[NIS_GS:] CFP: Psychoanalysis and the Human (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)

American Comparative Literature Association Conference 2006
(Princeton University, March 23-26)
Seminar-panel
"Psychoanalysis and the Human"

Psychoanalysis has thoroughly transformed the traditional concept of
the human. The psychoanalytic findings, such as the discovery of the
unconscious, the intersubjective figuration of the self, the subject▓s
embeddedness in language, to name a few, continue to challenge any
narrow or fixating conceptualization of what it means to be a human. In addition,
the new visibility escorted to mental illnesses serves as a powerful
corrective to the forcefully unifying vision of the self. These issues transform
the social apprehension of the human as much as its aesthetic figuration.
We invite proposals that deal with, but are not limited to the following set of questions:

-Freudian reconceptualization of the human;

-object-relational mapping of the human;

-Lacanian analysis of the subject;

-subjectivity as intersubjectivity

-corrective to the notion of the human presented by the states such as melancholia, hysteria, paranoia;

-(post) modern ⌠human condition■ in psychoanalytic terms;

-dynamic of mental processes in aesthetic production, psychoanalytic
theory and practice;

-literary refigurations of the human based upon psychoanalytic
insights;

-mental illness and its literary representation.

The paper proposals (maximum 250 words) should be submitted directly
through the ACLA site:
http://webscript.princeton.edu/~acla06/site/?page_id=4.
All inquiries may be directed to:
Sanja Bahun-Radunovic, email:
bahunic@rci.rutgers.edu.
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