Fwd: Re: CALL OF PAPERS FOR THE FIFTH PSYCHOANALYTIC CONFERENCE JANUARY 2018

[Anup Kumar Dhar]

From: "ashis roy" <fifthpsychoana...@gmail.com>
Date: 26-Aug-2017 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: CALL OF PAPERS FOR THE FIFTH PSYCHOANALYTIC CONFERENCE JANUARY 2018

Dear all

The date for the submission of papers has been extended to September 30,2017.

Kindly note the change. 

Warmly 

Ashis Roy 

On 12 Apr 2017 3:09 p.m., "ashis roy" <fifthpsychoanalyticconference@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear All, 

It is our pleasure to invite you to the Fifth  International Psychoanalytic Conference titled  ‘Psychoanalytic Explorations of Darkness in Culture and Clinic: An Indo-Italian Conversation’, organized by Centre of Psychotherapy and Clinical Research and School of Human Studies, AUD in collaboration with the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, The Delhi Chapter of Indian Psychoanalytic Society and Psychoanalysis India.

The Conference shall be held at India International Centre, New Delhi from 12th to 15th January, 2018. 

The Conference invites papers on the following themes:

• A meditation on darker forces residing within the psyche and in social systems

• Thoughts on the death instinct and its place in individual, social and collective life

• Reflections on the work of the negative - the absent, erased and forgotten

• Encountering pain and relating with darkness – portraits of psychic growth in suffering

• Mourning and its place in psychic life

• Psychoanalysis and spirituality

• Resonances between psychoanalysis and existentialism

• Eastern and Western imaginations in dialogue with darkness

• Cultural imaginations of death and dying

• Violence and rage

• The narcissism of capitalism – re-examining the psychic roots of greed, the need for accumulation, power and hoarding

• Pseudo-speciation and a concentrated study of defences (splitting, projection, dissociation, denial and projective identification) especially as they operate in group life

• Psychoanalytic reflections on “Othering” - race, caste, gender and class

Word limit for respective entries is 3000 words. Papers can be sent to fifthpsychoanalyticconference@gmail.com

A highlight of the Conference is the Sudhir Kakar Prize awarded to the best paper written by psychoanalytic scholars less than 40 years of age. The Sudhir Kakar Prize, awarded annually, was instituted on the 75th birthday of the renowned Indian psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar, whose writings have left an indelible mark on Indian and Trans-Cultural Psychoanalysis.

Participants who want their paper to be considered for the Sudhir Kakar Prize need to send in entries not less than 5000 words to sudhirkaka...@gmail.com

Last date of Submission for all entries is 1st September 1, 2017.

Regards,

Organising Team Members

Ashis Roy, Anshumita Pandey, Ashok Nagpal, Honey Oberoi Vahali