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The Institute of Psycho-Analysis will hold a conference at Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Identity Saturday and Sunday, 3 & 4 June 2000.
FRIDAY EVENING OPEN HOUSE & REGISTRATION The Institute of Psycho-Analysis SATURDAY MORNING 08.30 REGISTRATION 09.00 INTRODUCTION TO THE CONFERENCE 09.30 THE NEED FOR RECOGNITION ON THE MUTUAL
DEPENDENCY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SOCIAL THEORY 10.10 WHOS BEEN SITTING IN MY CHAIR? 10.50 COFFEE 11.15 DISCUSSION 12.30 LUNCH SATURDAY AFTERNOON Marcia Cavell 02.10 RECOGNITION OF IDENTITY OR RECOGNITION OF
STATUS? 02.35 TEA 03.00 DISCUSSION 04.15 END OF FIRST DAY SUNDAY MORNING 09.00 THE SCARS OF HUMILIATION 09.40 THE DEATH DRIVE AND THE RECOGNITION OF
AGGRESSION 10.20 COFFEE 10.45 DISCUSSION 12.00 LUNCH SUNDAY AFTERNOON Chair Jonathan Rée 01.00 RECOGNITION: FINDING AVENUES BETWEEN ONE-WAY
STREETS 01.40 DO GROUPS NEED RECOGNITION AS MUCH AS
INDIVIDUALS? 02.20 TEA 02.45 DISCUSSION 03.45 PANEL DISCUSSION 04.45 CLOSING
Registration Fee before 1 April: £85 per person (£35 student) Thereafter £110 per person (£50 student) Open House at The Institute of Psycho-Analysis, Coffee and Tea are included. Tickets can be ordered from Ann Glynn +44 171 563-5017 e-mail: 113367.3062@compuserve.com. Or direct, on-line from: http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk As space is limited, early booking is recommended.
Profiles of Speakers and Chairs DAVID ARCHARD is Reader in the Department of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. His books include Consciousness and the Unconscious (1984) Children, Rights and Childhood (1993) and Sexual Consent (1998). He has published numerous articles in social, political and moral philosophy. He is currently Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St Andrews, Reviews Editor of the Philosophical Quarterly, and co-editor of a new Routledge Series Introductions to Contemporary Political Philosophy. He is currently researching the significance and value of community within contemporary political philosophy. CATHERINE AUDARD is chair of the Forum for European Philosophy which was set up in 1996 in London as an interdepartmental organisation dedicated to the promotion of dialogue between philosophers in Britain and the rest of Europe. She teaches moral and political philosophy at the London School of Economics and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her most recent book is Anthologie historique et critique de l'utilitarisme in three volumes (1999). She has co-edited Individu et justice sociale (1988) and has edited Le Respect (1993). She has also published numerous articles on utilitarianism, liberalism, citizenship and justice. Her translations, from English into French, include John Rawls' Theory of Justice (1987), Political Liberalism (1995) and, most recently, JS Mill's Utilitarianism (1998). JESSICA BENJAMIN is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is a faculty member and supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Psychology Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and teaches at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research Program in Psychoanalysis. She is best known as the author of The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Problem of Domination. Her recent books are Like Subjects, Love Objects: Essays on Recognition and Sexual Difference (1995) and Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis (1998). She is a panellist on Psybc.com, an internet discussion by psychoanalysts of recent journal articles, and an associate editor of the new journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality. MARCIA CAVELL is a fourth year candidate at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and in private practice in Berkeley, California. Before coming to California, she taught philosophy for many years in New York City, where she was also a Research Candidate at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. A frequent visiting lecturer in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of numerous articles on philosophy and psychoanalysis, she is currently commissioning and editing a series of pieces on philosophical subjects that will be appearing in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. The first of these articles, by Cavell herself, Knowledge, Consensus and Uncertainty appeared in December 1999. She is the author of The Psychoanalytic Mind: from Freud to Philosophy (1991). NANCY FRASER is Henry A and Louise Loeb Professor of Politics and Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and co-editor of the journal Constellations. Her books include Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition (1997) and Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory (1989). She is also the co-author of Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange (1994) and the co-editor of Revaluing French Feminism: Critical Essays on Difference, Agency, and Culture (1992). This year Verso will publish two books by Nancy Fraser: Adding Insult to Injury: Social Justice and the Politics of Recognition, edited by Kevin Olson, and Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange, co-authored with Axel Honneth. SEBASTIAN GARDNER is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at University College London, having previously been Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London. He is the author of Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (1993), Kant and the 'Critique of Pure Reason' (1999), and articles on the philosophy of psychoanalysis, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and modern European philosophy. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the European Journal of Philosophy. STEPHEN GROSZ is a member and Honorary Librarian of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. Before training as a psychoanalyst he studied philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, Oxford University and University College London. In addition to teaching at the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, he teaches philosophy in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London. He is in full-time private practice. AXEL HONNETH is Professor for Social Philosophy at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main. Before coming to Frankfurt, he taught Philosophy at the University of Konstanz and at the Free University of Berlin. Trained in Sociology and Philosophy, Axel Honneth is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt/Main. He is on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Philosophy, the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie and Constellations. His books include Human Nature and Social Action (co-authored with Hans Joas) (1989), Critique of Power (1993), The Struggle for Recognition (1996) and The Fragmented World of the Social (1995). JONATHAN LEAR is the John U Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Before coming to Chicago, Professor Lear taught at Yale and at the University of Cambridge where he was a Fellow of Clare College, and Director of Studies in Philosophy. A practising psychoanalyst, he is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. His books include Aristotle: The Desire to Understand (1988), Love and its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis (1990) and Open Minded, Working out the Logic of the Soul (1998). His new book Happiness, Death and the Remainder of Life will be published by Harvard University Press later this year. AVISHAI MARGALIT is Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, Wolfson College and St.Antony's College in Oxford, the Max Planck Institute and the Free University in Berlin; most recently he has been a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University. In May 1999 he delivered the University of Frankfurt's Horkheimer Lectures, on The Ethics of Memory. He is the author of numerous articles on a variety of philosophical topics, including philosophy of language, logical paradoxes and rationality, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. His books include Idolatry (jointly with Moshe Halbertal, 1992), The Decent Society (1996), and Views in Review (1998). He has also edited Meaning and Use, Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration (jointly with Edna Ullmann-Margalit) and, in German, Amnestie (jointly with Garry Smith). He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and a founding member of Peace Now, of which he is an active member. JULIET MITCHELL is a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge University. A practising psychoanalyst, she has written on psychoanalysis, literary theory and the political theory of women's oppression. Her books include Psychoanalysis and Feminism (1974), Women's Estate (1972), Whos Afraid of Feminism? (co-edited with Ann Oakley, 1996), The Selected Melanie Klein (edited, 1986), Women: The Longest Revolution (1984), with Jacqueline Rose, Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the ecole freudienne (1982), and with Michael Parsons, a collection of the papers of Enid Balint, Before I was I (1993). Psychoanalysis and Feminism will be re-issued with a new introduction in May and her new book Madmen & Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria and the Sibling Relation for the Human Condition will be published by Allen Lane and Penguin Books in April. JONATHAN RÉE is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Middlesex University. He has published many papers and books on a wide range of philosophical subjects. His recent books include The Englishness of English Thought (1999), The Concise Encyclopaedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers (1992) edited with J.O. Urmson, Kierkegaard: A Critical Reader (1998) edited with Jane Chamberlain, and, most recently, I See a Voice (1999) in which he looks at the philosophical history of our understanding of deafness, the voice and the senses. HANNA SEGAL is a member, Training Analyst and former President of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. She has been Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London and twice Vice President of the International Psychoanalytical Association. A clinician and theoretician, she has written on psychoanalytic technique, psychosis and psychotic mechanisms, symbolism, aesthetics, literature and politics. Her books include Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein (1964) Klein (1979) The Work of Hanna Segal (1981) Dream, Phantasy and Art (1991) and Psychoanalysis, Literature and War (1997).
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