Solidarity and Alienation: Social Structures of Hope and Despair

SOLIDARITY AND ALIENATION
– SOCIAL STRUCTURES OF HOPE AND DESPAIR

SPRING SYMPOSIUM IN THE VIENNA PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY (WPV),
MAY 6TH– 8TH 2016. PROGRAMME AS OF MARCH 12TH 2016
Address: Salzgries 16/3, 1010 Wien

FRIDAY 6th

09.00-09.30 Opening address with presentation round

Chair: Hemma Roessler-Schulein

09.30-10.20 PINA ANTINUCCI – The centrality of the fraternal complex to the social bond

10.30-11.20 LENE AUESTAD – Solidarity and Structures of Difference

11.30-12.20 MASAMICI UEO – Solidarity and Disagreement: Revisiting Freud’s Group Theory

12.30-13.20 STEPHEN FROSH – Acknowledgement, Apology and Forgiveness amongst those who ‘come after’

13.20-15.00 Lunch

Chair: Julia Borossa

15.00-15.50 VERA WARCHAVIK – Clinics of Testimony: Construction of Solidarity for the Silenced Victims of State Violence in Brazil

16.00-16.50 FERENC ERŐS – Refugee Crisis, Xenophobia, and Racism: The Hungarian Case

17.00-17.50 ERAN ROLNIK – Deadly Subjects: Vengeance and Self-Sacrifice as Political Weapon

18.00-18.50 WERNER PRALL – Love thy neighbour? Psychoanalysis, politics and/or ethics

(Joint dinner, covered by the organizers, in the evening)

SATURDAY 7th

Chair: Philip Hewitt

09.00-09.50 AMAL TREACHER KABESH – Colonised Subjectivities: The West and the Rest

10.00-10.50 ŽELJKA MATIJAŠEVIĆ– Narcissism: a contemporary form of social conformism

11.00-11.50 JOANNA KELLOND – The Mirror and Alienation in the Work of Lacan and Winnicott

12.00-12.50 KARL FIGLIO – Ambivalence and Solidarity

12.50-14.30 Lunch

Chair: Amal Treacher Kabesh

14.30-15.20 MERSIJA MAGLAJCIC – The Muselmann Rises: Life Worth Staying in the World Lost

15.30-16.20 LINDEN WEST – Solidarity, alienation and structures of hope: comparing Islamist groups and workers’ education in processes of mis/recognition

16.30-17.20 EDWARD WEISBAND – “No Justice, No Peace:” Psychosocial Perspectives on Solidarity and Alienation in Identity Politics

17.30-18.20 JULIA BOROSSA – Psychoanalysis and the Taking of Sides: Working Through Violence towards an Ethics of Solidarity

(Joint dinner, covered by the organizers, in the evening)

SUNDAY 8th

Chair: Lene Auestad

10.00-10.50 NERI DAURELLA/EILEEN WIELAND – Mental health and Society in a context of crisis – Reflections from Barcelona

11.00-11.50 BRUCE SCOTT– Certainty and alienation: “mental health” and cultural hegemony

12.00-12.50 JAMES MANN/PETER NEVINS – A Psychoanalytic and Phenomenological Exploration of Social Structures of Hope and Despair in 20th Century America – using the novels of James Baldwin and Nella Larsen

12.50-14.30 Lunch

Chair: Edward Weisband

14.30-15.20 RALUCA SOREANU – Alienation and Utopia in the Work of Sándor Ferenczi

15.30-16.20 ZSUZSA PORCI/JULIANNA VAMOS – Revealing the Relevant

16.30-17.20 Closing discussion, feedback about the conference

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 two shared dinners, of £230 (or €325) between February 1st and March 15th 2016 – £280 (or €396) after March 15th, is to be paid before the symposium. (Transaction fees are not included in the price). Your place is only confirmed once your registration including payment is completed.

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 January 15th. 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 Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.