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Listen to Catherine Malabou and Éric Laurent on Psychoanalysis and the Cognitive Sciences
The London Graduate School in collaboration with Art and Philosophy at Central Saint Martins presents:
Catherine Malabou and Éric Laurent – Psychoanalysis and the Cognitive Sciences
(22 January 2015, Central Saint Martins).
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Catherine Malabou is Professor of Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. Her work focuses upon the inter-relationship between continental philosophy, neuroscience and recent discoveries in epigenetics through which she has developed the concept of ‘plasticity’. Her recent publications include ‘The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage’ (2007) and ‘Self and Emotional Life: Merging Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience’ (with Adrian Johnston, 2010).
Éric Laurent is a psychoanalyst and former president of the World Association of Psychoanalysis. Trained by Jacques Lacan in the 1970s, Éric Laurent was a member of the directorate of the École freudienne de Paris at the time of the School’s dissolution in 1980 and has been a member of the École de la Cause freudienne since its inception. He was editor-in-chief of La Cause freudienne from 1992 to 1994 and currently teaches within the framework of the Clinical Section of the Department of Psychoanalysis at University Paris-VIII.
The event is introduced by Professor Scott Wilson and Dr Véronique Voruz.