Psychoanalysis and Politics:Histories of Psychoanalysis and Political Repression (Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Maison de l’Argentine, 9th-10th September 2010)
septembre 4th, 2010
Thursday 9th September
9.0-9.15am Joy Damousi and Mariano Plotkin
Welcome and Introduction to the workshop
Session 1: Psychoanalysis and Totalitarianism in Europe
Commentators: Birgit Lang, Mariano Plotkin
9.15-10.30: Second World War and Psychoanalysis: France and Hungary
‘Effect of dictatorial regimes on the psychoanalytic movement in Hungary, before and after the Second World War’
Judit Meszaros
‘Psychoanalysis during the Vichy regime and the post-war period’
Annick Ohayon
10.30-11.0: Coffee
11.0-1.0: A Tale of Two Dictatorships: Mussolini’s Italy and Franco’s Spain
‘Psychoanalysis in Franco’s Spain (1939-1975)’
Anne-Cécile Druet
‘Origin, Rise and Disappearance of a Psychoanalytic Culture in Fascist Italy, 1922-1938’
Mauro Pasqualini
Session 2: The Latin American Experience: Psychoanalysis and Authoritarianism in Argentina and Brazil
Commentator: Joy Damousi
2.30-3.30: Brazil
‘Psychoanalysis in Brazil during Vargas’ Times’
C. Lucia Montechi Valladares de Oliveira
‘The social diffusion of psychoanalysis during the Brazilian military regime: psychological awareness in an age of political repression’
Jane Russo
3.30-4.0: Coffee
4.0-5.0: Argentina
‘Psychoanalysis in Argentina under Peronism and anti-Peronism (1943-1963)’
Alejandro Dagfal
‘The Diffusion of Psychoanalysis under conditions of Political Authoritarianism: The Case of Argentina in the 1960s and 1970s’
Mariano Ben Plotkin
5.0-5.30: Summary of Key Themes
Friday 10th September
Session 3: Psychoanalysis in America and Australia: The Cold War and Beyond
Commentators: Robert Reynolds and John Cash
9.30-11.0: Democracies and Psychoanalysis
“’Have You No Shame?’ The Redbaited History of American Psychoanalysis’
Elizabeth Ann Danto
‘Democracy and Free Associations: Psychoanalysis in Australia’
Joy Damousi
11.0-11.30: Coffee
11.30-12.30 : ‘Psychoanalysis, Authoritarianism and the 1960s’
Eli Zaretsky
2.00-4.00: Next Steps
Mariano Plotkin and Joy Damousi
This Project is supported by the Commonwealth of Australia under the International Science Linkages program.