Conference on Psychoanalysis
On Violence:
Civilization and its Blisscontents
Friday-Sunday, May 1-3, 2015
at Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY 05/01/15 – 2:00-7:45pm
2-2:25 Registration
2:25-2:30 Welcome – Manya Steinkoler & Vanessa Sinclair
2:30-4:20 “Philia Fiesta: Necro, Somno, Porno, Scopto”
(30 mins each + 20 mins response/discussion)
Danielle Knafo, “For the Love of Death: Somnophilic and Necrophilic Acts and
Fantasies”
Ray O’Neill, “Fifty Shades of a: A Terrible Beauty is Porn”
Liz Monahan, “Violence and the Surrealist Unconscious”
Julie Futrell, chair/respondent
4:20-4:30 break
4:30-6:20 “The Violence of the Mental Health System”
(30mins each + 20 mins response/discussion)
Todd Dean, “How to Measure What: Universals, Particulars and Subjectivity”
Vanessa Sinclair, “Problems in American Mental Health/ Psychoanalytic
Institutions
Patricia Gherovici, “Terror and the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis in Argentina
1976-1983”
David Lichtenstein, chair/respondent
6:20-6:30 coffee break
6:30-7:45 (45 mins + 30 mins response/discussion)
Renata Salecl, Keynote
Genevieve Morel, chair/respondent
SATURDAY 05/02/15 – 9am-7:10pm
8:30-9:00 breakfast
9:00-10:30 “Violence in Psychoanalytic Theory”
(20 mins each + 30 min response/discussion)
Loren Dent, “Tragic Recognition”
Matthew Oyer, “Wounded Dramatization: Bataille, Hysteria, Psychoanalysis”
Alireza Taheri, “Violence as the Psychical Subreption of the Murder of the Primal
Father”
Nuar Alsadir, chair/respondent
And
“Unbearable Structural Violence: Language, Privilege and Normalization”
(20 mins each + 30 min response/discussion)
Luce deLire, “Privilege as Counterfactual Violence”
Geoffroy Carpier, “Medicine, the State and Normative Violence: Laienanalysis’
Struggle in France from the 1950’s to the late 1980’s”
Evan Malater & Michelle Alexander, “The Unbearable: Benjamin, Kafka, Freud”
Cecile Gouffrant McKenna, chair/respondent
10:30-10:40 coffee break
10:40-12:00 (45 mins + 25 min response/discussion)
Gerard Pommier, “Orgasm as the Metamorphic Point of the Death Drive”
Michael Garfinkle, chair/respondent
12:00-1:45 lunch
1:45-3:00 “National Systemic Violence”
(25 mins each + 25 mins discussion)
Tanya White-Davis & Anu Kotay, “Racial Opression and Health:
A Biopsychosocial View”
Steven Reisner, “The APA & Guantanamo”
Will Braun, chair/respondent
And
“Violent Silence vs Violent Speech”
(25 mins each + 25 mins discussion)
Jill Gentile, “Freedom for the thought that we hate:
Psychoanalytic considerations”
Scott Von, “Violent Silence: Psychoanalysis and the Sacred”
Martin Stone, chair/respondent
3:00-3:15 coffee break
3:15-5:00 "Modern Literary Encounters with the Blind Site”
(30mins each + 20mins response/discussion)
Jessica Datema, "Blind-Sightings of Black Swan: Glimpses in Mann, Kleist and Aronofsky"
Franz Kaltenbeck, “David Foster Wallace (DFW) on Violence”
Olga Cox Cameron, “A Terrible Beauty is Born: Colonial Counterviolence and its Fall-out in the Texture of Irish Childhood”
Jean-Michel Rabate, chair/respondent
3:15-5:00 “The Violence of Adaptation and the Protest Against it in Society and Psychoanalysis”
(20mins each + 30mins response/discussion)
Christopher Crawford, “Psychoanalysis, Social Theory, and the Violence of Adaptation”
Benjamin Koditschek, “The Auto-Aesthetic”
Ronald Lieber, “Words Are Not Enough”
Andrew Thompson, “The Work of Violence in the Age of Repressive Desublimation”
Tracy Morgan, chair/respondent
5-5:10 short break
5:10-7:00 “Thinking Violence Today”
(30mins each + 20mins response/discussion)
Paola Mieli, “On Hate”
Genevieve Morel, “Inclination Towards Terror”
Todd McGowan, “The Violent Failure of Enjoyment”
Patricia Gherovici, chair/respondent
8pm dinner
SUNDAY 05/03/15 9am-4:45pm
8:30 breakfast
9-10:30 Undergraduate Student Panel: “Violence and …”
(15 minutes each + 30 response/discussion)
Jane Blumenshine, “The Violence of Destiny and the Destiny of Violence:
Calderon de la Barca and Maurice Blanchot”
Gabriel Saint Emeterio, “Hitchcock’s Psycho and Psychotic Violence: Is it Violence?”
Arion Toles, “Masculinity and Music and Violence”
Vallory Grant, “Sex and Kill = Skill”
Claire-Madeline Culkin, chair/respondent
10:30-10:40 coffee break
10:40-12:00 “Jack Gets a Bright Idea: The Solution of School Shooting and
Understanding Psychotic Violence”
(25 mins each + 30 mins response/discussion)
Manya Steinkoler, “School Shooting: The Case of Adam Lanza”
Eve Watson, “‘Shining' a Light on Psychosis and Triggers to its Violent
Expression”
Todd Dean, chair/respondent
12:00-2:00 lunch
2:00-3:20 “Having it both ways: The Pleasures of Violence and Non-Violence”
(25 mins each + 30 mins response/discussion)
David Lichtenstein, “The Pleasures of Violence”
Donald Moss, “The Pleasures of Non-Violence”
Dany Nobus, chair/respondent
3:20-3:30 coffee break
3:30-4:45 – (45 mins + 30 mins response/discussion)
Dany Nobus, “Too Much Fun Will Kill You”
Jamieson Webster, respondent