Symposium
Psychoanalysis and its Discontents: Reality, Media, and the Subject
April 22, 2023
Saturday
9:00 am – 5:30 pm
010 East Pyne
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Sponsored by the Department of German; Department of Art and Archaeology; Program in Media and Modernity; School of Architecture.
Morning Start
9:00 – 9:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
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Introduction
9:30 – 9:45 am
Introductory Remarks
Brigid Doherty
Princeton University
Objects
9:45 – 11:00 am
Formal Syntax and Psychoanalytic Semantics: Two Models of Creativity at the Chicago Bauhaus
Andrew Kensett
Narrating Dreams: Ingmar Bergman’s Psychoanalysis through Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Apparatus
Xinyu Chen
Freud, Iconoclasm, and the Arbitrary Object
Alexandra Germer
Psychoanalysis and Art: Exploring the Unconscious in a Non-Clinical Setting
Nora Stumpfögger
Moderator
Xiaoyao Guo
Coffee Break
11:00 pm – 11:15 am
Break Session
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Shadows
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
The Stumbling Block of Exchange: Dürer, Freud, Sohn-Rethel
Florian Endres
Being in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: The Cases of Rei Ayanami and Lain Iwakura
Julia Curl
Returns: Julien Nguyen’s Anti-Melancholic Practice
Drew Pugliese
Moderator
Marie-Louise James
Keynote Lecture
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Beauty and the Beast: Faith in the Aesthetic Development
DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College
Coffee Break
3:00 – 3:15 pm
Break Session
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Bodies
3:15 – 4:15 pm
Free and Frank Entry to Visitors: Asylum Visitation in Maura Lopes Cançado’s Hospício é Deus
Dylan Blau Edelstein
Around the Edges of the Triangle: Sanja Iveković’s Trokut
Holly Bushman
The Black Unconscious in Architecture
Jeyda Muhammad
Moderator
Amon Pierson
Coffee Break
4:15 – 4:30 pm
Break Session
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Response and Roundtable
4:30 – 5:30 pm
Discussion
Ben Kafka
New York University with speakers and moderators
Lower Hyphen
5:30 pm
Reception
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