June 29–June 30, 2022
Time Zone: Eastern Standard Time (EST/ET)
Please check your own time zone. E.g., BST is +5 hours; CEST is +6 hours
This event is sponsored by PsyArt and is hosted via Zoom by University at Albany.
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Wednesday, June 29 (EST)
8:30–8:45 AM: Welcome
8:45–10:00 AM: Plenary Presentation
Dr. Henrik Enckell (of Finland), psychoanalyst (IPA): Literature and Psychoanalytic Process: A Look Through the Lens of Metaphor.
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10:10–11:40 AM: PANEL 1: ANTIGONE, PSYCHOANALYTIC LITERATURE STUDIES AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
Samir Dayal: Antigone at the Crossroads: Ethical Loneliness
Elyse Zucker: Projection and the Pursuit of Self in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Lisa Winter: Psychotherapy as Festival. Essence of the therapeutic setting from a cultural science perspective
10:10–11:40 AM: PANEL 2: FILM AND THEATRE
Paula Leverage: Reading Minds in Marcel Carné’s Les Visiteurs du soir
Joseph M. Meyer: Breaking through the Neomodern Despair: How the Marvel Cinematic Universe Produced a Moment of Awe
Rosella Tomassoni, Francesco Spilabotte and Valentina Coccarelli: The Theatre of Gian Carlo Riccardi: Some Psychological Considerations
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11:40 AM–12:40 PM: Break
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12:40–2:10 PM: PANEL 3: STUDIES ON LITERATURE, FILM, AND DERRIDA
Mary Valentis: Death and the Mother: Unwinding Phantom Threads and Invisible Cords in Joyce, Freud, Klein, McQueen, and Anderson
Peter Barglow: Male Self-esteem in Henry James’ “The Portrait of a Lady”, 1881
Antal Bokay: Beyond Pleasure, Back to Mourning – Derrida’s Life- and Thanatography
12:40–2:10 PM: PANEL 4: ARTISTIC MOTIVATION AND SUBLIMATION
Zoltan Kovary: Unsuccessful Sublimation and Nightmares – The Anatomy of Psychological Breakdown
Todd O. Williams: Envy and Gratitude as Conflicting Artistic Motivations in Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Karen Bekker: Cezanne’s Confusion of Sensations
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2:20–4:00 PM: Social gathering
Thursday, June 30 (EST)
9:00–10:30 AM: PANEL 5: CHILDREN AND PARENTS
Marcie Newton: Precocious Performances: A Psycho-Legal Examination of Cuties and the Hypersexualization of Children in the Media and Entertainment Industry
Nozomi Yamane: What two children find in journey: logotherapeutic analysis of the film Spirited Away
Karen Pepper: Too much and not enough: two memoirs about mothers, daughters, and the art of feeding
9:00–10:30 AM: PANEL 6: AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS
Eeva Pihlaja “Here quietude is linked with stillness” – Winnicott’s silent core of the self and aesthetic experience
Jussi Saarinen: The feeling of “getting it right” in painting
Patricia Townsend: Is the Creative Process the same for all Artforms? A view from psychoanalysis and neuroscience
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10:40–11:40 AM: PANEL 7: NEUROAESTHETICS AND VIRTUAL REALITY
Glauco Cioffi: Neuroaesthetics: embodied simulation, sensorimotor engagement, and emotions
Ekaterina Muravevskaia: Virtual Reality Empathy Game based on the folklore narrative: Creating Virtual Role Play Environments for Children to Practice Emotional Interactions with the Virtual Characters
10:40 AM–11:40 AM: PANEL 8: LACAN
Alexander Venetis: Interpretation as Interpolation: Sense, Non-Sense & Significance in Lacanianism
Robert Silhol: On the function of art
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11:40 AM–12:40 PM: Break
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12:40–2:10 PM: PANEL 9: SLAVERY, RAPE, TRAUMA AND THE UNNAMEABLE
Shanee Stepakoff: “And Check the Rising Tumult of the Soul”: Textual Emblems of Enslavement Trauma in the Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Monika Szafrańska: Raped women in the polish translations of the Bible
Rose Gupta: The Frankenstein Metaphor: Encountering the mindless intent to destroy
12:40–2:10 PM: PANEL 10: EDUCATION AND THE ARTISTIC PROCESS
Henrique Muga: Psychology for art students
Juliana Pepper: Experimental Storytelling and the Manifestations of Memory
Rebecca Gimeno: Wearing the ghost: Death, objects, and adornment
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2:20–3:20 PM: Members’ meeting
3:30–5:00 PM Closing virtual social gathering