Program 2018 Lacan Écrits Conference

21-22 September
Ghent University

Friday 21 september

09.00 – 09.30:

Introduction Conference Écrits (Stijn Vanheule, Ghent University)

09.30 -10.30:

Keynote Dany Nobus (Brunel University)

Lacan with Sade: On Writing as Object of Desire
Chair: Stijn Vanheule (Ghent University)

10.30 – 11.00: coffee break

11.00 – 12.30: parallel sessions (5 rooms - 3 papers/20 min + discussion)

PANEL TITLE
Bart Rabaey (Private Practice, Belgium)
The Subject and the Lie: From méconnaissance to mensonge

1 Constance De Meulder (Private Practice, Belgium)

The Subject and the Lie: Lacan’s méconnaissance and Sartre’s
Chair: mauvaise foi
Mostafa
Fani
Dimitri Van Puymbroeck (Private Practice, Belgium)
The Subject and the Lie: Clinical Implications of Lacan’s L-schema

Gabriel Tupinambá (PUC-Rio, Brazil)

Modeling and its Vicissitudes: A Critique of Lacanian Ideology

2 Dominiek Hoens (Erasmus University College, Belgium)

The Real Thing

Cindy Zeiher (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

What Does Science do to the Subject?
Mattias Desmet (Ghent University, Belgium)
A Walk on the Graph
3
Chair:
Eline Trenson (Ghent University, Belgium)
Rosa De
The Importance of Being Allowed to Suffer – A Clinical Case
Geest
Ellen Bisschop (Ghent University, Belgium)
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21-22 September
Ghent University

Wendy Dossche ((Ghent University, Belgium)

The Subversion of the Subject: A Clinical Reading

David Schrans (Ghent University, Belgium)
The Birth of the Symbolic

4 Marco Ferrari (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)

To use Hegel’s term against and with him. Towards a Lacanian
(underlying) Hegelianism

Adrian Ortiz (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentinia)

À propos d’Interventions sur le transfert
Hub Zwart (Radboud Universiteit, the Netherlands)
The four discourses and the Möbius-Ring: Lacan’s Diagnostics of
Contemporary Technoscience LU
5
NC
Millar Isabel (Kingston School of Art, UK) HB
Algorithmic Extimacy: Enjoyment in the Age of Ordinary Psychosis
RE
Jan de Vos (Independent researcher, Belgium) AK
Interpassivity going digital. Or, will object a be digitalized?
13.
30-14.30: parallel sessions (5 rooms - 3 papers/20 min + discussion)

PANEL TITLE
Damien Scolari (Côte d’Azur University, France)
A Lacanian Rereading of Beckett’s Work

Josephine Sharoni (University of Kent, UK)

1
Écrits and Literature: The Freudian Thing and Fantasy of Fiction
Chair: Jan
Devos
Alexander Venetis (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
The “Occulted Signifier”: Jacques Lacan’s Critique of André
Breton’s Notion of the Metaphor
Maysa Puccinelli (Brasilia University, Brazil)
Cinéma dans le miroir: Le stade du mirroir comme formateur du récit

2 Ronald Bahamondes Àlvarez (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile)

Chair: Hub Some Reflections on Femininity and the Mirror Stage
Zwart
Dana Tor (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Stepping out of the Mirror: The Role of Shifters in Anne Sexton’s
Poem “The Double Image”
Marleen Stevens & Dirk Bryssinck (Villa Voortman, Belgium)
3
On the Pitfalls and Perils of Publishing/Poubellication: some lessons
Chair:
from the field
Joachim
Cauwe
Mahitosh Mandal (Presidency University, India)
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21-22 September
Ghent University

Academic Pedagogy versus Clinical Praxis: A Critique of the Concept of

“Teaching” in Lacan

Deniz Coral (University of Minnesota, USA)

Écrits and the Library; or, the Purloined Book
Dries Dulsster (Ghent University, Belgium)
Function and Field: A Qualitative Study
4
Chair:
Matthew Oyer (Icahn School of Medicine, USA)
Isabel
Funhouse Mirrors: Lacan and the Concept and Treatment of Personality
Millar
Amanda Diserholt (Edinburg Napier University, UK) 14.
Fatigue as the Unconscious Refusal of the Other’s Demand
Grzegorz Michalik (Maria Curie-Slodowksa University, Poland)
45-
Knowledge and Truth: Towards Psychoanalytic Epistemology 15.
45:
Alma Buholzer (Kingston University London, UK)
5 Suture, the Rational and the Real: A Reading of Lacan’s “Science and
Truth”
Ke
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te
Aino-Marjatta Mäki (Kingston University, UK) Ad
Psychoanalysis After Finitude
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n Johnston (University of New Mexico, USA)
God is Undead: The Invisible Hand Rises from The Grave
Chair: Ariane Bazan (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

15.45-16.45:

Keynote Patricia Gherovici (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Dr. Lacan, we have a situation here! 62 Years of Resistance
Chair: Reitske Meganck (Ghent University)

16.45-17.15: coffee break

17.15- 18.00:

Keynote Bruce Fink (private practice, USA & France)

What Makes Translating Lacan so Difficult

20.00: diner with party afterwards

Saturday 22 september
Program 2018 Lacan Écrits Conference
21-22 September
Ghent University

10.00-11.00:

Keynote Paul Verhaeghe (Ghent University)

On the Position of the Unconscious
Chair: Calum Neill (Edinburgh Napier University)

11.00-11.30: coffee break

11.30-13.00: parallel sessions (5 rooms - 3 papers/20 min + discussion)

PANEL TITLE
Gregory A. Trotter (Marquette University, USA)
Realism and Unconscious Structure in Sartre and Lacan

1 Gavin Rae (Universidad Carlos II de Madrid, Spain)

Questioning the Phallus: Jacques Lacan and Judith Butler

Jan Simončič (Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Slovenia)

Partisans of Psychoanalysis
Carlos Gómez-Camarena (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico)
Psychoanalysis as Science of the Singular : The Logical Foundations of
Science in the First Lacan and its Resonances with the Last Lacan
2
Chair: Emma Ingala (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Oliver Lacan’s Transcendental Philosophy: Between the Singular and the
Harris Universal

Samo Tomsic (Humboldt-Universität, Germany)

Critical Epistemology and The Problem of Resistance
Antoni Grzybowski (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Taking Responsibility for the Presence of the Unconscious: Ethics of
Psychoanalytic Practice in the “Position of the Unconscious”
3
Rodrigo Farías Rivas (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
Chair:
The Death Drive Écrit: From the Aporetics of the Biological to the
Loren Dent
Challenges of the Ethical

Giacomo Croci (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

Desire and Second-Natural Life: Lacan and Post-Analytic Thought
Chenyang Wang (Birckbeck University, UK)
Time Against Logic: Real Time as a Critique of Intersubjectivity in
Lacan’s “Logical Time” Essay
4
Arka Chattopdhyay (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
Logical Space in Lacan’s Purloined Letter

Rosa De Geest (Ghent University, Belgium)

Time Limited Therapy vs Temps Logique
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21-22 September
Ghent University

Sigi Jöttkandt (UNSW, Australia)

Post-interpretation and the Climate Change Imaginary: Nabokov’s
5 Lettrocalamity
Chair:
Tamar Keren Shafir (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Gerstenhabe The Function and Field of Language and the Poetics of Mourning
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Paul Earlie (University of Bristol, UK)
Psychoanalysis and Rhetoric: From Freud to Lacan

LUNCHBREAK

14.00- 15.00 parallel sessions (5 rooms - 3 papers/20 min + discussion)

PANEL TITLE
Laura Chernaik (Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, UK)
1 Body Symptoms as Return in the Real
Chair:
Junior Deborah Klajnman (Université Côte d’Azur, France)
Ingouf The Extraction of the Object and the Notion of Psychic Reality in
Neurosis and Psychosis
Program 2018 Lacan Écrits Conference
21-22 September
Ghent University

Alireza Taheri (Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Canada)

Specter of Madness: On the Identity-in-Difference of Insanity and
Being-Human
Evi Verbeke (Ghent University, Belgium)
Lacan on Agressiveness
2
Goedele Hermans (Ghent University, Belgium)
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Pietro Bianchi (Duke University, USA)
The Killing of a Sacred Thing. On Verneinung, Negation and Other
(Mathematical) Related Matters
3
Hilda Fernandez Alvarez (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
From the Signifier to the Letter: The Process of Residual Inscription

Cathrine Bjørnholt Michaelsen (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

The Precariousness of Reality
Loren Dent (Lenox Hill Hospital, USA)
The Tripe Butcher

Diego Semerene (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

4
Crafting The Impenetrable Body All Over Again: Digital Masculinity as
Aggressive Response to Trauma
Chair: Sigi
Jöttkandt
Nicol Thomas (Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis, Australia)
What’s Lack Got to Do with it? Deus-ex-Machina and the Betrayal of
Desire

Oliver Harris (Institute of Continuing Education Cambridge, UK)

15.
Antiquity in the Écrits 00-
5
15.
Tamar Gerstenhaber (Tel Aviv University, Israel) 15:
Upon the Wounded Hour
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fee break

15u15- 16.15:

Keynote Ed Pluth (California State University, USA)

Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and the Subject of Science
Chair: Mattias Desmet (Ghent University)

16.15-17.15:

Keynote Eve Watson (IICP College, Ireland)

The Shine of Absences: Lacan’s Remarks on the Feminine in the Fifties
Chair: Hilda Fernandez Alvarez (Simon Fraser University)