To Be Continued?...
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Today

Part II
16–18 April 2024

Holden M. Rasmussen
Marisa Žele
Aleš Mendiževec
Voranc Kumar
Alejandro Cerda-Rueda
Arka Chattopadhyay
Boštjan Nedoh
Tadej Troha
Adrian Johnston
Mladen Dolar
Henrik Jøker Bjerre
Aleš Bunta
Adam Potts
Alenka Zupančič
Lorenzo Chiesa
Joan Copjec
Emily Laurent-Monaghan
Moritz Herrmann
Arsalan Reihanzadeh
Paris Lavidis
Nadia Bou Ali
Peter Klepec
Mohamed Tal
Frank Ruda
Ray Brassier


Part I
15–17 November 2023

Holden M. Rasmussen
Emily Laurent-Monaghan
Moritz Herrmann
Paris Lavidis
Vesna Liponik
Arsalan Reihanzadeh
Adrian Johnston
Jelica Šumič Riha
Tadej Troha
Boštjan Nedoh
Marisa Žele
Aleš Bunta
Peter Klepec
Alenka Zupančič
Lorenzo Chiesa


To Be Continued? ... 
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  • We can certainly say that the dialogue between philosophy and psychoanalysis, however prolix, has so far proved very difficult, ever since the latter’s inception. Is there such thing as a philosophy-psychoanalysis relationship? Or has it always been only empty speech? In that case, should it be continued?
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Frank Ruda (University of Dundee)


Up the Anti. Psychoanalysis and the Traversal of the End of Philosophy


This lecture will unfold a historically specific, yet systematically crucial implication of Alain Badiou’s identification of (Lacanian) psychoanalysis as an antiphilosophy. It will demonstrate how antiphilosophy in general amounts to a specific modality of historicizing and thereby (potentially) transforming (the mode of existence of) philosophy, a modality differs from the transformative impact that philosophy's conditions can have. Against this background, the lecture will address Badiou’s treatment of the historical moment in which the (trope of the) end of philosophy became dominant and examine how it was precisely (Lacanian) antiphilosophy that allowed to put a systematic end to it. Philosophy’s contemporary existence will thereby become legible as resulting from a particular operation of negating something that did not exist (anymore).