Depsychologizing/deneurologizing modern subjectivity? / One-day symposium & Book launch

This one-day symposium brings together psychologists, psychoanalysts, philosophers and educationalists to reflect on the centrality of the (neuro)psy slope of modern subjectivity and its consequences for critique. The closing event of the day is the book launch of Jan De Vos’s book “Psychologization and the Subject of Late Modernity” (Palgrave).

PROGRAMME

9:30h Welcome: Gertrudis Van de Vijver (UGent)

10:00h Education and its neuro/psy-subject

Erica Burman (University of Manchester, UK): Psychologisation and/as monkey business: the artefactual character of affect.

Stefan Ramaekers (KULeuven): The use and abuse of neuropsychological research in the field of parenting.

Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (University of Reading, UK): Children’s literature, cognitivism and neuroscience, or, capitalism and/ as the return to the same.

11:45h Philosophy and the critique of the neuro/psy-sciences

Sjoerd van Tuinen (Eramus Universiteit, NL): Depsychologizing ressentiment.

Jens De Vleminck (UGent): Making up people: The critical project of Foucault and Hacking.

Jasper Feyaerts (UGent): Who needs to be disenchanted? The destruction of the manifest image and it’s residuum.

14:30h Psy-theory and praxis as ideology critique

Paul Verhaeghe (UGent): Psychotherapy and authority .

David Pavon Cuellar (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico): Metapsychological praxis as critique of the psychological essence of ideology.

Calum Neill (Napier University, Scotland): O Cursed Spite: On Ethics and Time.

17:00h BOOK LAUNCH & WINE RECEPTION

Ian Parker (Discourse Unit, UK) interviews Jan De Vos (author, UGent)

LOCATION

Geuzenhuis, Kantienberg 9 – 9000 Gent

REGISTRATION

Entrance free, but please register via e-mail ([email protected])

Please indicate whether you wish to attend the symposium, the book launch or both.

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