BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CiviCRM//NONSGML CiviEvent iCal//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20270227T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:CiviCRM_EventID_55_a6423a52ba686284ea3f76b9c35e7af4@austinpsychoanalytic.org SUMMARY:Meditation on origins: Reflections on autobiograph y\, genealogy and encounters with the Other in sub ject formation X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“And what about your origins? Tell us about them \, it must be fascinating!” Blundering fools never fail to ask the question. Their surface kindness hides the sticky clumsiness that so exasperates th e foreigner.
\n -Julia Kristeva

All of u s\, readers and writers\, are bereft when criticis m remains too polite or too fearful to notice a di srupting darkness before its eyes.
\n -Toni M orrison

Dr. Michael O'Loughlin h as devoted considerable time in his writing to aut obiographical exploration of his own subject forma tion and the complexity of his status as an exile from Ireland. He will begin by sharing excerpts fr om his writings—and particularly from an interview with his mother—illustrating the ancestral\, soci ohistorical\, and emotional occlusions that lay th e foundation for his being. Is it possible\, Wiegm an wonders\, to tell a story that exceeds the boun dary of the personal\, and transcends "idioms of t he ordinary" (p. 6)? Can we trouble our own lived experiences in ways that shed light on the sociopo litical formation of our subjectivities? He will l ink this work to a long tradition in hauntology an d genealogy (e.g.\, Edward Emery\, Avery Gordon\, Abraham & Torok\, Davoine & Gaudillière\, Jacques Derrida\, Haydee Faimberg\, Anne Ancelin Schűtzenb erger) that illustrates the sociohistorical consti tutedness of subject formation. Nicholas Rand sugg ests provocatively that an analysis is necessarily "an analysis in absentia of several generations." He will then move back to autobiography to situat e his thinking about encountering the Other\, conf ronting particularly the whiteness of his own raci al formation\, and the situatedness of that whiten ess in both colonial and socioeconomic contexts. I f\, as Claudia Tate suggests\, psychoanalysis func tions "as a writing of the ethnicity of the White western psyche\," we have much work to do to uncon ceal these processes and work toward a more emanci patory and inclusive psychoanalysis. In his conclu ding section\, he will explore the possibility of what Judith Butler calls "giving an account of one self\," examining larger societal structures such as racialized capitalism and neoliberalism in subj ect formation\, drawing particularly on Butler as well as Suely Rolnik and Achille Mbembe to invite discussion of how our work might enhance creativit y\, and the potential for freedom.

\n DESCRIPTION:“And what about your origins? Tell us about them\, it must be fascinating!” Blundering fools never f ail to ask the question. Their surface kindness hi des the sticky clumsiness that so exasperates the foreigner.\n \n -Julia Kristeva\n \n \n All of us\ , readers and writers\, are bereft when criticism remains too polite or too fearful to notice a disr upting darkness before its eyes.\n \n -Toni Morris on\n \n \n Dr. Michael O'Loughlin has devoted cons iderable time in his writing to autobiographical e xploration of his own subject formation and the co mplexity of his status as an exile from Ireland. H e will begin by sharing excerpts from his writings —and particularly from an interview with his mothe r—illustrating the ancestral\, sociohistorical\, a nd emotional occlusions that lay the foundation fo r his being. Is it possible\, Wiegman wonders\, to tell a story that exceeds the boundary of the per sonal\, and transcends "idioms of the ordinary" (p . 6)? Can we trouble our own lived experiences in ways that shed light on the sociopolitical formati on of our subjectivities? He will link this work t o a long tradition in hauntology and genealogy (e. g.\, Edward Emery\, Avery Gordon\, Abraham & Torok \, Davoine & Gaudillière\, Jacques Derrida\, Hayde e Faimberg\, Anne Ancelin Schűtzenberger) that ill ustrates the sociohistorical constitutedness of su bject formation. Nicholas Rand suggests provocativ ely that an analysis is necessarily "an analysis i n absentia of several generations." He will then m ove back to autobiography to situate his thinking about encountering the Other\, confronting particu larly the whiteness of his own racial formation\, and the situatedness of that whiteness in both col onial and socioeconomic contexts. If\, as Claudia Tate suggests\, psychoanalysis functions "as a wri ting of the ethnicity of the White western psyche\ ," we have much work to do to unconceal these proc esses and work toward a more emancipatory and incl usive psychoanalysis. In his concluding section\, he will explore the possibility of what Judith But ler calls "giving an account of oneself\," examini ng larger societal structures such as racialized c apitalism and neoliberalism in subject formation\, drawing particularly on Butler as well as Suely R olnik and Achille Mbembe to invite discussion of h ow our work might enhance creativity\, and the pot ential for freedom.\n \n \n CATEGORIES:Conference CALSCALE:GREGORIAN DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20270227T090000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270227T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270227T121500 LOCATION:Live via Zoom\n URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=55 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR