PsyLit Meeting Friday March 14th 2014

The next PsyLit meeting will take place on Friday March 14th from 2-3pm in Room 104.  Joanna Kellond (University of Sussex) will be giving a paper on the U.S. TV series ‘In Treatment’, the series dramatizes the sessions of a Psychotherapist and his involvement with the lives of his patients.  Joanna’s paper is entitled‘Television and/as Therapy: the Case of ‘In Treatment’.  Reading/Viewing is as follows:

‘In Treatment’ Season One-The Tuesday/Alex Sessions

 

D.W. Winnicott-’Mirror-Role of Mother and Family’, Chapter 9 of Playing and Reality

In the seminar Joanna will be looking at the Alex sessions which are made up of episodes 2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27, 32 and 37 of Season 1. 

Please do circulate this email to anyone you think may be interested in coming along to PsyLit. We welcome staff and students both at Birmingham and further afield who are either working on, or interested in, literature and psychoanalysis.

 

If you would like to attend future PsyLit meetings or would like more information, please email Matt Geary, Rosie Reynolds and Oliver Penny at uob-psylit@contacts.bham.ac.uk. You can stay up to date by following us on Twitter (@uob_psylit) or WordPress (http://uobpsylit.wordpress.com/).

 

Thank you for all your support!
We look forward to seeing you!
Matt Geary, Rosie Reynolds and Oliver Penny

Registration for 'Other Eliots: Contemporary Trends in T. S. Eliot Studies 2014' is now open!

Registration for 'Other Eliots: Contemporary Trends in T. S. Eliot Studies 2014' which is to take place at the University of Birmingham on Friday April 18th is now open.

The conference seeks to draw attention to the multifarious research into Eliot's life and work which is currently being undertaken. It will take place on the main Edgbaston campus in the Arts Building (lecture room 1).

Keynote speakers for this event:

Dr. Jason Harding (University of Durham) 

Prof. Steve Ellis (University of Birmingham)

Confirmed chairs for the panels: 

Dr. Gail McDonald (Goldsmiths)

Dr. Scott Freer (University of Leicester)

Dr. David Barnes (University of Oxford).

Follow the link for programme and registration details, and further information:

http://othereliots2014.wordpress.com/registration/

For further details contact:

Matt Geary - mkg703@bham.ac.uk

Jeremy Diaper - jxd668@bham.ac.uk

 

 

1st PsyLit Meeting of 2014 - Friday 17th January 3-4pm in Room 104 of the Arts Building

The first PsyLit meeting of 2014 will now take place on Friday January 17th, 3-4pm, in Room 104 on the first floor of the Arts Building at the University of Birmingham.

For the first meeting there will be a 20 minute paper by Gemma King (University of Birmingham) entitled ‘Repressed Modernism: The Disparities of Freud’s Literary Theory, Criticism, and Practice’. Discussion will follow. The reading for the session will be

Virginia Woolf ‘Character in Fiction’, 1924, in Virginia Woolf Selected Essays, ed. by David Bradshaw (OUP, 2008), pp. 37-54.

and an extract from Sigmund Freud, ‘Some Character-Types met with in Psycho-Analytic Work’, 1916, in James Strachey (ed. and trans.)The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIV (1914-1916): On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement, Papers on Metapsychology and Other Works (London:Vintage, 2001), 309-36 (pp. 309-15).

We welcome staff and students from Birmingham and further afield either working on, or interested in, literature and psychoanalysis.

Please circulate this email to anybody you think may be interested. If you would like more information, or to join the mailing list to receive the materials before the meeting, please contact us at uob psylit@contacts.bham.ac.uk or Twitter @UOB_PSYLIT.

Dates for your diaries:

Friday January 17th, 3-4pm. Gemma King (University of Birmingham)
Monday February 10th, 2-3pm Dr Jan Campbell

We look forward to seeing you there,
Matt Geary, Rosie Reynolds and Oliver Penny