To Be Continued?...
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Today

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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Voranc Kumar (Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU)


Internal – External


My commentary will centre around Freud's employment of spatial categories and the metaphors he uses to explain his theory. In “A Metapsychological Supplement to the Theory of Dreams,” he defines an organism’s ability to distinguish between the “external” and the “internal” as its “first orientation in the world”, to which he links the institution of reality-testing, which he counts “among the major institutions of the ego”. In my remarks, I will be drawing correlations with some of Freud’s other texts, in particular “On Narcissism” from 1914, where he introduces the metaphor of the pseudopodia of the eukaryotic cell. I will also focus on some passages from the “Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis”, in which Freud not only elaborates on his pseudopodia metaphor in the 26th lecture, but also brings about another spatial metaphor in the 19th lecture by comparing the system of the unconscious to a large “entrance hall”, while he compares the system of the preconscious to the adjoining “drawing- room”, in which—as he says—"consciousness, too, resides”.