This workshop explores the intersections between psychoanalysis\, spirituality\, and logic\, with particular attention to how each domain articulates different forms of meaning\, truth\, and subjectivity.
\nPsychoanalysis has long engaged with questions that exceed empirical description: desire\, unconscious structures\, symbolic formations\, and the limits of rational articulation. Spiritual traditions\, in turn\, often address experiences that resist formalization\, invoking transcendence\, faith\, and transformation. Logic\, by contrast\, has historically been associated with clarity\, structure\, and formal rigor.
\nRather than treating these domains as mutually exclusive\, this workshop invites contributions that examine their tensions\, overlaps\, and possible integrations. What forms of reasoning emerge when unconscious processes\, spiritual experience\, and logical structures intersect? Can logic account for the paradoxes found in psychoanalytic and spiritual discourse? Or do these domains reveal limits internal to logical systems themselves?
\nWe welcome papers that engage with\, but are not limited to\, the following themes:
\n\nThe logical structure of psychoanalytic concepts (e.g.\, desire\, lack\, repetition\, the unconscious)
\nParadox\, contradiction\, and negation in psychoanalysis and spirituality
\nThe role of language in shaping psychic and spiritual experience
\nPsychoanalysis and religious experience: convergence or irreducibility
\nFormal versus non-formal reasoning in therapeutic and spiritual practices
\nThe limits of rationality in relation to faith\, belief\, and subjectivity
\nLogic and the symbolic: from classical systems to alternative logics
\nEmbodiment\, affect\, and their resistance to formalization
\nWe particularly encourage interdisciplinary approaches that bring together philosophy\, psychoanalysis\, religious studies\, cognitive science\, and related fields.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nPlease submit an abstract of 300&ndash\;500 words via the conference website:
\nhttps://5wocolor.com/
\n\nWhen submitting\, please indicate that your paper is intended for the workshop &ldquo\;Psychoanalysis\, Spiritual and Logical Dimensions.&rdquo\;
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Maira de Cinque: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260611T130207Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260923T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260927T170000 SUMMARY:The Logic of Profit and Faith UID:20260617T034432Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:America/Vancouver LOCATION:626 West Pender Street \, Vancouver\, Canada DESCRIPTION:The workshop The Logic of Profit and Faith invites submissions that explore the relationship between economic reasoning and forms of life grounded in faith\, ethics\, and social practice.
\nKeynote speakers: David Silver and Samir Gandesha.
\nThis workshop aims to bring together scholars across philosophy\, critical theory\, religion\, and economics to examine the limits of calculative rationality\, the nature of value\, and the tensions between institutional logics and lived moral experience.
\nTopics of interest include\, but are not limited to:
\nContributions engaging Marxist perspectives on value\, labor\, commodification\, and ideology are especially encouraged.
\nPapers addressing these questions in light of recent conflicts in the Middle East are also welcome\, particularly in relation to economic interests\, narratives of value\, moral justification\, and the role of religion in shaping political and ethical responses.
\nSubmission Guidelines:
\nThis workshop seeks to foster a rigorous and interdisciplinary dialogue on the limits and possibilities of contemporary value systems.
\nOrganizer:
Dr. Maira de Cinque
Assistant Professor\, University Canada West
Co-chair\, 5th World Congress on Logic and Religion (WoCoLoR)