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 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…