A Study Weekend in New York City**
THE ART OF MADNESS**April 27-29, 2012, Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Columbus Ave, MacMahon Hall, Room 109.
Madness***a term reintroduced in our times as if it were sorely needed***is not merely a doubling of the coldly clinical psychosis. While clearly-diagnosed psychosis is sequestered in hospitals or is nowadays more often contained and controlled in a private regimen of prescriptions and pills, madness is more public, more fluid, more threatening. It is measured only against the social order that somehow always fails to exclude it. It crops up everywhere. Few of us are psychotic, but we all feel at times that we may be a bit mad. If madness is a disturbance in the social, a social disorder that we fear, how strange, then, that one of its products should be art, offered up to the public as if to put madness on display. How strange that the social order accepts and accommodates the art of madness and the madness of art. Our study days will consider this strangeness.
Scheduled to speak:
Richard Boothby, Nestor Braunstein, Shanna Carlson, Fred Casale, Marilyn Charles, Dan Collins, Olga Cox-Cameron, Guy Dana, Todd Dean, Martine Fourr**, Michael Garfinkle, Patricia Gherovici, Martin Harries, Reine Henaff-Cohen, Shannon Kelly, Juliet MacCannell, Paola Mieli, Genevieve Morel, Chrysanthi Nigianni, Dany Nobus, Ray O***Neill, Jean-Michel Rabate, Tom Ratekin, Bill Richardson, Ed Robins, Mark Stafford, Manya Steinkoler, Barbara Tholfsen, Jamieson Webster, Stephen Whitworth, Angela Woods.
**For information and registration visit**
www.apwonline.org
Friday, April 27
1:30 PM: Registration
1:50 *** 2:00 PM Welcome: Dan Collins and Manya Steinkoler
2:00 *** 3:15 PM Panel:
Dan Collins, APW: ***Sinthome, Personality, and Creativity***
Manya Steinkoler, CUNY: ***A Lacanian Reading of a Psychotic Narrative: ***Le Jeu de Dieu-Serpent Mehen******
Respondent: Jamieson Webster, New York
3:15 *** 4:45 PM Panel: ***What***s Love Got to do with It?***
Ray O***Neill, Dublin:
******You might as well face it, you***re addicted to Love***: Shame and Sexual Addiction in the 21st Century***
Shannon Kelly, Duquesne University: ***Psychoanalysis as the Art of Madness***
Shanna Carlson, Cornell University: ***Assuming Absence: On the Hysteric***s Uncertainty***
Respondents: Sunday Study Group on Madness
4:45 *** 5:00 Coffee 5:00 *** 6:15 Paper:
Marilyn Charles, Austen Riggs: ***Standing Outside the Gates*** Respondent: Manya Steinkoler, CUNY
6:15 *** 7:30 PM Paper:
Genevieve Morel, Paris: ***Ilse***s Case:
The Sinthome as Inventing a New Sexual Identity: To be or not to be a Parent***
Respondent: Patricia Gherovici
Saturday, April 28
8:30 *** 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 *** 10:15 AM Paper:
N**stor Braunstein, Mexico: ***Erothanatism or Gozologia*** Respondents: Manya Steinkoler, CUNY, and Bill Richardson, Boston
10:15 *** 10:30 AM Coffee
10:30 *** 11:45 AM Clinical Case Presentation:
Todd Dean, St Louis: ***The Crevasse of Each Experience***
Discussants: Genevieve Morel, Paris; Marilyn Charles, Austin Riggs; Ed Robins, New York; Bill Richardson, Boston
11:45 *** 1:00 PM Paper:
Guy Dana, Paris: ***The Treatment of the Psychoses: Confronting the Inconsistencies of Lalangue***
Respondent: Martin Harries, New York University
1:00 *** 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 *** 4:15 PM Panel:
Discontented: Quacks, Snakes, Cross-Dressing and Psychiatry
Jamieson Webster, New York:
***Transvestite Perversion and the Question of a Place for Diagnosis***
Barbara Tholfsen, Westchester: ***If it Quacks like a Duck . . .*** Reine Henaff-Cohen, Longjumeau:
***Can Art Cure the Unbehagen in Psychiatry?***
Respondents: Dany Nobus, Brunel University; Martine Fourr**, Paris and Dakar; Michael Garfinkle, New York 4:15 *** 4:30 PM Coffee
**4:30 *** 5:30 Paper:
Angela Woods, Durham University: ***Why Schizophrenia is Not Improvisational Jazz: The Use of Clinical Concepts in Cultural Theory***
Respondent: Dany Nobus, Brunel University
5:30 *** 6:45 PM Paper:
Ed Robins, New York: ***Madness as Losing your Soul: From Achilles to Macbeth***
Respondent: N**stor Braunstein, Mexico
Sunday April 29
9:15 *** 9:45 AM Breakfast
9:45 *** 10:45 AM Paper:
Martine Fourr**, Paris and Dakar: ***A Psychoanalytic Encounter in a Life of Madness***
Respondent: Mark Stafford, psychoanalyst, New York
10:45 *** 1:00 PM Panel: The Mad Kiss of Culture
Moderator: Juliet Flower MacCannell, UC Irvine
Olga Cox Cameron, Dublin: ***Madness or Mimesis? Narrative Impossibility in the Novels of Samuel Beckett and Flann O***Brien***
Chrysanthi Nigianni, CUNY: ***Butterfly Kiss: from the Paranoia of Being to the Schizophrenia of Becoming Lesbian***
Tom Ratekin, Washington D.C.: ***The Art of Sinthome in American Beauty***
Stephen Whitworth, Bloomsburg University:
***Spell it Wrong to Read it Right: Psychosis, Crashaw and the Baroque Science of the Letter***
Fred Casale, Hunter School of Social Work: ***Digital Madness*****
**1:00 *** 1:45 PM Lunch (on premises $15)
1:45 *** 3:00 PM Paper:
Juliet Flower MacCannell, UC Irvine:
***The Writing Ego: Woolf, Joyce and the “Mad” Subject***
Respondent: Jean-Michel Rabat**, University of Pennsylvania
3:00 *** 4:15 PM Paper:
Paola Mieli, New York: ***Ordinary Madness: Normality and Segregation: The Work of Primo Levi***
Respondent: Richard Boothby, Loyola University
4:15 *** 5:30 PM Paper:
Patricia Gherovici, Philadelphia:
***Techknots: From Symptom to Sinthome, a Clinical Voyage***
Respondent: Guy Dana, Paris
5:30 *** 6:45 PM Paper:
Dany Nobus, Brunel University: ***Between Sublimation and Suppletion: On the Madness of Creation and the Creation of Madness***
Respondent: Dan Collins, APW