I think this might be of interest to many on the list.
*Call for Papers*
**
*38th Annual University of South Carolina French Literature Conference*
**
*March 18-20, 2010*
**
*French Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis in French: *
*Language, Literature, Culture*
Psychoanalysis in France has a long and rich history. From the early work
of Marie Bonaparte, the interventions of the surrealists, and the
dissertation of a young medical student named Jacques Lacan in the 1920s to
the heights of the École Freudienne, the expulsion of Luce Irigaray, and
Deleuze and Guattari’s *Anti-Oedipus* in the 1970s, psychoanalysis played a
central role in French intellectual life throughout the twentieth century.
Indeed, whether in the work of Lacanian and postLacanian intellectuals and
analysts (such as Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous, and Jacques Derrida), or in
that of psychoanalytic skeptics such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel
Foucault, specifically French debates on and within analysis have shaped the
culture of literary, philosophical, cinematic, and historical studies around
the globe. At the same time, the postcolonial world of Francophone
literature and film have radically called into question the very
universality of the Freudian family romance, forcing us to pose the
question, in the words of a famous book title: is there an *Oedipe Africain*?
Finally, both inside France and beyond its borders, there is a rich
tradition of psychoanalytic interpretation of the classic texts of French
literature.
This conference seeks to pose the following questions: is there a
specifically French form of psychoanalysis and what are its characteristics;
does the psychoanalytic narrative also have purchase on the larger world of
Francophonie or are such pretensions to universalism necessarily ahistorical
and imperialistic; what is the future of psychoanalysis as method of
interpreting French literature and film and will its insights continue to
produce new understandings or has its time now passed? Twenty-minute papers
addressing these subjects should be sent by e-mail to Allen Miller (
pamiller@xxxxxx) by November 1, 2009. All papers accepted for this
conference will be published in volume 38 of *French Literature Series* (*
FLS*).
--
Paul Allen Miller
Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
Editor, Transactions of the American Philological Association
Vice President, Southern Comparative Literature Association
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
803-777-0951
pamiller@xxxxxx
*Call for Papers*
**
*38th Annual University of South Carolina French Literature Conference*
**
*March 18-20, 2010*
**
*French Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis in French: *
*Language, Literature, Culture*
Psychoanalysis in France has a long and rich history. From the early work
of Marie Bonaparte, the interventions of the surrealists, and the
dissertation of a young medical student named Jacques Lacan in the 1920s to
the heights of the École Freudienne, the expulsion of Luce Irigaray, and
Deleuze and Guattari’s *Anti-Oedipus* in the 1970s, psychoanalysis played a
central role in French intellectual life throughout the twentieth century.
Indeed, whether in the work of Lacanian and postLacanian intellectuals and
analysts (such as Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous, and Jacques Derrida), or in
that of psychoanalytic skeptics such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel
Foucault, specifically French debates on and within analysis have shaped the
culture of literary, philosophical, cinematic, and historical studies around
the globe. At the same time, the postcolonial world of Francophone
literature and film have radically called into question the very
universality of the Freudian family romance, forcing us to pose the
question, in the words of a famous book title: is there an *Oedipe Africain*?
Finally, both inside France and beyond its borders, there is a rich
tradition of psychoanalytic interpretation of the classic texts of French
literature.
This conference seeks to pose the following questions: is there a
specifically French form of psychoanalysis and what are its characteristics;
does the psychoanalytic narrative also have purchase on the larger world of
Francophonie or are such pretensions to universalism necessarily ahistorical
and imperialistic; what is the future of psychoanalysis as method of
interpreting French literature and film and will its insights continue to
produce new understandings or has its time now passed? Twenty-minute papers
addressing these subjects should be sent by e-mail to Allen Miller (
pamiller@xxxxxx) by November 1, 2009. All papers accepted for this
conference will be published in volume 38 of *French Literature Series* (*
FLS*).
--
Paul Allen Miller
Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
Editor, Transactions of the American Philological Association
Vice President, Southern Comparative Literature Association
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
803-777-0951
pamiller@xxxxxx