Place to be:
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting
Henri Dunantlaan 2
B-9000 Gent
Book available during the conference; special conference reductions.
Keynotes by
Eve Watson
IICP College
Eve Watson, Ph.D. is a psychoanalytic practitioner and academic working in Dublin, Ireland. Her recent book is Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory (Punctum, 2017) and she is the Editor of Lacunae, the International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis, a peer-reviewed journal. She is a member of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI).
Dany Nobus
Brunel University London, GB
Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Chair of the Freud Museum London. His main research interests include the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis, the history of psychiatry, and the intersections between psychoanalysis, philosophy and the arts. He is the author, most recently, of The Law of Desire: On Lacan’s ‘Kant with Sade’ (Palgrave, 2017)
Patricia Gherovici
University of Pennsylvania
Psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. She is co-founder and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group and Associate Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Minor, University of Pennsylvania (PSYS). Her most recent book is Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective On Sexual Difference (Routledge, 2017)
Adrian Johnston
University of New Mexico at Albuquerque
Adrian Johnston is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at UNM. His most recent books are Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan’s “The Freudian Thing” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism (Columbia University Press, 2018).
Ed Pluth
California State University, Chico
Ed Pluth is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Chico. He is the author of Signifiers and Acts (SUNY 2007) and Alain Badiou (Polity 2010) and co-editor of Neuroscience and Critique (Routledge 2016), as well as numerous essays on psychoanalytic theory and contemporary continental philosophy.
Paul Verhaeghe
University Ghent
Paul Verhaeghe is a clinical psychologist by training, psychoanalyst by education. He works as a professor at the University of Ghent. Since 2000, his interest has mainly focused on the impact of social changes on psychological and psychiatric difficulties.
Bruce Fink
Lacanian Psychoanalyst | Author | Private Practice
Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. He is a member of the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris and a board member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. He has translated several of Lacan’s works into English and is the author of numerous books on Lacan.
Chairs:
Derek Hook, Calum Neill, Stijn Vanheule
Call for papers
The conference will have 4 parallel sessions, where papers with a maximum length of 2000 words can be presented (15-20 minutes) and discussed.
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University of Ghent
Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting
Conference
21-22 September 2018
Call for papers
15 March 2018
Panel submission
15 March 2018