The language of the mother and the language of the father: A lecture with Klara Naszkowska
In conjunction with the New School for Social Research Department of Philosophy
Presents
A Lecture
The language of the mother and the language of the father: Sabina Spielrein’s anticipation of the concepts of Jacques Lacan, Hélène Cixous and Luce Iragaray
with Klara Naszkowska
FREE EVENT
Online via Zoom
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Thursday, October 1, 2020
6 – 8 PM
Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942) was a Russian-Jewish forerunner of child analysis. This lecture will focus on her model of the development of language and thought first formulated in the presentation delivered at the International Psychoanalytic Congress held in The Hague in 1920, and then expanded in a number of papers. This lecture will show how Spielrein’s model anticipated by thirty years Jacques Lacan’s concept of the three orders, Real, Imaginary and Symbolic, and how her concept of the autistic primitive language associated with the mother anticipated the theories of Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray who postulate a non-symbolic feminine language associated with the mother, corporality and feminine jouissance.
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Presenter:
Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D
Moderator:
Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.
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Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D., cultural historian specialising in the early history of psychoanalytic thought, founding director of the International Association for Spielrein Studies (www.spielreinassociation.org), and 2019/2020 Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary (Columbia University). Recent and forthcoming publications: “Passions, Politics, and Drives: Sabina Spielrein in Soviet Russia” in: Sabina Spielrein and the Beginnings of Psychoanalysis: Thought, Word, and Image (Routledge, 2019) and “Sabina Spielrein: Searching for her own path” in: Psychoanalysis in the Shadow of War and Holocaust (in Polish, Universitas, 2020). Klara is the head of the scientific and organising committee of the first International Conference “Sabina Spielrein and the Early Female Pioneers of Psychoanalysis” (13-15 April 2021, Warsaw).