[Bilimsel Haber] CFP/workshop: Philosophy, Literature, Psychoanalysis: an "Uneasy" Trinity - Helsinki, July 28 -- August 2, 2008

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

*Philosophy, Literature, Psychoanalysis: an "Uneasy" Trinity*
*Location:* Finland 
<http://www.h-net.org/announce/geography.cgi?geography=Finland>
*Call for Papers Date:* 2007-10-01
*Date Submitted:* 2007-07-25
*Announcement ID:* 157502

Submissions are invited for a workshop in the forthcoming 11th 
conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas 
(ISSEI) in Helsinki, Finland, July 28 -- August 2, 2008. The progress in 
science has been marked by revolutionary findings and re-interpretations 
of concepts like time, space, human life, and longevity, to name just a 
few. However, the progress in philosophy, literature and the arts in 
general seems a more fleeting and abstract idea to discuss. Yet on a 
whole new level, psychoanalysis has often been questioned as to its 
"place" in the system of human knowledge, and if it really yields any 
knowledge at all. Psychoanalysis has had a serious influence on 
literature and philosophy, yet the ongoing debates about the 
"scientificity" and usefulness of it, the ethical dimensions of its 
application to literature, and so on, prompt us to look once again into 
this (un-)easy relationship. The prospective papers might look into the 
well-known controversies raised by scholars like Wittgenstein, Grünbaum, 
Crews and others, but also try to answer the justified question: "What 
knowledge does psychoanalysis lend to literary studies and to 
philosophy, and what does it take back from them?"

Please submit a 500-word abstract and a resume by October 1, 2007. 
Notifications of acceptance by November 1, 2007. Please e-mail documents 
as Word attachments to: artemis.r at intercol.edu

Dr Rossitsa Artemis
Languages Department
Intercollege
46 Makedonitissas Ave.
P. O. Box 24005
Nicosia 1700
CYPRUS.

Email: artemis.r at intercol.edu <mailto:artemis.r at intercol.edu>