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The Jouissance of Transgression: Lacan and CrimeThe Jouissance of Transgression: Lacan and Crime
The event will be held at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
We live in a time when new forms of violence are emerging. The September 11th attack on the United States revealed an unrecognized willingness of terrorists to sacrifice their own lives in order to hurt their "enemies." In the last decade, national conflicts around the globe have resulted in the most brutal forms of torture against civilian populations. In our daily lives, we increasingly hear of brutal crimes committed by young
In the mid-twentieth century, French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan developed a startlingly novel school of psychoanalysis by integrating Freudian theory within the context of the Continental speculative philosophical tradition. Lacan suggests that there is a particular jouissance experienced in crime. Participants at this unique conference will ask how the logic of jouissance can explain violence against oneself and others. Leading scholars from many disciplines, including law, philosophy, literary and critical theory, and anthropology, as well as practicing
Psychoanalysis claims that certain primal prohibitions form the basis of the moral law that governs not only social norms but also a subject's inner self. What is the link between these external and internal norms? Paradoxically, the law that society imposes onto the subject does not necessarily limit the subject's behavior-sometimes the subject commits the crime precisely to escape the pressure and feelings of guilt that arise Make check payable to Yeshiva University
Mail to: For further information, contact Jacquelyn Schneider at 212-790-0324 or Papers and commentary presented at this conference will be published in a forthcoming issue of Cardozo Law Review. Schedule Sunday, March 10 3:00 pm REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 3:30 pm LAW
David S. Caudill, Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law Penelope Pether, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Rhetoric and Jeanne Schroeder, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, and Visiting Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School 5:30 pm RECEPTION
6:00 pm KEYNOTE: K. Joan Copjec, Professor, Departments of English, Comparative Literature and Media Study, and Director, Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Monday, March 11 9:30 am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
10:00 am WELCOME, David Rudenstine. Dean and Dr. Herman George and Kate Kaiser Professor 10:15 am CRIME Linda Belau, Professor, Department of English, The George Washington University Dr. Nestor Braunstein, Director, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Dr. Russell Grigg, School of Social Inquiry, Deakin University, Australia 12:00 pm LUNCH BREAK 1:00 pm VIOLENCE Edward Cameron, Professor, Department of English, University of District David Gray Carlson, Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva Sinkwan Cheng, Carl H. Pforzheimer Professor, City College, Dr. Franz Kaltenbeck, Psychoanalyst, Paris 3:30 pm JOUISSANCE Parveen Adams, Director, Psychoanalytic Studies, Brunel University, UK Dr. Genevieve Morel, International College of Philosophy, Paris, Director, Juliet Flower-MacCannell, Professor Emeritus, Department of Compartive Literature, Renata Salecl, Senior Researcher, Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, 6:00 pm RECEPTION The Jacob Burns Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, a leading center of jurisprudential theory since its founding at Cardozo in 1988, has aided in establishing Cardozo's inter-national reputation for interdisciplinary legal scholarship in general, and continental speculative theory, in particular. This conference is the most recent in a series devoted to this project including Hegel and the Law (1989), Deconstruction and the |
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