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Keynote Speaker: Slavoj Zizek (Lubijana)
Plenary Speakers:
Julia Kristeva (Paris VII)
Toril Moi (Duke)
Kaja Silverman (Berkeley)
Why do we continue to desire psychoanalysis? What is
the nature of that desire? What can psychoanalysis
teach us about the social arrangements of our
increasingly globalized world, and especially, about the
psychic origins of our most pressing social problems
(racism, sexism, homophobia, nationalistic violence,
terrorism, genocide)? Do psychoanalytic theories have
anything to say about the highly dispersed identities of
new information technologies?
Presentations should be broadly interdisciplinary. The
conference will end with a roundtable in which we try
collectively to pull together the threads of our discussion -
and to assess where our desires have led us. We plan to
publish selected papers from the conference in a
collection of essays with a major university press.
Please send abstracts of 20-minute papers by 30
September 2002 to Paul Allen Miller at the address below.
Sponsored by the University of South Carolina College of
Liberal Arts, Program in Comparative Literature,
Department of English and associated departments and
programs.
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