Fwd: Freud and the Fairy Tale (7/31/08, book volume)

Mon May 26 20:37:08 UTC 2008

Dear colleagues,
This announcement would appear to be relevant to those of you who are  
working in the area of Slavic folklore.

With regards to the list,

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

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> Date: May 15, 2008 8:50:34 AM PDT
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> Subject: Fwd: FW: Freud and the Fairy Tale (7/31/08, book volume)
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> From: Robyn Schiffman <rls at fdu.edu>
> Date: Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:43 AM
> Subject: FW: Freud and the Fairy Tale (7/31/08, book volume)
> To: dianne hunter <dianne.hunter1 at gmail.com>
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> FYI.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: German Studies CFP Forum [mailto:GERMAN-CFP-L at PO.MISSOURI.EDU]  
> On
> Behalf Of Laurie Johnson
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:30 AM
> To: GERMAN-CFP-L at PO.MISSOURI.EDU
> Subject: CFP: Freud and the Fairy Tale (7/31/08, book volume)
>
> Call for Papers:
> Freud and the Fairy Tale: New Approaches to Very Old Stories
>
> The title of the May 2005 issue of Der Spiegel magazine asked "Was  
> Freud
> Right?"  The sixth Freud cover in the periodical's history appeared  
> in April
> 2006, with the title "Sex and the Self: The Rediscovery of Sigmund  
> Freud."
> In March of that same year, Newsweek's cover announced that "Freud  
> is (Not)
> Dead."
>
> Freud seems to be back, as evidenced, among other things, by new
> publications such as the Journal of Neuro-Psychoanalysis and the  
> implicit
> endorsement of scientists including Erich Kandel, who acknowledges  
> that no
> one but Freud has been able to provide a satisfactory explanatory  
> model for
> unconscious psychic processes. One of the things Freud seems to have  
> been
> right about is the nature of "screen memories." In his essay On the
> Occurrence in Dreams of Material from Fairy Tales, Freud contends that
> memories of fairy tales can "screen," or stand in for, memories of  
> actual
> past events. The analyst's awareness of this process helps him  
> realize when
> he is being confronted with a patient's real memories and when he is  
> hearing
> fiction presented as fact. Freud points out that memory is not very  
> stable:
> our knowledge of the real factual past is not always reliable, and  
> in fact
> may be literally partly fiction particularly when our desires,  
> fantasies,
> and capacities for den!
>  ial are activated, which is often.
>
> Perhaps the return to Freud, together with a renewed focus generally  
> in the
> humanities on clashes and commingling of tradition and innovation,  
> means
> that it is time to revisit psychoanalysis and the fairy tale. But  
> Lacanian,
> Zizekian, and other approaches within the real of the psychoanalytic  
> are
> also welcome; we wish to re-read tales as aesthetic structures that  
> are open
> to interpretations that move beyond Bruno Bettelheim's still-seminal  
> The
> Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales  
> (1975) and
> its theses about the tales' mobilization of the psychic mechanisms of
> projection and identification. Essays could also invoke a  
> "psychoanalytic
> stance" rather than pursue a rigorous application of Freudian  
> concepts to a
> tale or tales. In short, we are interested in exploring the status and
> nature of psychoanalytic interpretation today, via the fairy tale: a  
> form at
> once seemingly arch-traditional, yet also potentially innovative,  
> supple,
> and adaptable to !
>  every cultural space and time.
>
> Possible operative concepts for contributions include but are not  
> limited
> to: desire, paranoia, repetition, guilt, anxiety, love, longing, loss,
> melancholy. Is a new psychoanalysis of the fairy tale possible?  
> Tales from
> any traditions and cultures are welcome, but the essays may also  
> focus on
> interpretation itself as much or more than on a particular tale or  
> tales.
>
> Abstracts of approximately 500 words are welcome by July 31, 2008.  
> We will
> approach publishers with this more specific information and with a
> prospectus and proposed table of contents. The final essays (15-20
> double-spaced pages in length) would be requested by July 1, 2009.
>
> Please submit abstracts and direct any questions or suggestions to:
>
> Laurie Johnson at lruthjoh at uiuc.edu
>
> Thank you very much for considering contributing to this volume!
>
> Laurie Johnson
> Associate Professor of German, in the Program in Comparative and World
> Literature, and in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> 2090 FLB, 707 S. Mathews Ave.
> Urbana, IL 61801
>
> Laurie Johnson
> Helen Corley Petit Scholar of Liberal Arts and Sciences
> Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, in the  
> Program in
> Comparative and World Literature, and in the Unit for Criticism and
> Interpretive Theory
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> 2090 FLB, 707 S. Mathews Ave.
> Urbana, IL  61801
> Phone: 217/265-4037
>
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