Session 6 – Lionel Naccache – Consciousness and Narrative Identity
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Session 4 – Social alienation and its contemporary manifestations
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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. [/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fokF67nysL4″ align=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This lecture in the Seminars at Saint-Anne series was given on 9…
Session 3 – Asperger’s Syndrome, what it says about the subject
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhzXSjFaLpA” align=”center”][vc_column_text]Whether 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…
Session 2 – The Althusser case or the erasure of the subject
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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. [/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0dhn7ecqyg” align=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Louis Althusser, a leading figure of the rue d’Ulm and the…
Session 1 – Montaigne, a modern subject
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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. [/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3TQ_ztRSD8″ align=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]At a time…
