This program offers seminars and conferences on philosophy and psychoanalysis, in order to articulate advanced study in psychoanalytic theory and philosophy, collaborating with clinicians and researchers in the field of “culture and representation”. Our goal is to open up, on the basis of coordinated multidisciplinary research, a new global perspective on culture, whether oriental and occidental, as it implies different vehicles destined to assure the expression of desire, which have been radically put into question by the psychoanalytic notion of the Unconscious. In this program, we will study the “aesthetics” of desire. This is not only because the arts will be one of our privileged references, but also because through studying cultural forms of the mediation of desire, we are posing an essentially critical question, in the Kantian sense of the term, namely, how is the experience of desire possible for us.
In addition to the program director’s seminars, we will organize conferences and seminars by guest researchers, as well as international conferences abroad. The program is conceived as a way to encourage researchers to connect their own field to other neighboring fields, and to support young researchers who wish to broaden their field of activity on an international scale, by giving them the opportunity to participate in scientific exchange with foreign researchers and even to organize such exchanges themselves.
We hope that this program as a pilot program will allow researchers who share our interest in a fruitful relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis to find experienced scientific interlocutors both at home and abroad, and that this will serve as a basis for research activities in this field in Japan.
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