Timestamps:
00:00 - PANEL IV Introduction
01:43 - PANEL IV Henrik Jøker Bjerre
37:45 - PANEL IV Aleš Bunta
01:07:46 - PANEL IV Adam Potts
01:47:28 - PANEL IV Q&A
Henrik Jøker Bjerre (Aalborg University): The Ventriloquist: Kierkegaard's Extimate Voices
Was the authorial voice in Kierkegaard's works his own or did he delegate it to his pseudonyms? Drawing on sources in philosophy, psychoanalysis and literary studies, I will claim that it was both his own and not his own-and that his authorship is therefore best compared to the figure of the ventriloquist, rather than to that of the prompter, like he himself suggested.
Aleš Bunta (ZRC SAZU): The Paradox of Nietzsche's Knowledge
Within the Vienna psychoanalytic circle, very early on, the question of the so-called paradox of Nietzsche's psychological knowledge arose: how is it possible that Nietzsche anticipated some of the important insights of psychoanalysis, if in doing so he did not have at his disposal either clinical experience or all the techniques and methods that make up psychoanalytic science. To answer this question, the pioneers of psychoanalysis had to resort to two concepts-“introspection” and “monstrous intuition”-which not only psychoanalysis was reluctant to embrace, but Nietzsche himself was deeply suspicious of both. The main aim of my presentation is to try to reconstruct Nietzsche's own answer to this question. In doing so, I will focus in particular on the following two aspects. First, I will explain why Nietzsche thought that the indications of the collapse of the primacy of consciousness in philosophy had been ripe since Kant and had at most come to full expression in his own work as one of the necessary consequences of the “God is dead” event. And secondly, I will focus on two concepts that I believe form the core of Nietzsche's onto-psychology, namely the concept of the “embodied error” and the concept of the “internalisation of cruelty”, which also constitutes one of the key intersections with Freud's theory.
Adam Potts (Newcastle University): Poetry, Hope, and the Primal Scene
The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, this paper will argue that hope is a key aspect of Maurice Blanchot’s thinking in the late ‘60s, despite being completely overlooked in the literature. This hope will be described as essential to Blanchot’s “project”, a project best understood as a pursuit of the “Outside”. Secondly, in framing his work this way, this paper aims to create a space for thinking about possible connections between him and psychoanalysis. Although Blanchot wrote quite extensively about psychoanalysis, little critical attention has been paid to these writings, except for Joseph Kuzma’s detailed 2019 book Maurice Blanchot and Psychoanalysis. However, the aim here is not to argue for or against Kuzma’s reading, but to rather infer possible connections through this account of hope, the Outside, and Blanchot’s own version of the primal scene.