Program

Thursday, February13

9:00-9:30 Registration

9:30-9:45
Opening Remarks (Russell House 303)
Chair: Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina
Dean Joan Stewart, College of Liberal Arts, University of South Carolina.

1. 10:00-12:15
A. Clinical Desire (Russell House 303)
Chair: George Geckle, University of South Carolina


• "A Theory of the Desire of the Analyst for Theory: The View from Behind One American Couch."
  Eugene Kaplan, University of South Carolina Medical School
  
• "Psychoanalysis and the 'Free' Individual."
  Lynne Layton, Harvard University          
  
• "Patterns: Making Use of the 'Language of the Body.'"
  Marilyn Charles, East Lansing, Michigan
  
• "Drenched with Desire: Arousing Passion in Psychoanalytic Education."
  Rachel Newcombe, New York, New York

  B. Art, Education, and Institutions (Russell House 304)
  Chair: Kim Robertson, Culver-Stockton College
  

• "The Margins of Psychoanalytic Criticism: Reflections on Current Musicology and Psychoanalytic Theory."
  Susanna Välimäki, University of Helsinki
  
• "The Conformist: Allegories of Transference."
  Angelo Restivo, East Carolina University
  
• "Teaching Lacan/Psychoanalysis at Yeshiva College."
  Elizabeth Stewart, Yeshiva College
  
• "Lacan in the Dream House: Towards a Psychoanalysis of the Museum."
  Jae Emerling, University of California at Los Angeles

  C. Psychoanalysis, Surrealism, Postmodernism (Russell House 305)
  Chair: Agnes Mueller, University of South Carolina
  

• "The Floating Gaze in Andreas Gursky's Photography."
  Atussa Hatami, University of South Carolina
  
• "Art in the Age of Psychoanalytical Literacy."
  Eva Forgacs, Art Center College of Design
  
• "Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Surreal and Hyperreal."
  Ellen Handler Spitz, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  
• "Notes Toward a Psycho-Dialectic: Lacan, Crevel, Aimée."
  Jonathan Eburne, University of Tennessee

  12:15-2:30 Lunch

  2. 2:30-4:45
  A. Psychoanalysis, Bataille, Postructuralism (Russell House 303)
  Chair: Sharon Nell, Texas Tech University
  

• "For the Love of Psychoanalysis."
  Linda Belau, The George Washington University
  
• "The Pharmakon of Death: Tragedy as Fetish."
  Lee Morrisey, Clemson University
  
• "'Remembering Amnesia': Georges Bataille and Jean-François Lyotard on the Aesthetics of Inner Experience and the Lessons of Psychoanalysis."
  John Gerard Moore, Lander University
  
• "Bataille, Desiring [-] the Impossible. Or What Psychoanalysis Forgets About Desire."
  Anthony O'Shea, University of Sunderland

  B. Revising Psychoanalysis (Russell House 304)
  Chair: Chantal Rodais, SUNY Binghmaton
  

• "Against Melancholia."
  Greg Forter, University of South Carolina
  
• "Longing."
  Julia De Pree, Agnes Scott College
  
• "Mind, Self, and Subject: Lacan's Conversation and Gestures."
  Christopher Hanlon, Eastern Illinois University
  
• "Revising the Detective Model: The Analyst as the Other Witness."
  Domietta Torlasco, University of California at Berkley

  C. Kristevan Engagements (Russell House 305)
  Chair: Julia Gembarovicova, SUNY Binghamton
  

• "Psychoanalytic Interpretation and/as Forgiveness."
  Clive Thomson, University of Western Ontario
  
• "The Construction of the Analytical/Aesthetic Self in the Recent Work of Julia Kristeva."
  Jane Hoogestraat, Southwest Missouri State University
  
• "Kristeva: For the Love of Revolt."
  Robin James, DePaul University

  5:30-6:30
  Keynote Address (Russell House Theater)
  Chair: William Edmiston, University of South Carolina
  "Can the Desire of The Analyst Be Collectivized?"
  Slavoj Zizek, University of Ljubjana

  7:30 Banquet (Saluda's Restaurant)

  Friday, February14

  3. 9:00-10:30
  A. Marxism and Psychoanalysis (Russell House 303)
  Chair: Martin Donougho, University of South Carolina
  

• "Stalin on the Couch, Zizek to the Finland Station."
  Bill Martin, DePaul University
  
• "Class, Hegemony, and the Real."
  Yahya Madra, University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
  Ceren Özelçuk, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  
• "From Political Economy to Libidinal Economy: Slavoj Zizek between Marxism and Psychoanalysis."
  Adrian Johnson, Emory University

  B. Psychoanalysis, the New Economy, and the Electronic Age (Russell House 304)
  Chair: Pearl James, Davidson College
  

• "Critique of Pure Usability: Perversion and the Graphical User Interface."
  Terry Harpold, University of Florida
  
• "Update Your Death Drive! Psychoanalysis and the New Dis-Order."
  Andrés Nader, University of Rochester
  
• "The Birth of the Humanities Curriculum and the Advent of an Electronic-Age Pedagogy."
  Charles Sheaffer, University of Minnesota

  C. Woman and the "Other" (Russell House 305)
  Chair: Jeanne Garane, University of South Carolina
  

• "Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism in the Era of the Ego: The Case of Gendered Genocide by Any Means in Postcolonial India."
  Renu Dube, Boise State University
  
• "Antigone in (Post-)Modern Palestine."
  Fatima Festic, University of California at Los Angeles
  
• "Antigone-Electra-Fata."
  Ljiljana Filipovic, Academy of Dramatic Art, Zagreb Croatia

  11:00-12:00
  Plenary Address (Russell House Theater)
  "Retracing the Disconnects: Psychoanalysis @ the Millennium, with Special Attention to Religion."
  Henry Sussman, SUNY Buffalo

  12:00-2:00 Lunch

  4. 2:00-3:30

  A. Psychoanalyzing the Ancien Régime (Russell House 303)
  Chair: William Edmiston, University of South Carolina
  

• "Queer(ing) Pleasure: Having a Gay Old Time in the Culture of Early-Modern France."
  Pierre Zoberman, Univeristé de Paris
  
• "What Does the Hymen Want? The Desire of Enlightenment Virginity."
  Sharon Diane Nell, Texas Tech University
  
• "Why She Blushes and Faints: Female Physiology and Psychology in Pamela."
  Jung Ja Choi, San Francisco State University

  B. Terrorism, Totalitarianism, and Other Coercions (Russell House 304)
  Chair: Paul Kingsbury, University of Kentucky
  

• "Beyond Coping or How Not to Positively Affirm Oneself."
  Aaron Schuster, Katholieke Universteit Leuven (Belgium)
  
• "Hitler's Body and the Body Politic: Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Genocide."
  Richard Koenigsberg, Library of Social Science Book Exhibits
  
• "Hegel, Lacan and the Real Identity of Osama: The Terrorist as objet petit a."
  Kenneth I. Burak, DePaul University

  C.  Complexities at the Millenial Turn: Emergence, Disciplinarity, Resistance (Russell House 305)
  Chair: Thomas Rickert, Purdue University
  

• "Critical Subject to Come: Nachträglichkeit, Emergence, and Culture."
  Thomas Rickert, Purdue University
  
• "Psychoanalysis, the Institution, and the Fragmented Disciplinary Subject."
  Matthew Abraham, Purdue University
  
• "From Liberal Theory to Conservative Praxis: Psychoanalysis, Capitalism and the Complicity of Oedipus."
  Todd Hoffman, Purdue University

  4:00-5:00
  Plenary Address (Russell House Theater)
  Chair: Greg Forter, Univeristy of South Carolina.
  Kaja Silverman, University of California at Berkeley

  Saturday, February15

  5. 9:00-10:30
  A. Stripping Psychoanalysis: Exotic Dance and Identities (Gambrell 428)
  Chair: Michael Uebel, University of Kentucky
  

• "Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Love, Masochism and Exotic Dance."        
  R. Danielle Egan, St. Lawrence University
  
• "Marriage, Monogamy and Fantasy in Strip Clubs."
  Katherine Frank, College of the Atlantic
  
• "She Strips to Conquer: The Allure of Exotic Dance."
  Michael Uebel, University of Kentucky

  B. Psychoanalysis and Premodernity (Gambrell 402)
  Chair: David Larmour, Texas Tech University
  

• "Petronius, Fellini, and the Collapse of History."
  Holly Haynes, New York University
  
• "Unheeded Prophecies and Unconscious Knowledge."
  Victoria Wohl, Ohio State University
  
• "The Madness of Subjects and Objects: Psychoanalysis, Historical Relevance, and the Middle English Romance."
  Theresa Ostrom, University of Florida

  C. Psychoanalysis and Post-War French Thought (Gambrell 431)
  Chair: Mary Ann Witt, North Carolina State University
  

• "Hélène Cixous: In the Name of the Orange."
  Freeman G. Henry, University of South Carolina
  
• "Hearing or Seeing ? Foucault's dilemma."
  Pascal Michon, Collège Internationale de Philosophie
  
• "Beauvoir, Lacan, and The Dialectic of Number."
  Eleanor Kaufman, University of Virginia

  11:00-12:00
  Plenary Address (Gambrell 428)
  Chair: Philip Stewart, Duke University and University of South Carolina
  "From Femininity to Finitude: A Critique of the Concept of Castration"
  Toril Moi, Duke University

  12:00-2:00 Lunch

  6. 2:00-4:00
  A. Psychoanalysis and Literature (Gambrell 428)
  Chair: Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina
  

• "It Don't Mean a Thing if it Aint Got das Ding: The Desire of the Literary Analyst."
  Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina
  
• "Why is a Raven Unlike a Writing Desk?"
  Rivka Warshawsky, Paris France
  
• "Kafka Mourning Judgement."
  Katrin Pahl, Stanford University
  
• "Postcolonial Migrancy, Identity and the Coded Language of Objects: Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea."
  Brenda Cooper, University of Cape Town

  B. Sexuality and Identity (Gambrell 402)
  Chair: Ed Madden, University of South Carolina
  

• "Freud's Prehistory: Homosexuality, Primitivism, Psychoanalysis."
  Valerie Rohy, University of Vermont
  
• "Second Skin? Transsexualism, Image and Desire."
  Nancy Blake, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  
• "Fluid Identities: A Challenge to the Bedrock of Psychoanalysis?"
  Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California
  
• "Desire, Despair-and the Language is Leaving: Psychoanalysis and Sexual Subjectivity."
  Mary Anne Franks, Oxford University

  C. Nationalism and Ethical Communities (Gambrell 431)
  Chair: Meili Steele, University of South Carolina
  

• "Identification, Misrecognition, and Difference in Multicultural Communities: A Lacanian Analysis."
  Jean Wyatt, Occidental College
  
• "How to Kick Gently: Forgiveness and Aggression in the Time of Injustice."
  Lisa Farley, University of Toronto
  Sharon Sliwinski, York University
  
• "Passional Politics: Imagination and Imaginary from Spinoza to Castoriadis."     
  Caroline Williams, Queen Mary University of London
  
• "Signs of Desire: The Unbearable Bodies of Nationalism and Rape: Titus Andronicus, Savior, and Calling the Ghosts."
  Deneen Senasi, University of Alabama

  7:00  Final Reception (Claussens Inn)

  The organizers of the conference would like to extend grateful thanks to the South Carolina Humanities Council, the College of Liberal Arts, South Carolina Honors College, the Program in Comparative Literature, the Department of English, the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the Women Studies Program, and the Philosophy Department, without whose help this conference would not have been possible.

  We also wish to thank the following individuals: Atussa Hatami, who designed the poster and the website; Kay Clowney, who kept up with the massive correspondence; Mandy Bayer, graduate assistant in Comparative literature; and Noreen Doughty and Paulette Jimenez, administrative assistants extraordinaire in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.