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Why was Psychoanalysis founded by an Emigrant?

A collaboration between

New Studies on Hysteria Seminar Group - Dublin & L'École Pratique des Hautes Études en Psychopatholgies - Paris

9.00 Registration

9.20 Opening remarks - Cormac Gallagher,

9.30 An Intolerable Rejection - Malachi McCoy

9.50 'We see in the mechanism of Hysteria something which is a defence against dissatisfaction.' (Charles Melman) - Ros McCarthy

10.10 Being a Stranger to Oneself - Guy le Gaufey

10.30 Discussion

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10.50 The Matter of Absence - Gérard Amiel

11.10 Aliens, this way please - Helen Sheehan

11.30 Discussion

11.45 Coffe/Tea Break

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12.05 What did Freud allow the Hysteric to teach him? - Stephanie Metcalfe

12.25 Post Exilium Ostende - Paul Bothorel

12.45 Reconstructing Reminiscences - Terry Ball

13.05 Discussion

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14.15 Why was Psychoanalysis founded by an Emigrant? - Charles Melman. Transl. -Cormac Gallagher

15.15 Discussion

15.30 Coffee/Tea Break

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15.45 Freud's interest in the origins of humanity as reflected in his theory of psychoanalysis - Nellie Curtin

16.05 Moving away from the Familiar - Glenn Brady

16.25 A Foreign Tongue - Barry O' Donnell

16.45 Discussion

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17.05 Silence....Cunning - Gerry Sullivan

17.25 Lacan's Moses - Tom Dalzell

17.45 Closing Remarks - Helen Sheehan

Abstracts available on website http://www.nsohdublin.ie

This conference arises out of an ongoing seminar which translates and discusses Charles Melman's work New Studies on Hysteria. This working group has been together for over two years. The group includes graduates of Dublin Business School, St Vincent's University Hospital and Trinity College Dublin. Helen Sheehan is translating this work of Dr Melman. This one day conference will address, as it's title suggests, a fundamental question for psychoanalysis: "why was psychoanalysis founded by an emigrant?"

As early as 1893 the question of the 'foreign' was raised by Freud and Breuer in their Preliminary Communication in "Studies on Hysteria". Referring to psychical trauma they write that it's memory "acts like a foreign body which long after it's entry must continue to be regarded as an agent that is still at work".

Is there a necessary link between what is foreign and hysteria? Is there something about the nature of psychoanalysis itself which invokes what it means to be a foreigner? This day, therefore, will attempt to address basic psychoanalytic questions.

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Speakers:

Gerard Amiel (Grenoble) - 'The Matter of Absence'

Terry Ball (Dublin) - 'Reconstructing Reminiscences'

Paul Bothorel (Brittany) - 'Post Exilium Ostende'

Glenn Brady (Dublin) - 'Moving away from the Familiar'

Nellie Curtin (Dublin) - 'Freud's interest in the origins of humanity as reflected in his theory of Psychoanalysis'

Tom Dalzell (Dublin) - 'Lacan's Moses'

Guy Le Gaufey (Paris) - 'Being a Stranger to Oneself'

Ros McCarthy (Dublin) - "We see in the mechanism of Hysteria something which is a defence against dissatisfaction" (Melman -Seminar 8, New Studies On Hysteria)

Malachi McCoy (Dublin) - 'An Intolerable Rejection'

Charles Melman (Paris) - 'Why was psychoanalysis founded by an emigrant?

Stephanie Metcalfe (Dublin) - 'What did Freud allow the Hysteric to teach him?'

Barry O’Donnell (Dublin) - 'A Foreign Tongue'

Helen Sheehan (Dublin) - 'Aliens, this way please'

Gerry Sullivan (London) - 'Silence...Cunning'

Please see website for further details: https://www.nsohdublin.com