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1-3 June 2007, the programme is available here.
Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida: their psychoanalyses? How could one begin to account for this plural, this multiple? How could one understand, undertake or undergo, underwrite their psychoanalysis, their (collective) psychoanalyses? From where could their psychoanalysis take place? Who would have the resources for such a thing? What psychoanalytic situations, scenes, and transferences might this entail?
Psychoanalysis as a discourse, a corpus, a practice, a hermeneutic tool, a science, an art, an institution, a historical or personal event plays an extraordinary role throughout the works of Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida. Is psychoanalysis what they have in ‘common’? Is it on the side of philosophy or literature? What do they do with it? What does it do with them? Why is it forever returning?
What contribution have Cixous and Derrida made to our understanding of psychoanalysis: its sovereignties and cruelties, inheritances and futures, readings and misreadings? What contribution does psychoanalysis make to Cixous and Derrida: their texts and pretexts, their thinking, their poetries, their performances and positions? In their long thinking, living, writing relationship, what is the place of psychoanalysis?
This symposium will attend to the figures and implications of psychoanalysis in the texts of Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida. In doing so it will consider what is singular and significant about the role of psychoanalysis in their works and in the complex reflective, (self) reflexive, translational, transferential, conscious/unconscious dialogue that joins and separates them.
Hélène Cixous
Geoffrey Bennington (Emory)
Mairéad Hanrahan (UCL)
Peggy Kamuf (USC)
Elissa Marder (Emory)
Ginette Michaud (Montreal)
Laurent Milesi (Cardiff)
Jean-Michel Rabaté (UPenn)
Frédéric Regard (Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon)
Nicholas Royle (Sussex)
Marta Segarra (Barcelona)
Sarah Wood (Canterbury, Kent)
Martin McQuillan, Eric Prenowitz, Ashley Thompson of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, in the Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communication, at the University of Leeds.
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The symposium will take place at Three Albion Place, Leeds, LS1 6JL. Map.
Albion Place runs parallel with The Headrow and is bounded by Albion Street and Briggate. The junction of Albion Place and Albion Street is marked by Austin Reed & The Conservatory at one corner and The Carphone Warehouse at the other corner.
Three Albion Place is a sandstone building adjoining The Newcastle Building Society and is almost directly opposite PERTEMPS. Apart from a brass plaque on the left porch pillar the building is unmarked.
There is ample NCP car parking in Albion Street and at The Light shopping centre nearby and free parking at the top end of Albion Street opposite Argos and Waterstones is available after 6 pm.
Leeds Railway station is within 10 minutes walking distance.
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