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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Mladen Dolar (University of Ljubljana)


The Punning of Reason


The title, the punning of reason, is obviously calqued on the notorious Hegelian cunning of reason, immediately bringing together the universality of reason and the contingency of punning, making them coincide. The paper will propose a brief history of the fate of homonymy in relation to universal concepts, starting with Aristotle’s ban on homonymy on the first page of his Logic, then examining the discussion of punning during the heyday of the enlightenment (e.g. with Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Defence of Punning”), to continue with Hegel’s most telling word plays and their strategic function in dialectical thought, and to finish this brief survey with Lacan and the examination of the linguistic incest.