ANARCHISTS ORGANISE PISS-UP IN BREWERY
To celebrate the second birthday of the establishment of ASN in November 2007, members organised a tour of Nottingham's Castle Rock Brewery. Hangovers contributed to it taking this long to post up the announcement.
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This panel aims to stage a genuine and unhurried conversation about conjunctions (and disjunctions) between anarchism and psychoanalysis.
What factors have shaped the history of the reception of psychoanalysis within the anarchist movement -- from its vigorous rejection by thinkers such as Gustav Landauer to its appropriation by Otto Gross, Paul Goodman, and many others? How can or should anarchists deploy psychoanalytic methods in theory and practice? Is anarchist literary/cultural theory a psychoanalytic theory? To what extent are various forms of psychoanalytic practice prone to anarchist critiques of specialization, domination, "lifestylism," and recuperation? Is there a deep incompatibility, as Andrew Robinson argues, between anarchism and theories founded on the notion of "constitutive lack" -- or, as George C. Benello argues, between anarchism and theories based on the concept of "repression" per se? How does psychoanalysis modify, oppose, or ratify anarchist conceptions of the person, rationality, ethics, and the social? What was gained and/or lost when anarchist theorists from Félix Martí Ibañez to Jason McQuinn came to embrace varieties of "left Freudianism" in the 20th century? To what extent might the "new science" of psychoanalysis extend, obstruct, or supercede the "social science" of the anarchist tradition? On the other hand, what might the anarchist tradition have to teach contemporary psychoanalytic theory? Given the disrepute of psychoanalysis as "science" per se, would anarchist do better to follow the path taken by Noam Chomsky and others into cognitive science, neurology, and evolutionary psychology (or, indeed, into other methodological schools)?
These are just some of the questions we might entertain.
The format of this panel will occupy a two-hour window. At least three (perhaps up to five) presentations of fifteen to twenty minutes each will set the stage for a more open conversations. Presenters are encouraged to develop informal or extemporaneous talks from notes rather than to read from a script if they are comfortable doing so.
All participants are encouraged to read:
Amrod, Jay [a.k.a. Jai Badguy/Jai Noa], and Lev Chernyi [a.k.a. Jason McQuinn] (1996). "Beyond Character and Morality: Towards Transparent Communications and Coherent Organization." Ed. Howard J. Ehrlich. Reinventing Anarchy, Again. San Francisco: AK Press. 318-322.
Benello, George C. (1992). From the Ground Up: Essays on Grassroots and Workplace Democracy. Boston: South End Press.
Colombo, Eduardo (2006). "La Société, la Pensée et le Cerveau." < http://akratos.info/article.php3?id_article=7>
Colson, Daniel (2001). "Corps," "Manque," "Moi," "Passage à l’acte," "Personne," "Sexualité," "Sujet," etc. Petit lexique de philosophie anarchiste de Proudhon à Deleuze. Paris: Librairie Générale Française.
Garnier, Philippe (1996). "Anti-psychiatrie, psychanalyse et anarchisme." Online at < http://1libertaire.free.fr/Garnier16.html>
Goodman, Paul (1977). Nature Heals: The Psychological Essays of Paul Goodman. Ed. Taylor Stoehr. New York: E.P. Dutton.
Gross, Otto (1919). "Protest und Moral im Unbewußten." Die Erde 1: 681-685. < http://www.ottogross.org/deutsch/Gesamtwerk/34.1.html> <--[Engl.: "Protest and Morality in the Unconscious," trans. Ted Gundel. < http://www.ottogross.org/english/works/34.html>]
- - - (1913). "Zur Überwindung der kulturellen Krise." < http://www.ottogross.org/deutsch/Gesamtwerk/20.1.html> [Engl.: "On Overcoming the Cultural Crisis," partially trans. John Turner, in Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas: Volume One: From Anarchy to Anarchism (300CE to 1939), ed. Robert Graham (Montréal: Black Rose Books, 2005), pp. 281-284.]
Kastner, Jens (2006). "Fallen lassen! Anmerkungen zur Repressionshypothese." < http://www.grundrisse.net/grundrisse19/jens_petz_kastner.htm>
Martí-Ibañez, Félix (1937). Psicoanálisis de la Revolución social española. Barcelona: Tierra y Libertad.
Mitzman, Arthur (1977). "Anarchism, Expressionism and Psychoanalysis." New German Critique 10: 77-109.
Newman, Saul (2001). From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
- - - (2004). "Interrogating the Master: Lacan and Radical Politics." Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 9.3: 298-314.
Robinson, Andrew (2005). "The Political Theory of Constitutive Lack: A Critique." Theory & Event 8.1. Online at < http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/theory_and_event/v008/8.1robinson.html>
Stoehr, Taylor (1994). Here Now Next: Paul Goodman and the Origins of Gestalt Therapy. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.