Atividade

94982 - Psychoanalysis and critical thinking

Período da turma: 03/02/2020 a 06/02/2020

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Descrição: Seminar 1:
Psychoanalysis, Politics and Society: What Remains Radical in
Psychoanalysis?

This seminar is concerned with the contribution that psychoanalysis has
made to progressive political thought. It argues that despite, alongside or in
tension with the more conservative, psychologically ‘reductive’ side of
psychoanalytic politics, there is a very challenging radical strand. On the
whole, once the Berlin Institute of Psychoanalysis was destroyed by Nazism,
it found its strongholds outside the main psychoanalytic movement, for
example in the works of philosophers and social theorists from Herbert
Marcuse to Judith Butler; and this is one of the issues that needs to be
addressed as part of the question of whether this radicalism is truly
‘psychoanalytic’. Starting with Freud, and taking seriously the contribution
of social theorists influenced by Klein and Lacan, the seminar suggests that
psychoanalysis offers a vocabulary for, and orientation towards, subjectivity
that is not otherwise highly developed in political thought.


Seminar 2:
Psychoanalysis and Jewish ‘barbarism’.
In some recent work on decolonization, there has been an attempt to claim
some Jewish writers of the twentieth century as participating in a rethinking
of ‘barbarism’ that aligns Jewish thought with the decolonial movement.
This is problematic, especially because post-Holocaust and Zionist discourses
have positioned Jews normatively as part of European ‘civilization’ opposed
to barbarism. Nevertheless, the reclaiming of a radical Jewish tradition allied
with other movements of the oppressed may provide resources for barbaric
thinking, using ‘barbaric’ here in the positive sense to mean that which
confronts the hegemony of European colonial thought. The relative absence
of psychoanalysis from this discussion is striking. Given the place of
psychoanalysis both as a ‘colonial’ discipline and as a contributor to critical
and postcolonial thought, can it be seen in the positive tradition of Jewish
barbarism? This session offers an account of Jewish barbaric possibilities and
suggests ways in which psychoanalysis might connect with them.

Seminar 3:
Psychosocial studies with psychoanalysis
Psychosocial studies is methodologically and theoretically diverse, drawing
on a wide range of intellectual resources. However, psychoanalysis has often
taken a privileged position within this diversity, because of its welldeveloped conceptual vocabulary that can be put to use to theorise the
psychosocial subject. Its practices have become a model for some aspects of
psychosocial work, especially in relation to its focus on intense study of
individuals, its explicit engagement with ethical relations, and its traversing
of disciplinary boundaries across the arts, humanities and social sciences. On
the other hand, this possible hegemony of psychoanalytic discourse
produces tensions with some other ‘trans’ components of the psychosocial
studies enterprise such as postcolonial and queer studies. This ‘dispute’ also
governs debates about the type of psychoanalysis that might be most
appropriate for psychosocial studies. The debate about the place of
psychoanalysis in psychosocial studies is radically different from the
longstanding question of the scientific status of psychoanalysis; here, the
issue is not whether psychoanalysis is ‘objective’ and empirically
established, but rather whether and how it can be deployed as an ethical
practice in the context of an emergent area of socially progressive critical
research. The claim will be made that the engagement between
psychoanalysis and its psychosocial critics is fundamentally productive. Even
though it generates real tensions, these tensions are necessary and
significant, reflecting genuine struggles over how best to understand the
socially constructed human subject.

Seminar 4:
(In)security ‘Security’ is a nodal point for the state and the citizen. This seminar will
explore security and insecurity as psychosocial states: states of feeling which
have a social resonance and are shaped by social factors and discourses that
increase and decrease precarity. These states of security and insecurity are
formed by affect, giving them cogency and making them dynamic and causal
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in their operations. The psychoanalytic literature on (in)security deriving
from the ‘British’ tradition of Winnicott and the sociological work that has
stemmed from that, offer insights into the conditions that give rise to
security of ‘selfhood’ and their links with issues of risk and trust, as well as
paranoia and fears actively generated by the state, media and other
institutional actors. In recent years this has been consolidated into notions
such as the ‘neurotic citizen’ to describe ways in which management of
anxiety has become a key concern of social policy. Could it be that the focus
on security is not just a reflection of an underlying insecure state, but a
cause of it?


Bibliografia:

Seminar 1:

Frosh, S. (1999) The Politics of Psychoanalysis. London: Palgrave.
Marcuse, H. (1955) Eros and Civilization. Boston: Beacon Press.
Zaretsky, E. (2015) Political Freud. New York: Columbia University Press.

Seminar 2:

Arendt, H. (1944) The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition. In J. Kohn and
R. Feldman (eds) (2007) Hannah Arendt: The Jewish Writings. New York:
Schocken.
Cheyette, B. (2013) Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial
Writing and the Nightmare of History. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Damousi, J. and Plotkin, M. (eds.) (2012) Psychoanalysis and Politics:
Histories of Psychoanalysis under conditions of restricted political
freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Slabodsky, S. (2014) Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric
Thinking. London: Palgrave.
Stonebridge, L. (2019) Placeless People: Writing, Rights and refugees. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Seminar 3:

Frosh, S. and Baraitser, L. (2008) Psychoanalysis and Psychosocial
Studies. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 13, 346–365. Greedharry, A. (2008) Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis. London:
Palgrave.
Wetherell, M. (2012) Affect and Emotion: A New Social Science
Understanding. London: Sage.

Seminar 4:

Berlant, L. (2011) Cruel Optimism. Durham and London: Duke University
Press.
Isin, E. (2004). The Neurotic Citizen. Citizenship Studies, 8, 217–235.
Walsh, J. (2014) Narcissism and Its Discontents. London: Palgrave.

Carga Horária:

12 horas
Tipo: Obrigatória
Vagas oferecidas: 100
 
Ministrantes: Stephen Frosh


 
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