Parenting, gender, and sexual orientation are approached in a much wider manner than in Freud's time and the notion of diversity has become a hallmark feature of current approaches to sexuality. We feel that psychoanalysis must be able to respond to those changes. In particular, our emphasis is on the relationship between sexuality and sensuous pleasure, with the intention to sketch the possible directions that psychoanalytic scholarship can take to deal with present and future challenges.
Program
Monday, March 31 (Liikunta Building, L302)
10:00-10:15 Opening words
10:15-11:15 Bruce Reis (New York): "Men’s Fantasied Relation to Semen: The Fluid Medium to Alterity and Self-Transcendence"
11:15-12:00 Comment and general discussion: Joona Taipale
12:00-13:30 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Maria Lival-Juusela (Helsinki): "A History of Painful Affects. Traversing Psychoanalytic Landscapes of Homosexuality”
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30-16:15 Comment and general discussion: Timo Sampolahti
Tuesday, April 1 (Liikunta Building, L303)
10:00-11:00 Christine Kirchhoff (Berlin): "On the negativity of the beginning and the actuality of the old: Nachträglichkeit, object choice and the body"
11:00-11:45 Comment and general discussion: Joona Taipale
11:45-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:15 Eeva Pihlaja: “Laplanche’s enigma and communicating otherness creatively in caretaking”
14:15-14:45 Coffee
14:45-15:30 Comment and general discussion: TBA
