CFP: The Desire of the Analysts: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism (Ferbruary 13-15, 2003)

Fifth Annual
University of South Carolina Comparative Literature Conference


"The Desire of the Analysts:
Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism
in the Twenty-First Century"

Ferbruary 13-15, 2003

Keynote Speaker: Slavoj Zizek (Ljubljana)
Plenary Speakers: Julia Kristeva (Paris VII)
               Toril Moi (Duke)
               Kaja Silverman (Berkeley)


Why do we continue to desire psychoanalysis?  What is the nature of that
desire?  What can psychoanalysis teach us about the social arrangements of
our increasingly globalized world, and especially, about the psychic origins
of our most pressing social problems (racism, sexism, homophobia,
nationalistic violence, terrorism, genocide)?  Do psychoanalytic theories
have anything to say about the highly "dispersed" identities of new
information technologies?

Presentations should be broadly interdisciplinary. The conference will end
with a roundtable in which we try collectively to pull together the threads
of our discussion-and to assess where our desires have led us.  We plan to
publish selected papers from the conference in a collection of essays with a
major university press.

Please send abstracts of 20-minute papers by 30 September 2002 to: Paul
Allen Miller, Chair, Comparative Literature Program, Humanities Building,
Columbia, SC 29208.

For updated information, see our website:
http://www.cla.sc.edu/CPLT/activities/5thannucon.html

Sponsored by the University of South Carolina College of Liberal Arts,
Program in Comparative Literature, Department of English and associated
departments and programs.