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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Tadej Troha (ZRC SAZU)



The Unconscious Collective: Metapsychology and Contemporary Group Formations


Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego is typically examined from the perspective of the individual: attention is directed toward the transformations an individual undergoes when becoming a member of a group and the mechanisms that facilitate this process. However, is it possible to reverse this perspective and instead ask: what happens to society when a group emerges? What changes does the formation of a group impose on society—on a structure already composed of numerous, ostensibly ‘stable’ groups? To fully explore this reversal, it is necessary to distinguish between the many intersubjective social bonds that constitute the network of society and the binding agent (Bindemittel) that establishes the emerging group's unity and disregards previously and subsequently existing social bonds. This transformation, in which the underlying symbolic order becomes provisionally reified, casts the group as a formation of the unconscious in a strict sense. In this context, the binding agent may exceed the group's internally constructed limits, overflowing and affecting its environs, adjacent groups, and society at large. The crucial question, then, is not how one enters the group but how one avoids being absorbed into a group that, paradoxically and constitutively, overflows and imposes itself.