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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Marisa Žele (ZRC SAZU)


Escaping the Dream


In my reading of Freud’s text, I will focus on a paragraph on the dreamer’s abandonment of sleep out of fear of his own dreams, in which Freud writes: “[W]e are acquainted, too, with the extreme case where the ego gives up the wish to sleep, because it feel unable to inhibit the repressed impulses set free during sleep—in other words, where it renounces sleep because of its fear of its dreams”. I will be interested in the dynamics of the two types of escape or withdrawal “into” and “from” dreams and their relation to what Freud defines as interruption: firstly, the escape into dreams and thus dreams that, by withstanding the interruption, enable the sleeper to go on sleeping; secondly, the event of waking up as an escape from dreams, as related to the problem of the nightmare.