Deviating with and from Freud: Discussions with George Makari (21 March 2019)

"George Makari’s Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis is a brilliant foregrounding of Freud as a cunning and careful editor, who cites, edits, and deviates from foregoing discourses—most importantly, Charcot—thereby drawing upon their strengths, yet creating a new psychiatric and psychological discourse: “psychoanalysis” as he puts it.

Taking a cue from Makari, this workshop also aims to do the same thing about Freud: re-interpreting his language in a variety of historical contexts and revealing previously undiscussed aspects and possibilities of his theories. This session aims to be a re-historicization and re-evaluation of psychoanalysis as a radical “anti-psychology”—a persistent and daring resistance to modern institutionalizations of the human “mind”—in British, French, American, and Central-European contexts."

Speakers:
George Makari (Cornell University)
Kazuyuki Hara (University of Tokyo)
Tomoko Sato (Kanazawa University)
Barnaby Ralph (Seikei University)

Chair and speaker: 
Fuhito Endo (Seikei University)

21 March 2019: 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Seikei University, Tokyo
Building 10, 2nd Meeting Room on the 2nd Floor

Location, Access, and Campus Map here

*This workshop is financially supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science（基盤研 究(B)「英国モダニズムにおける反心理学の系譜に関する学際的かつ国際的研究」18H00653）