[csaa-forum] Conference on psychoanalysis and cinema

[Anna Gibbs]

THE COUCH AND THE SILVER SCREEN
 
LITERATURE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS CONFERENCE 2007
NOVEMBER 10, 2007
THE WRITERS¹ CENTRE NSW.
 
The biannual conference of the Literature and Psychoanalysis Association
will be held on November 10, 2007 at the Writers¹ Centre NSW in the grounds
of Callan Park, Rozelle. The topic of this year¹s conference is ŒThe Couch
and the Silver Screen¹.
 
Cinema, like literature, is a medium which can express issues that also
manifest in the psychoanalytic setting.  Speakers will address the
multiplicity of ways in which cinema and psychoanalysis are related.  This
will include:  the content of films which illuminate or formulate
psychoanalytic themes; the techniques and structures of film which are
similar to unconscious processes (dreams etc); what psychoanalysis can learn
from cinema and vice versa; the role of  the participant/observer/audience;
transference and counter-transference in the cinema experience; image, music
and affect in cinema.
 
Conference Registration is $70 ($40 concession) and  includes morning and
afternoon tea and light lunch.  We would appreciate registration by 30
October to help plan the catering.   Please send your registration (cheques
made payable to Literature and Psychoanalysis Conference) to:
 
Dr. John McClean
422 Darling Street
Balmain, NSW 2041
 

THE COUCH AND THE SILVER SCREEN CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 
9.30  Registration and Coffee
 
10.00  KEYNOTE ADDRESS:  PROFESSOR PATRICK FUERY, Director of the Centre for
Medical Humanities, The University of Newcastle:  Œ²Preserving Error in the
Heart of Reality²:  Cinema, Knowledge, and Ethics in the Psychoanalytic
Moment¹.
 
Chair: Associate Professor Tom Burvill, Macquarie University.
 
11-11-30             Coffee
 
11.30-1   DR. ANDREW LEGGETT,   Poet, Psychiatrist and Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapist; Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of
Queensland and  Editor of the Australian Journal of Psychotherapy:  ŒLooking
Awry into the Place of Dreams in the Cinematic Work of  David Lynch¹
DR. JUDITH PICKERING, Analytic Psychotherapist and Psychoanalytic Couples
Therapist:  ³Blue Orfeo:  The Intersubjective Space¹
 
Chair:  Dr. Craig Powell, Poet and Psychoanalyst in Private Practice
  
1-2   LUNCH
 
2-3.30   DR KELLI FUERY,  Lecturer in Contemporary Visual Culture, School of
History of Art, Film, and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of
London and Media;  Media and Gender Studies, University of Sydney:  ŒThe
Tain of Transition:  Cinema as Transitional Object¹ (Specific reference will
be made to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep).
DR ROBIN TRUDA, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist:  ŒCelluloid Caesuras and the
Lives of Others¹
 
Chair:  Dr. John McClean, Psychoanalyst in Private Practice.
 
3.30  COFFEE
 
4-4.45  DR SUE GILLETT  Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist .¹²the Piano is Mine,
it¹s MineŠ² My (free associative) encounter with Jane Campion¹s The Piano,
Or, the Child in the Spectator¹
 
Chair: Professor Joan Kirkby, Macquarie University
 
4.45-5.30. Panel Discussion ,all speakers and audience.
 
Chair: Associate Professor Anna Gibbs, University of Western Sydney