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_56_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:\n

“And what about your origins? Tell us about t hem\, it must be fascinating!” Blundering fools ne ver fail to ask the question. Their surface kindne ss hides the sticky clumsiness that so exasperates the foreigner.
\n -Julia Kristeva

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All of us\, readers and writers\, are bereft when criticism remains too p olite or too fearful to notice a disrupting darkne ss before its eyes.
\n -Toni Morrison< /span>

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Dr. Michael O'Loughlin has devoted considerable time in his writing to autobiographi cal exploration of his own subject formation and t he complexity of his status as an exile from Irela nd. He will begin by sharing excerpts from his wri tings—and particularly from an interview with his mother—illustrating the ancestral\, sociohistorica l\, and emotional occlusions that lay the foundati on for his being. Is it possible\, Wiegman wonders \, to tell a story that exceeds the boundary of th e personal\, and transcends "idioms of the ordinar y" (p. 6)? Can we trouble our own lived experience s in ways that shed light on the sociopolitical fo rmation of our subjectivities? He will link this w ork to a long tradition in hauntology and genealog y (e.g.\, Edward Emery\, Avery Gordon\, Abraham & Torok\, Davoine & Gaudillière\, Jacques Derrida\, Haydee Faimberg\, Anne Ancelin Schűtzenberger) tha t illustrates the sociohistorical constitutedness of subject formation. Nicholas Rand suggests provo catively that an analysis is necessarily "an analy sis in absentia of several generations." He will t hen move back to autobiography to situate his thin king about encountering the Other\, confronting pa rticularly the whiteness of his own racial formati on\, and the situatedness of that whiteness in bot h colonial and socioeconomic contexts. If\, as Cla udia Tate suggests\, psychoanalysis functions "as a writing of the ethnicity of the White western ps yche\," we have much work to do to unconceal these processes and work toward a more emancipatory and inclusive psychoanalysis. In his concluding secti on\, he will explore the possibility of what Judit h Butler calls "giving an account of oneself\," ex amining larger societal structures such as raciali zed capitalism and neoliberalism in subject format ion\, drawing particularly on Butler as well as Su ely Rolnik and Achille Mbembe to invite discussion of how our work might enhance creativity\, and th e potential for freedom.

DESCRIPTION:\n “And what about your origins? Tell us about the m\, it must be fascinating!” Blundering fools neve r fail to ask the question. Their surface kindness hides the sticky clumsiness that so exasperates t he foreigner.\n \n -Julia Kristeva\n \n \n \n All of us\, readers and writers\, are bereft when crit icism remains too polite or too fearful to notice a disrupting darkness before its eyes.\n \n -Toni Morrison\n \n \n \n \n Dr. Michael O'Loughlin has devoted considerable time in his writing to autobi ographical exploration of his own subject formatio n and the complexity of his status as an exile fro m Ireland. He will begin by sharing excerpts from his writings—and particularly from an interview wi th his mother—illustrating the ancestral\, sociohi storical\, and emotional occlusions that lay the f oundation for his being. Is it possible\, Wiegman wonders\, to tell a story that exceeds the boundar y of the personal\, and transcends "idioms of the ordinary" (p. 6)? Can we trouble our own lived exp eriences in ways that shed light on the sociopolit ical formation of our subjectivities? He will link this work to a long tradition in hauntology and g enealogy (e.g.\, Edward Emery\, Avery Gordon\, Abr aham & Torok\, Davoine & Gaudillière\, Jacques Der rida\, Haydee Faimberg\, Anne Ancelin Schűtzenberg er) that illustrates the sociohistorical constitut edness of subject formation. Nicholas Rand suggest s provocatively that an analysis is necessarily "a n analysis in absentia of several generations." He will then move back to autobiography to situate h is thinking about encountering the Other\, confron ting particularly the whiteness of his own racial formation\, and the situatedness of that whiteness in both colonial and socioeconomic contexts. If\, as Claudia Tate suggests\, psychoanalysis functio ns "as a writing of the ethnicity of the White wes tern psyche\," we have much work to do to unconcea l these processes and work toward a more emancipat ory and inclusive psychoanalysis. In his concludin g section\, he will explore the possibility of wha t Judith Butler calls "giving an account of onesel f\," examining larger societal structures such as racialized capitalism and neoliberalism in subject formation\, drawing particularly on Butler as wel l as Suely Rolnik and Achille Mbembe to invite dis cussion of how our work might enhance creativity\, and the potential for freedom.\n \n CATEGORIES:Conference CALSCALE:GREGORIAN DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20270227T090000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270227T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270227T121500 LOCATION:Shepherd of the Hills Presbyterian Church\n 5226 W William Cannon Dr.\n Austin\, TX 78749\n United S tates\n URL:https://austinpsychoanalytic.org/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=56 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR