17th Annual Congress

‘How to Act’
- Ethics and the Psychoanalytic Clinic in a
culture of suppression and demand.
Independent College Dublin, 60-63 Dawson Street, Dublin 2
On
Saturday, December 4th, 2010

9.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m.
Keynote Speakers: Ian Parker and Christian Dunker

PROGRAMME

First Session: KEYNOTE SESSION
9.15-10.15  Ian Parker ‘A Clinic of the Real’ & Christian Dunker ‘The Therapeutic Effect of the Real: Logic and Politics in Psychoanalytic Healing’
10.15-10.45  Discussion
(Chair: Alan Rowan)
10.45-11.15  Coffee Break
Second Session
11.15-11.35  Florencia Shanahan ‘Why to Act?’
11.35-11.55  Kevin Murphy ‘Beyond the Good’
11.55-12.15  Carol Owens: ‘Paradoxes of Enjoyment, Paradoxes of Cruelty (On not giving up on desire…)’
12.15-12.40  Discussion
(Chair: Mary Keating)
12.40 – 1.30   Lunch
Third Session: GUEST SPEAKER SESSION
1:30 – 1:55  Erica Burman: ‘Group Acts and Missed Encounters: Lacan and Foulkes’
1:55 - 2.15  Discussion
(Chair: Olga Cox Cameron)
Fourth Session
2.15-2:30   Eve Watson: ‘In Whose Voice, Freud’s, Emmy’s or …?   Considerations of the Object-Voice’
2.30-2.45  Marie Walshe: ‘An Act that is a Cut’
2.45-3.00  Ray O’Neill: ‘See no Evil; Hear no Evil; Speak no Evil: An Ethical Vision of Psychoanalysis?’
3:00-3:15  Christine Gormely: ‘Jouissance Beyond the Ascetic Ideal’
3:15-3:30  Discussion
(Chair: Bernard Kennedy)
3:30-3:45  Coffee Break
Fifth Session
3:45-4:00  Alan Rowan: ‘On Not Getting What You Want’
4:00-4:15  Alan Corcoran: ‘The Ethical Position of the Analyst in Lacan’s Optical Schema’
4:30 – 4:45  Liz Monahan: ‘Ethics and the Real’
4:45-5:00  Discussion
(Chair: Pauline O’Callaghan)
Sixth Session: ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION, chaired by Gerry Sullivan
5:00-5.55  Panel Discussants: Gerry Sullivan (chair), Ian Parker, Christian Dunker, Erica Burman, Olga Cox Cameron & Medb Ruane
5:55-6:00  Closing Remarks, Eve Watson Chair APPI Scientific Committee

Congress Fee:  Members €80, Students €40, Non-members €100 (includes Tea/Coffee and Lunch).  Half Day without lunch €30

Contact eve.watson@independentcolleges.ie or mcbarry@eircom.net for more details