Luis Buñuel: Aesthetics of the Irrational | Institute of Contemporary Arts
A retrospective of the films of Luis Buñuel (1900–1983), celebrating his genius, irreverence and unique poetic style.
https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/seasons/luis-bunuel-aesthetics-irrational
‘…psychoanalysis would not have been what it was (any more than so many other things) if E-mail, for example, had existed. And in the future it will no longer be what Freud and so many psychoanalysts have anticipated, from the moment E-mail, for example, became possible.’
— Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (1995)
‘When can a screen relation substitute for the experience of being bodies together? When can it not?’
— Tod Essig, Foreword to Gillian Isaacs Russell, Screen Relations: The Limits of Computer-Mediated Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (2015)
Can you ‘do psychoanalysis’ by telephone, Skype, email? As Russell points out in her recent Screen Relations, the questions – fuelled by what she describes as ‘enchantment with technology, fear of professional obsolescence, and economic anxiety’ – are now urgent for the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Questions of environment, contact, silence, connection, reliability, presence, access, embodiment, equality and diversity, professional survival … the list could go on. Continue reading
Leo Bersani, Force in Progress
Wednesday 7 October, Fulton A Lecture Theatre, 5-7 p.m.
School of English Graduate Colloquium
(Organized and sponsored by the Centre for Creative and Critical Thought, in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence)
All are welcome
Leo Bersani is currently Professor in the Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, and Emeritus Professor in the Department of French, University of California Berkeley. He is the author of seventeen books, including The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art (1986),The Culture of Redemption (1990), Homos (1995), Intimacies (co-authored with Adam Phillips, 2008), Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays (2010), and Thoughts and Things (2015)
Bersani’s lecture at Sussex will range across various aspects of psychoanalysis, philosophy, film and literature, including the work of Lacan, D.H. Lawrence and Samuel Beckett, Kimberly Peirce’s Boys Don’t Cry and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia.
Here’s an earlier psychoanalytically inflected lecture by Professor Bersani.
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Pencil and Crayon Drawing 6 June 1941 By: “Richard”
From: Melanie Klein
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