Jamieson Webster sobre “Breathing and The Unconscious”

Como último encontro do Grupo de leitura sobre Lacrimae Rerum, de Žižek, sobre o “litoral” entre a psicanálise e o cinema, o projeto ERC “CINEMA E MORTE – A Filosofia do Cinema como uma Meditação sobre a Morte” convida Jamieson Webster para uma palestra sobre “Breathing and The Unconscious”. A palestra será em inglês e terá lugar exclusivamente online no dia 20 de novembro, pelas 17h (WET). Para participar na sessão via Zoom, use este link.

Jamieson Webster é psicanalista na cidade de Nova York e professora na The New School for Social Research. O seu livro mais recente intitula-se Disorganization and Sex (Divided, 2022).

Resumo/Abstract

Derrida famously said that philosophy always unites speech and breath making it pneumatological instead of grammatology — a whole world of privileging spirit over matter, trace, and writing. This question becomes more fascinating when looking at the history of psychoanalysis. Breuer, Fliess, Jung, Rank, Reich, and Ferenczi all touched on a question of breath, a moment that was identified by Freud as heretical, leading him to break violently from each of these figures. The choice was between breathing or Oedipus as the center of psychoanalytic work, between anxiety and symptom formation. What can breathing tell us about the unconscious and the talking cure?