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Psychoanalysis and Culture : universal psychic truths”.

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The title of the Open Day of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society to be held in Melbourne on Saturday 17 September at the Treacy Centre.  Here is the blurb for it. To quote:

Dr Claudio Laks Eizirik (Brazil), distinguished international speaker and past president of the International Psychoanalytic Association, together with Dr John McClean and Associate Professor Frances Thomson-Salo of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society (President and past President) will address the ways in which intrapsychic forces, which can be identified and analysed in the consulting room, may also be played out in the wider social group…

How might we understand, for instance, what in the human psyche enables individuals to rise up against hatred and oppression, to confront the abuse of power, as demonstrated in the “Arab Spring” uprising and the recent turmoil/eruptions in the UK?

The Mind of a Child

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I found this via another history blog: Boston 1775 – devoted to things American and eighteenth century.It is inviting submissions to a session of the  American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies to be held between March 22 -25 2012. It is entitled:  “The Mind of the Child in the Eighteenth Century” .

This panel hopes to explore intersections between two major emerging fields of eighteenth-century studies: children’s literature and cognitive literary studies. Papers might address the extent to which pedagogical theorists considered the minds of children; if and how children’s texts envision the material brain; how the emerging field of child psychology shaped literary and cultural notions of childhood; scientific experiments on children; the place of the child’s mind in eighteenth-century poetry; children and the Royal Society; or a range of other topics. Papers with an interdisciplinary focus are especially encouraged.

The contact person is Patrick C. Fleming,

219 Bryan Hall, English Dept.,

U. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22903; E-mail:  pcfleming@virginia.edu