Dreams of Interpretation/The Interpretation of Dreams
October 5-7, 2000
Sponsored by the Humanities Institute at the
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2000
Featuring:
Raymond Bellour
Patricia Gherovici
Pable Kovalovsky
Laura Marcus
Juliet Flower-McCannell
Gérard Pommier
Jean-Michel Rabaté
Laurence Rickels
Avital Ronell
Klaus Theweleit
This international conference commemorates the 100th anniversary of the
publication of the Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams -- an epochal
book that has left an indelible mark on the last century. This conference
looks both to the past and the future in its assessment of the Freudian
legacy and seeks to address the following questions: What is the status of
psychoanalytic theory today? At what new understandings of its history have
we arrived? What is the future of psychoanalysis and its interventions in
the clinic and in a wider cultural field?
The Interpretation of Dreams is not only a basic text of psychoanalysis, it
opens up the limit of interpretation itself and has therefore provided
critical paradigms and productive strategies for different disciplines.
Freud's Dream Book confronts the hermeneutic project with a persist
challenge that continues to demand reflection. We are inviting papers,
theoretical, clinical and historiographical that address The
Interpretation of Dreams across disciplinary and national boundaries.
Provisional panel topics include:
- Psychoanalysis and Film Theory: Beyond Spectatorship
- Ruptures and Schisms
- French Freuds
- Psychoanalysis and Marxism
- Borders and Borderlines
- States of Resistance
- Queer Theory
- Anti-psychoanalysis
- The Resurgence of Religion
- New Perversions, New Technologies: Strategies of interpretation
- Post-colonial subjects
- Death-drive at 2000
- Historiography and Interpretation
- Aberrations of Transmission: Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy
- Psychoanalysis and Psychopharmacology
- Politics of Interpretation
- History of Science and the Dream Book
All papers and proposals for panels can be sent by either snail mail or e-mail to the addresses listed below.
Postmark Deadline: April 30, 2000
Scholars without institutional support for travel and lodging may apply
for supplementary travel grants once panel proposal or paper has been
accepted.
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