Three Visions of Psychoanalysis [electronic resource].

Fall Semester 2016

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Psychoanalysis has always traded on the figures of identity and interior depth. Even when these two were placed at odds with one another they were still bound in a tight dialectic. I have become more and more wary, or weary, of both these cures and their embrace. Is there a way of thinking the subject without identity, is there a way of thinking about space and the mind without re-evoking, yet again, the trope of what is ‘on the inside’? These questions seem to run head first into the wall of epistemological  questions concerning what can be known, not simply, about identity or the mind, but also how we place any knowledge or knowing in relation to them. It is not simply a question of how we know what we know about the mind, the body, the self, but how we envision what we think they know or are supposed to know and how. Present day psychology, neuroscience, the empire of therapies, trades on different visions of this relationship, not only establishing a certain kind of doctor thereby—so regal, so well-informed, so clean—but also his object, which is often an identity to be consolidated, a depth to be plumbed and exposed, or a body that should be rendered seamless or declared out-of-order. I would like to find a different vision of psychoanalysis. One that finds a way to stop this machine. This time, I could only find the means of doing so through the strange medium of fire, touch and madness.
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Critical Theory
Neurosciences--Philosophy

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Jamieson Webster
Antonia Wright
Marcos Valella
Odalis Valdivieso
Angela Valella
Felice Grodin
Yamilet Ramírez
Andreas Töpfer