Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis

Venue: University of Jyväskylä (Auditorium C4) In-person only

The main aim of the conference is to reassess the relationship between phenomenology and psychoanalysis—two frameworks that are usually counterposed and considered incompatible given their respective subject matters and methodological commitments. Phenomenology, on the one hand, is usually taken to be a descriptive philosophy of consciousness, while psychoanalysis, by contrast, builds on clinical work and aims at interpreting the unconscious structures of the mind. While acknowledging the differences between these two traditions, we hope to initiate a fertile interdisciplinary dialogue on topics of shared interest and re-examine the affinities and discrepancies, tensions and points of intersection between the two disciplines.

Programme: 

Thursday, March 5

09.00–09.15: Opening words

09.15–10.30: Talia Welsh (University of Alberta): "Phantasy and gender assignment in utero" 

10.30–10.45: Break

10.45–12.00: Vittorio Gallese (University of Parma): "From pre-natal relations to self-constitution. A neuro-behavioral perspective on primary narcissism”

12.00–14.00: Lunch

14.00–15.15: Erik Stänicke (University of Oslo): “Freud’s model of the mind within a predictive-processing neuroscientific paradigm”

15.15–15.45: Coffee break

15.45–17.00: Beata Stawarska (University of Oregon): “Gendered and racialized asymmetries – the lessons of violence”

Friday, March 6

10.00–11:15: Thomas Fuchs (Heidelberg University): “The insatiable self. An existential phenomenology of narcissism”

11:15–13:15: Lunch

13.15–14.30: Kelly Noel-Smith (London): “Space and time: Freud on how we make it and how we lose it”

14.30–15:00: Coffee break

15.00–16.15: Joona Taipale (University of Jyväskylä): “Rethinking the unconscious”

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