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Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology
No full textThis co-authored book aimed to produce a new account of applied psychoanalysis, by outlining ‘elements of a psychoanalytic epistemology’. It was initiated in a panel at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society Conference at Rutgers University, NJ (2001).
Part One of the book (by Professor Dany Nobus) examined the epistemological legacy of Freud and Lacan, Part Two (by Dr Malcolm Quinn) focused on the ‘Four Discourses’ of Lacan’s Seminar XVII (1969-70), which express a relationship between knowledge and the social bond. This book was described by Jason B. Jones in 'The Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, 11 (2006), as ‘the most useful guide to so-called applied psychoanalysis that I have ever read.’
Quinn’s chapter ‘Reading Seminar XVII’ was the most extended engagement with this seminar in English, until the publication of the first full English translation of the seminar and an accompanying edited collection in 2006, both of which Quinn has reviewed for Journal for Lacanian Studies and are due be published in December 2007. Quinn and Nobus’ work on issues of psychoanalytic research methods in the book led to a successful joint application for an AHRC grant (lead applicant, Quinn) to conduct a two-year series of workshops with Doctoral Students at Wimbledon and Brunel University on ‘Doctoral Research Training in Psychoanalytic Theory in Art and Performance’.
Quinn’s contribution has led to the invitation to be co-convenor for the Arts (with Dr Sharon Kivland) as part of the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies AHRC-funded Research Network Scheme ‘Psychoanalysis and the Arts and Humanities: A Multilingual Perspective’ (Director: Professor Naomi Segal)
E. Homburger, De toekomst van de voorlichting en de psychoanalyse (vertaling uit het Duits door D. Nobus)
No full textPsychoanalysis In Search of Itself: Jacques Lacan, T. S. Eliot, and the Seductions of Modernism
No full text“I journeyed to London, to the timekept City,Where the River flows, with foreign flotations.There I was told: … ” [et la suite]—T.S. Eliot, “Choruses from ‘The Rock’,” 153
[1] T. S. Eliot, “Choruses from ‘The Rock’,” in The Poems of T. S. Eliot. Vol. 1: Collected & Uncollected Poems, eds. Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue (London: Faber & Faber, 2015), 153.
The argument underpinning this essay is relatively simple, although to the best of our knowledge it has not been previously formulated as such in the literature on Lacanian psychoanalysis, neither in its features and contours, nor in its repercussions. When, during the Summer of 1953, Lacan set himself to work on the lengthy theoretical position paper that was to have served as the focal point of discussion for the 16th Conférence des psychanalystes de langues romanes, the acrimonious split that had divided the French psychoanalytic community during the month of June prompted him to recover the foundational principles of psychoanalysis by radically transforming the way in which Freud’s brainchild had developed following his death. In 1953, Lacan thus took advantage of an institutional crisis to change the face of contemporary psychoanalysis, with the purpose of retrieving and reinstating its true value. We shall never know what Lacan would have written if he had done so as a member of the Société psychanalytique de Paris rather than the newly established Société française de psychanalyse, yet the content of his text is most likely to have been substantially different, if only because he would not have experienced the same urge to expose his colleagues’ numerous misconceptions of psychoanalytic theory and practice, even less the need to outline a completely new programme for psychoanalysis. As Lacan himself put it in the opening paragraph of his report: “The discourse that the reader will find here warrants an introduction that provides some context. Because it bears its mark.”..
Presentation on Balint at Lacan's Seminar Freud's Papers on Technique, 26 May 1954
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Th. Snoy, 'Per via di porre', 'per via di levare' : psychoanalyse en therapeutische instelling, vertaald uit het Frans door D. Nobus en V. De Gucht
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The politics of gift-giving and the provocation of Lars Von Trier's Dogville
Get PDFIn what follows, I wish to use the circumstances and dynamics of the nocturnal scene of destruction at the Old Mill and the subsequent scene of carnage at the house of Chuck and Vera in Dogville as a springboard for developing some reflections on the ‘politics of gift-giving’, and the relationship between friendship and hostility in the exchange of social goods. The term ‘springboard’ is no doubt too vague, here, because I intend to approach the two scenes, and the film as a whole, as a radical provocation, thus distinguishing my approach from the traditional methodology of ‘application’, in which a work of art is used in order to exemplify a certain theoretical construction. As it happens, ‘provocation vs. illustration’ in itself constitutes one of the key ‘moral’ antagonisms of von Trier’s film and, as I shall argue, it is the dogged determination of Tom Edison Jr. (Paul
Bettany), the town’s amateur-philosopher, moral lecturer and self-crowned “miner of the human soul”, to illustrate the human problem and his failure to be provoked which brings unrest to the township of Dogville and which finally makes it go to the dogs
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