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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Peter Klepec (ZRC SAZU)


On the Vagaries of the Superego and Related Matters


In this intervention we will take a closer look at some of the insights of psychoanalysis with regard to the instance of the superego in the psychopathology of everyday life. Freud described the instance of the superego as particularly demanding and cruel. The superego is particularly capricious and often changes its mind and its own previous orders out of the blue. Hence vagaries of the superego. The superego is a form of authority that is always right, something that by definition cannot be satisfied. No wonder Lacan describes the superego in Seminar XX as an instance that forces us to enjoy. Moreover, the superego goes hand in hand with excess and gluttony. Our relationship with it is of a special kind—we are always in a subordinate position in relation to it, the guilt and the debt it imposes on us are infinite, the confrontatio