To Be Continued?...
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Today

Atrij ZRC, Ljubljana

Part III
15–16 April 2025

Live Session (Zoom)

Boštjan Nedoh
Marisa Žele
Holden M. Rasmussen
Amanda Holmes
Aleš Bunta
Alenka Zupančič
Alejandro Cerda-Rueda
Arka Chattopadhyay
Lorenzo Chiesa
Mladen Dolar
Justin Clemens
Alexi Kukuljevic
Peter Klepec
Stephen Overy
Tadej Troha
Sigi Jöttkandt
Richard Boothby


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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Justin Clemens (The University of Melbourne)



Pornosophical Philotheology: Lacan on the Philosophical Management of Desire


In the Circe episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus is stumbling drunkenly through Nighttown with his faithless friend Vincent Lynch, expatiating upon a hoary speculative theme: ‘So that gesture, not music, not odours, would be a universal language, the gift of tongues rendering visible not the lay sense but the first entelechy, the structural rhythm.’ In response to Stephen’s pompous and pretentious profundities, Lynch objects that this is: ‘Pornosophical philotheology. Metaphysics in Mecklenburg street!’ Perhaps there is no better portmanteau affirmation of the rapport between pornography, philosophy, and theology. As Lacan himself notes in Seminar V—first of all with respect to the ancient tie between prisons and brothels, and then with respect to Jean Genet’s play The Balcony—in such houses of illusions, we confront figures as the Chief of Police and the Madame, exemplary agents of the management of desires in all their polymorphousness and perversion. Perhaps we can also speak of philosophy’s world historical complicity and collusion with such a management?