Symposium in Ghent Belgium - Friday 13th January 2017
Marx, Lacan and a Third Thing
Due to unforeseen circumstances Robert Pfaller is unable to come to the symposium. So there are some changes made in the programme with the cooperation of some extra guests: Stijn Vanheule (Ghent University), Jasper Feyaerts (Ghent University) and Aaron Schuster (Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam).
Please see the details of the adjusted programme below.
LOCATION:Geuzenhuis, Kantienberg 9 – 9000 Gent, Belgium.
Entrance is free but please register to reserve your place by sending an e-mail to: [email protected] (or use the form below!)
How does one link Karl Marx to Jacques Lacan? Or still differently, how does one link political economy to subjectivity and the personal? Is there not always a recourse to be observed to a third thing to allow the linkage? This “tertium quid” can take different forms: it can be a third author, a third theory (e.g., German Idealism, [critical] psychology …), or it can be something extra-academic such as the arts or activism itself.
This one day symposium sets out from some recent major contributions in linking Marxism to psychoanalysis and examines both the necessity and the effect of bringing in a third term.
Our speakers are Samo Tomšič, author of “The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan” (Verso, 2016), David Pavón Cuéllar, author of “Marxism and Psychoanalysis. In or against Psychology” (Routledge, 2017), Stijn Vanheule, author of i.e. "Diagnosis and the DSM: A Critical Review", and Jasper Feyaerts.
The third element will also be brought in by the respondents, Wouter Wanzeele (social worker, activist) and Dominiek Hoens (RITCS, Brussels) and by Aaron Schuster (Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, author of "The Trouble with Pleasure"), who will moderate the closing panel discussion.
Programme
9u30 Welcome and coffee
10u00 Jan De Vos (Ghent University)
“Marx, Lacan & the digitalisation of (inter)subjectivity.” (Introductory paper)
11u00 David Pavón Cuéllar (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico)
“Marxism, psychoanalysis and the critique of psychological dualism: from dualist repression to the return of the repressed in hysteria and class consciousness” (abstract)
Response by Wouter Wanzeele (social worker, activist)
12u30 Lunch
14u00 Samo Tomšič (Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany)
“Labour and Psychoanalysis” (abstract)
Response by Dominiek Hoens (RITCS, Brussels)
15u30 Coffee
16u00 Stijn Vanheule (Ghent University)
"Capitalist Discourse, Subjectivity and Lacanian Psychoanalysis."
16u45 Jasper Feyaerts (Ghent University)
"Anybody home in the unconscious? Revisiting Politzer, Laplanche and Lacan on psychoanalytic materialism."
17u30 Panel discussion led by Aaron Schuster (Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam)
18u30 Closure
9u30 Welcome and coffee
10u00 Jan De Vos (Ghent University)
“Marx, Lacan & the digitalisation of (inter)subjectivity.” (Introductory paper)
11u00 David Pavón Cuéllar (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico)
“Marxism, psychoanalysis and the critique of psychological dualism: from dualist repression to the return of the repressed in hysteria and class consciousness” (abstract)
Response by Wouter Wanzeele (social worker, activist)
12u30 Lunch
14u00 Samo Tomšič (Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany)
“Labour and Psychoanalysis” (abstract)
Response by Dominiek Hoens (RITCS, Brussels)
15u30 Coffee
16u00 Stijn Vanheule (Ghent University)
"Capitalist Discourse, Subjectivity and Lacanian Psychoanalysis."
16u45 Jasper Feyaerts (Ghent University)
"Anybody home in the unconscious? Revisiting Politzer, Laplanche and Lacan on psychoanalytic materialism."
17u30 Panel discussion led by Aaron Schuster (Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam)
18u30 Closure