Psychoanalysis and politics the relation between external reality and psychic reality
Psychoanalysis and Politics is a conference series, founded by the philosopher Lene Auestad in 2010.
Contents
Psychoanalysis and politics
Aims
It aims to address how contemporary political issues may be analyzed through psychoanalytic theory and vice versa – how political phenomena may reflect back on psychoanalytic thinking. The series is international and interdisciplinary.
Engaged with "socially produced suffering on micro and macro scales, with otherness, as well as processes of othering", the series is influenced by traditions in phenomenology, critical theory and post-structuralism as well as by a range of psychoanalytic thinkers.
History
Since the first conference in Copenhagen in 2010, three-day symposia have been held each spring in Oslo, Stockholm, London, Helsinki, Budapest Barcelona and Vienna, with 2017's conference planned for Paris.
Publications
Auestad, L. (ed). Psychoanalysis and Politics: Exclusion and the Politics of Representation. London, Karnac, 2012.
Auestad, L. (ed). Nationalism and the Body Politic: Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Ethnocentrism and Xenophobia. London, Karnac, 2014.
Auestad, L. (ed). Special section: Psychoanalysis and Politics in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, Vol. 20, Issue 4, December 2015.
Interviews
In Journal of Psycho-Social Studies Vol 7 No 1 2013, Published Nov. 8 2013. [2]
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