Session 6 – Lionel Naccache – Consciousness and Narrative Identity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9UTs-0dGCE
Session 4 – Social alienation and its contemporary manifestations
In today’s society, what makes the subject disappear, turning him into “other”, “foreign to himself”? Cynthia Fleury analyses the concept of social alienation and its dynamics in Karl Marx before unravelling the mechanics of self-loss in addiction and substance abuse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fokF67nysL4This lecture in the Seminars at Saint-Anne series was given on 9 January under the…
Session 3 – Asperger’s Syndrome, what it says about the subject
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhzXSjFaLpAWhether thought of in terms of Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) or Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), Asperger’s Syndrome is a complex, life-long neurodevelopmental disorder that appears before the age of 3 years and affects all areas of child development. It causes difficulty in communication, social interaction and repetitive behaviour, which reflect both a deficit and an…
Session 2 – The Althusser case or the erasure of the subject
In The Future Lasts Forever, philosopher Louis Althusser attempts to justify the murder of his wife, Hélène, as the “very sign of [her] erasure”. This is an opportunity to address the melancholy question and to question the psychologization of a feminicide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0dhn7ecqygLouis Althusser, a leading figure of the rue d’Ulm and the intellectual circles of…
Session 1 – Montaigne, a modern subject
Technology allows us to observe the brain like never before, but just what is the subject behind the diodes? Who is he? “A mixed man,” answers philosopher Cynthia Fleury, quoting Montaigne and his Essays in this introductory session of the seminar “The Subject in Psychiatry” on 7 November 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3TQ_ztRSD8At a time when the neurosciences…
