CONGRESS 2011
mary | in News & Events18th Annual Congress
The Psychoanalytic Act: Contemporary Theory and Practice
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Education and Research Centre, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4
9.30a.m. – 5.30p.m.
The 18th Annual Congress seeks to address the question of the psychoanalytic act in light of contemporary theory and practice. Those interested in speaking are invited to submit titles and abstracts of no more than 300 words on the various aspects (historical, cultural, theoretical, clinical) of the topic outlined above to evewatson@eircom.net or alanrowan@svuh.ie before Monday, October 17th, October 2011. You are asked to refer to the ‘Guidelines for the Presentation of Abstracts and Papers’ and the ‘Guidelines for the Presentation of Clinical Material.’ There will be a selection committee.
Keynote Speaker: Colette Soler
Colette Soler is a psychoanalyst trained by Jacques Lacan. She practices and teaches psychoanalysis in Paris. She founded the Forums movement and the psychoanalytic School of the Lacanian field. Her most recent books are What Lacan Said About Women (2005), Lacan, l’Inconscient reinvente (2009) and Les Affects lacaniens (2011)
The Psychoanalytic Act: Contemporary Theory and Practice
Congress Fee: Members €80, students/unwaged €40 and non members €100
PROGRAMME
9:00 – 9:25 Registration
9:25 – 9:30 Welcome Remarks from Gerry Moore, Chair of APPI
9:30 – 11:00 Panel 1 (Chaired by Rob Weatherill)
Presentations 9:30 – 10:30 followed by discussion 10:30 – 11:00
Alan Rowan: ‘The Psychoanalytic Act as Act, Risk, Excess and Orientation’
Kevin Murphy: ‘The Psychoanalytic Act: An Engagement with the “More and More Forgotten” Reality of the Unconscious’
Marie Walshe: ‘The Act of a Dummy’
Carol Owens: ‘Having a Riot – 1968/2011 (Which Lack, What Act?)’
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 1:00 Panel 2 (Chaired by Martin Daly)
Presentations 11:30 – 12:30 followed by discussion 12:30 – 1:00
Anna Comerford: ‘Non-Intervention on Transference: I Just Don’t Get It’
Gabrielle O’Kelly: ‘Mind the Gap: Hearing and Not Hearing the Radical Singularity of the Subject’s Speech’
Eve Watson: ‘It’s all in the Timing! Time and the Psychoanalytic Act’
Donna Redmond: ‘What Can the Poet Teach us About the Psychoanalytic Act?’
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 2:15 Poetry Reading – Mr. Tomas Clancy (One of the most popular lecturers
of law in Ireland, wine correspondent with the Sunday Business Post) reads Finnegans Wake.
2:15 – 3:30 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION by Colette Soler (Paris) entitled ‘The Concept of the Analytical Act.’ (Session and Discussion Chaired by Helena Texier)
Re. the question of what the concept of analytical Act, produced by Lacan in 1967 changes in the direction of the treatment?
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:30 Panel 3 – Recent and Ongoing Research (Chaired by Joanne Conway)
Presentations 4:00 – 5:00 followed by discussion 5:00 – 5:30
Ray O’Neill: ‘Desire is/as a Social Construct: Lacan and Hommo Sexual Acts’
Therese Maguire: ‘”I” am Because You Cared’
Magda Kurzawska: ‘How to Act: Treatment in the Bi-Lingual Clinic’
Alan Corcoran: ‘The Oedipus Complex in the Wizard of Oz or What Can Dorothy Tell us About Psychoanalysis’
5:30 p.m. Close of Congress
Congress Dinner at Il Segreto, 13a/13 b Merrion Row, Dublin 2, at 8:00 p.m. €38.50 per person All welcome.
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