Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture announces March 2020 events

Rebecca Comay, Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, will give two presentations for UB's Center of Psychoanalysis and Culture:

  • March 5, at 4 pm in 904 Clemens Hall, a lecture entitled “Freud Sets a Deadline: The Wolfman and Interminable Analysis.” 
  • March 6, at 1 pm in 107 CAPEN Hall, a seminar entitled “Deadlines - Literally.”

Comay's lecture and seminar form part of a larger project on the strange temporality of the deadline — political, theological, psychoanalytic, literary, legal, biological, environmental and other sorts. The lecture discusses the question of time in Freud’s famous “Wolf Man” case. “Deadlines - Literally,” expands to four different approaches, beginning with a shift from temporal deadlines to material deadlines as demarcations that served to redouble physical enclosure with symbolic terror, in the prisoner-of-war camps of the American Civil War, and later considering Dr. Faustus in Marlowe’s and Mann’s different versions.

She works at the intersection of philosophy, art, and psychoanalysis, with a special focus on post-Hegelian political philosophy (including Marx, Benjamin and the Frankfurt School) and contemporary continental philosophy. She is interested in questions of memory, trauma and the archive, and in particular in exploring the resources of psychoanalysis for social and cultural analysis. Comay is the author of Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (Stanford UP, 2011), and of The Dash – the Other Side of Absolute Knowing, co-authored with Frank Ruda (MIT Press 2017). 

She has written articles on mourning, melancholia, sculpture, and on sickness and remains in Marcel Proust and Doris Salcedo, among many other topics.

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