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SUMMARY:On Violence: Civilization and its Blisscontents
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nOn Violence: Civilization and its Blisscontents\nViolence today seems not to address only our physical bodies and sense of safety: Columbine\, Sandy Hook\, Virginia Tech\, ISIS\, but also our positions as subjects: the medicalized body\, the surgically aesthetically improved body\, civic subjectivity reduced to consumption\, mental health reduced to pharmacology. Timothy McVeigh said\, “the government is increasingly hostile\,” and blowing up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was what he called  “the just response.” \nThis conference asks questions about violence and its relationship to the Other. Freud famously showed how civilization brought discontent\, a necessary consequence of repression. Today\, with the command to enjoy as part of the social symbolic entreaty\, perhaps we can say that we live in the age of blisscontent\, a suffering from enjoyment and the command to enjoy particular to our moment. \nHow is violence tied to forms of cultural consumption and civic participation in an era where “enjoy” is a demand? How are new clinical symptoms part of the discontents of this social inscription? How has mental health “treatment” become the handmaiden of this system? Does psychoanalysis avoid this problem? How does the violence of surveillance\, organizational management\, evaluation\, testing and even clinical “diagnosis” become manifest when the voice of the other — ethnic\, neighbor\, monster\, foreigner\, enemy\, or 99% — or the 1% for that matter –  is finally allowed to speak?  How has global culture eviscerated the differences between bodies and information as we are increasingly induced to treat our neighbor as virtual matter? \nConsider the convergence or complex relations between symbolic law and violent outbursts? When does symbolic law inspire “revolutionary” violence or awaken real and productive hopes and change in a people (The French Revolution\, Hitler’s rise to power\, The Arab Spring)? And how may we conceptualize all of the above in light of the various theories of the death drive? \n   \nClick here to view conference website \n   \nSponsoring Organizations: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDas Ding\, Philadelphia Lacan Study Group\, California Psychoanalytic Circle\, Das Unbehagen   \n   \nSchedule: \nFriday 05/01/15 – 2:00-7:45pm \n2-2:25 Registration \n2:25-2:30 Welcome – Manya Steinkoler & Vanessa Sinclair \n2:30-4:20 “Philia Fiesta: Necro\, Somno\, Porno\, Scopto” \n(30 mins each + 20 mins response/discussion) \nDanielle Knafo\, “For the Love of Death: Somnophilic and Necrophilic Acts and Fantasies” \nRay O’Neill\, “Fifty Shades of a: A Terrible Beauty is Porn” \nLiz Monahan\, “Violence and the Surrealist Unconscious” \nJulie Futrell\, chair/respondent \n4:20-4:30 break \n4:30-6:20 “The Violence of the Mental Health System” \n(30mins each + 20 mins response/discussion) \nTodd Dean\, “How to Measure What: Universals\, Particulars and Subjectivity” \nVanessa Sinclair\, “Problems in American Mental Health/ Psychoanalytic Institutions” \nPatricia Gherovici\, “Terror and the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis in Argentina 1976-1983″ \nDavid Lichtenstein\, chair/respondent \n6:20-6:30 coffee break \n6:30-7:45 (45 mins + 30 mins response/discussion) \nRenata Salecl\, Keynote \nGenevieve Morel\, chair/respondent \n  \nSaturday 05/02/15 – 9am-7:10pm \n8:30-9:00 breakfast \n9:00-10:30 “Violence in Psychoanalytic Theory” \n(20 mins each + 30 min response/discussion) \nLoren Dent\, “Tragic Recognition” \nMatthew Oyer\, “Wounded Dramatization: Bataille\, Hysteria\, Psychoanalysis” \nAlireza Taheri\, “Violence as the Psychical Subreption of the Murder of the Primal Father” \nNuar Alsadir\, chair/respondent \n“Unbearable Structural Violence: Language\, Privilege and Normalization” \n(20 mins each + 30 min response/discussion) \nLuce deLire\, “Privilege as Counterfactual Violence” \nGeoffroy Carpier\, “Medicine\, the State and Normative Violence: Laienanalysis’ \nEvan Malater & Michelle Alexander\, “The Unbearable: Benjamin\, Kafka\, Freud” \nCecile Gouffrant McKenna\, chair/respondent \n10:30-10:40 coffee break \n10:40-12:00 (45 mins + 25 min response/discussion) \nGerard Pommier\, “Orgasm as the Metamorphic Point of the Death Drive” \nMichael Garfinkle\, chair/respondent \n12:00-1:45 lunch \n1:45-3:00 “National Systemic Violence” \n(25 mins each + 25 mins discussion) \nTanya White-Davis & Anu Kotay\, “Racial Opression and Health: A Biopsychosocial View” \nSteven Reisner\, “The APA & Guantanamo” \nWill Braun\, chair/respondent \n“Violent Silence vs Violent Speech” \n(25 mins each + 25 mins discussion) \nJill Gentile\, “Freedom for the thought that we hate: Psychoanalytic considerations” \nScott Von\, “Violent Silence: Psychoanalysis and the Sacred” \nMartin Stone\, chair/respondent \n3:00-3:15 coffee break \n3:15-5:00 “Modern Literary Encounters with the Blind Site” \n(30mins each + 20mins response/discussion) \nJessica Datema\, “Blind-Sightings of Black Swan: Glimpses in Mann\, Kleist and Aronofsky” \nFranz Kaltenbeck\, “David Foster Wallace (DFW) on Violence” \nOlga Cox Cameron\, “A Terrible Beauty is Born: Colonial Counterviolence and its Fall-out in the Texture of Irish Childhood” \nJean-Michel Rabate\, chair/respondent \n5-5:10 short break \n5:10-7:00 “Thinking Violence Today” \n(30mins each + 20mins response/discussion) \nStruggle in France from the 1950’s to the late 1980’s” \nPaola Mieli\, “On Hate” \nGenevieve Morel\, “Inclination Towards Terror” \nTodd McGowan\, “The Violent Failure of Enjoyment” \nPatricia Gherovici\, chair/respondent \n8pm dinner \n  \nSunday 05/03/15 9am-4:45pm \n8:30 breakfast \n9-10:30 Undergraduate Student Panel: “Violence and …” \n(15 minutes each + 30 response/discussion) \nJane Blumenshine\, “The Violence of Destiny and the Destiny of Violence: Calderon de la Barca and Maurice Blanchot” \nGabriel Saint Emeterio\, “Hitchcock’s Psycho and Psychotic Violence: Is it Violence?” \nArion Toles\, “Masculinity and Music and Violence” \nVallory Grant\, “Sex and Kill = Skill” \nClaire-Madeline Culkin\, chair/respondent \n10:30-10:40 coffee break \n10:40-12:00 “Jack Gets a Bright Idea: The Solution of School Shooting and Understanding Psychotic Violence” \n(25 mins each + 30 mins response/discussion) \nManya Steinkoler\, “School Shooting: The Case of Adam Lanza” \nEve Watson\, “‘Shining’ a Light on Psychosis and Triggers to its Violent Expression” \nTodd Dean\, chair/respondent \n12:00-2:00 lunch \n2:00-3:20 “Having it both ways: The Pleasures of Violence and Non-Violence” \n(25 mins each + 30 mins response/discussion) \nDavid Lichtenstein\, “The Pleasures of Violence” \nDonald Moss\, “The Pleasures of Non-Violence” \nDany Nobus\, chair/respondent \n3:20-3:30 coffee break \n3:30-4:45 – (45 mins + 30 mins response/discussion) \nDany Nobus\, “Too Much Fun Will Kill You” \nJamieson Webster\, respondent \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:http://dasunbehagen.org/event/civilization-and-its-blisscontents-on-violence-and-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Forham University
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