC ERÓS | Professor, Doctoral School of Psychology, postgraduate programme in psychoanalytic theory, University of Pécs | Hungary |
| 7 | MATT FFYTCHE | Director of Graduate Studies and Lecturer, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex | UK |
| 8 | HAAKON FLEMMEN | Intellectual Historian | Norway |
| 9 | JANE FRANCES | Changing Faces and Essex PhD Student | UK |
| 10 | MICHAEL FRIEDEL | Candidate, Norwegian Institute of Psychoanalysis | Norway (Born in Germany) |
| 11 | SUSANA GADACSI | Clinical Pscyhologist | Hungary/Norway |
| 12 | David Paul Galea | Doctor of medicine and surgery (MD) and Member of the Royal College of psychiatry (MRCPsych)Specialty Registrar in psychotherapy, Oxford and Buckinghamshire Mental health NHS Trust | UK |
| 13 | SVEIN HAUGSGJERD | Psychoanalyst, Chief Physician, Aker University Hospital, Oslo, Professor, Bodø University College | Norway |
| 14 | PHILIP HEWITT | Psychotherapist British Association of Psychotherapists and British Psychoanalytic Council | UK |
| 15 | PAUL HOGGETT | Professor of Politics, Director, Centre for Psycho-Social Studies, University of the West of England | UK |
| 16 | INGA MARIE HOLST | Student | Norway |
| 17 | EARL HOPPER | Psychoanalyst, British Psychoanalytical Society, Group Analyst, International Association of Group Psychotherapy | UK |
| 18 | MARTYN HOUSDEN | Reader in Modern History, University of Bradford | UK |
| 19 | TONYA SUE MADSEN | Clinical Psychologist | USA/Norway |
| 20 | DANIEL KAITIFF | Medical Doctor | UK |
| 21 | SØLVI KRISTIANSEN | Psychologist, psychoanalyst. President The Norwegian psychoanalytical Society | Norway |
| 22 | STEFFEN KRUEGER | PhD; Assistant editor with American Imago | Norway/Germany |
| 23 | STAFFAN LANG | Psychoanalyst, Psychiatrist | Sweden |
| 24 | Vera Louise Hiorth lØnning | Doctor of medicine and surgery (MD)lege I spesialisering akutt psyk. Avd, ahus (maternity leave) | Norway/UK |
| 25 | Helgard Mahrdt | Guest researcher, University of Oslo, Institute for Educational Research | Germany/Norway |
| 26 | BONITA MENDEL | Occupational Therapist. Honorary Psychodynamic Psychotherapist. | UK |
| 27 | DAVID MILLAR | Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist in the NHS, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex | UK |
| 28 | CALUM NEILL | Lecturer in Critical Psychology, Edinburg Napier University | UK |
| 29 | MARGARITA PALACIOS | Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London | UK |
| 30 | BERIT REISEL | Psychologist/HL-centre | Norway (Born in Sweden) |
| 31 | Ida svelmo nilsen | Student | Norway |
| 32 | Harald Støren | Master of Philosophy in Psychology, Candidatus Rerum Politicarum (Cand.polit.) in Political Science | Norway |
| 33 | Truls tallberg | Psychologist/Nic Waals Institute | Norway |
| 34 | SVEIN TJELTA | Group Analyst, Clinical Psychologist & Executive Editor of Matrix: Scandinavian Journal of Psychotherapy | Norway |
| 35 | SANDRA VEGAS | Psychotherapist, Universidad de San martín de Porrres Dept. of Psychology | Peru |
| 36 | RAIVO VETIK | Professor of Comparative Politics, Institute of Government, Senior Researcher, Institute of International and Social Studies, Tallinn University | Estonia |
| 37 | RIVKA WARSHAWSKY | Psychoanalyst, Lecturer Bar Ilan University, member of the Israeli Group of the European School of Psychoanalysis (GIEP), member of Psychoactive, Israeli therapists politically engaged in activism against the occupation | Israel |
| 38 | STEPHEN WILMER | Professor, Trinity College Dublin | USA/Dublin |
| 39 | SZYMON WRÓBEL | Associate Professor, Inst. of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Inst. for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Warsaw | Poland |
| 40 | AUDRONE ZUKAUSKAITE | Philosopher, Senior Research Associate, Lithuanian Institute of Culture, Philosophy and Art | Lithuania |