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The Truths of Psychoanalysis: Program

May 31, 2019

11th meeting of SIPP&ISPP

International Society of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy

 

The Truths of Psychoanalysis

Stockholm 2-4 May 2019

Organizers:

Jakob Staberg

Cecilia Sjöholm

Anna-Karin Selberg

 

Thursday 2nd May Södertörn University

From 9.00, registration outside MB 503

 

9.30 Intro MB 503

9.45-10.45 MB503 Plenary session

Philippe Van Haute, Herman Westerink: “ Infantile sexuality and the finding of an object”

Chair: Beatriz Santos

 

10.45-11.00 coffee

 

11.00-13.00 Parallell sessions

MA 432

  1. a) Truth and symptom

—Christian Dunker: ”Finite and Infinite Mourning”

—Peter Jansson: ”The truth of the real”

—Luiz Martins: ”Truth-telling about Oneself in Psychoanalysis: a Genealogical Approach”

—Pedro Castilho: “The Truth Between Knowledge and Symptom in the Dora´s Case”

Chair: Gisle Selnes

 

MC 518

  1. b) Capitalism, Neoliberalism and Psychoanalysis

—Luis de Miranda- Anna Cabak Rédei: “The truth of capitalism”

— Magnus Michelsen: ”The Pyramid, The Maze, and The Short-Circuit;

Quests for Truth in Westworld”

Chair: Erik Bryngelsson

 

MC 213

  1. c) Gender, truth and the body

—Kari Jegerstedt: ”Transgender Narratives and the Truth of Sex”

—Nicolas Evzonas: ”The Truth of Gender: Psychoanalysis’ Unthinkable Trauma”

—Patricia Porchat Knudsen: ”Gender Mirror. Truths and Fiction of Identity”

—Ednei Soares: ”Between the Sexual Drive, its Aim and its Object: On Freud’s Challenge in Classifying Fetishism in the Three Essays of 1905”

Chair: Tania Espinoza

 

Lunch 13.00-14.00

 

14.00-15.30 Parallell sessions

MA 432

  1. a) Interpretation and truth

—Amos Squverer: “What is a true analytic interpretation?”

—Hugo Jorge: “The problem of suggestion for the clinical validation of hypotheses in psychoanalysis”

—Derek and Franziska Humphreys: ”La fiction comme verité”

Chair: Isabelle Letellier

 

 

MA 433

  1. b) Authoritarianism

—Rafael Alves Lima: “Policies of Secrecy in the History of Psychoanalysis” (Skype)

—Aline Rubin: ”Psychoanalytic knowledge as a form of resistance or repair: the case of Psychoanalysis in Brazil’s dictatorial society”

Chair: Christian Dunker

 

MA 434

  1. c) Psychoanalysis and the arts

—Vanessa Sinclair: ”Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: Another Royal Road”

—Alessandra Parente: ”The body of absence in Schoenberg’s Moses and Aaron: a Freudian reading” (Skype)

—Tania Espinoza: ”The truth of the work of art: Freud and Benjamin on Goethe”

Chair: Carin Franzén

 

Coffee 15.30-15.45

 

15.45-16.45 MB503 Plenary session

—Cecilia Sjöholm: ”The voice of truth”

—Carin Franzen: ”Subjective Aporias and the Dimension of Truth in Lacan’s Archeology of the Subject”

Chair: Philippe van Haute

 

Break 16.45-17.00

 

17.00-18.00 MB 503 Plenary session

Elissa Marder: ”In Place of Truth”

Chair: Monique David-Menard

 

 

18.00-21.00 Reception and buffet

 

Friday May 3rd ABF, Sveavägen 41

9.15-10.45 Katasalen Plenary session

Ferenczi

—Jenny Willner: ”Catastrophe Theory. On the Political Relevance of Ferenczian
‘Bioanalysis’”

—Jakob Staberg: ”Authenticity, truth and power in psychoanalytic experience: an approach to Ferenczi’s Clinical Diary”

—Raluca Soreanu: ”Truth, Utopia and the Figure of the Child. A Ferenczian View”

Chair: Philippe van Haute

 

10.45-11.00 Coffee

 

11.00-12.30 Parallell sessions

Katasalen

  1. a) Psychoanalysis and critical theory

—Barbara Santos: “The truth of the other: question about alterity in appropriations of psychoanalysis by contemporary Critical Theory”

—Erik Bryngelsson: ”Psychoanalysis, a science of truth?”

Chair: Vladimir Safatle

 

Branting

  1. b) Lies and psychoanalysis

—Hannah Wallerstein: ”The function of bullshit”

—Anna-Karin Selberg: ”The modern political lie: Arendt on denial and repression”

—Evan Malater/Celeste Pietrusza: ”The mysterious return of the imposter syndrome”

Chair: Patrizia Gherovici

 

Per Albin

  1. c) Enunciation and truth

—Leilane Andreoni: ”The hour of the past truth: the temporal dialectic of the revolution in L’Étourdit”

—Léa Silveira: “The phallus as a transcendental signifier. On two axes of articulation of the problem of truth in J. Lacan’s Écrits ”

—Jasper Feyaerts: ”Cartesian meditations: Lacan and the question of enunciation”

Chair: Christian Dunker

 

12.30-13.30 Lunch

 

13.30-15.30  Parallell sessions

Katasalen

  1. a) Denialisms

—Isabelle Letellier: ”The climate too! Of a common root between repressing climate change and repressing otherness”

—Sarah Troube and Tamara Guenon: ”A fictionalization of truth in the ´post-factual´ era? A psychoanalytical approach to post-truth”

—Gisle Selnes: ”On Truth and knowledge in an academic-capitalist sense”

—Nelson da Silva Junior: ”From mass media back to pastoral power. The production of truth and subjects in algorithmic times”

Chair: Jakob Staberg

 

Per Albin

  1. b) Consciousness and truth

—Meredith Friedson: ”Core Human Truths: On The Problems Of Consciousness,

Separateness, &“Reality”

—Augusto Ismerim: ”Truth in Psychoanalysis and Truth in the Neurosciences”

—Bruno Vincent: ”Destinies of truth”

—Alvaro Moreira: ”The fall of the subject supposed to know”

Chair: Herman Westerink

 

Branting

  1. c) Psychoanalysis and resistance

—Paolo Beer: “Truth and resistance between psychoanalysis and politics”

—Claudia di Gianfrancesco “Desire in the era of Neoliberalism Psychoanalytic paths to resistance”

—Nicholas Smith: “The unconscious and Afro-Caribbean experiences. Fanon’s critique of Freudian psychoanalysis”

Chair: Tania Espinoza

 

15.30-16.00 Break

 

16.00-17.00  Katasalen Plenary session

Laurie Laufer: “Vérité et sexualité:  Foucault, généalogiste de la psychanalyse”

Chair: Philippe van Haute

 

17.00-17.15 Break

 

17.15-18.15 Plenary session

Vladimir Safatle: “Why is the category of truth important for a theory of desire? The nature of the production in Lacan”

Chair: Marcia Cavalcante Schuback

 

Saturday May 4th ABF, Sveavägen 41

 

9.30-10.30 Katasalen plenary session

Mladen Dolar: ”Sophist’s Choice”

Chair: Jamieson Webster

 

10.30- 10.45 coffee

 

10.45-12.00 Plenary session

Jelica Sumic Riha: ”Truth between Semblance and the Real”

Patrizia Gherovici: ”Authenticity and truth in clinical psychoanalytic practice”

Chair: Elissa Marder

 

12.00-13.00 Lunch

 

13.00-16.00 Textseminar: ”Truth and Construction in Psychoanalysis”

Jamieson Webster, Marcus Coelen, Beatriz Santos, Monique David-Ménard, Patricia Gherovici, Celeste Pietruzsa, Evan Malater.

 

For reading: Jacques Lacan (1966/2007) “Science and Truth” in

Écrits (trans. Bruce Fink) New York: Norton.

 

Freud, Sigmund (1937/1964) “Constructions in analysis” (trans. James Strachey), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud pp.255-270, London: Hogarth.

 

 

Business Meeting 17-18 Långholmen hotel, (Långholmsmuren 20)

 

Conference dinner Långholmen hotel