In light of the Special Issue on The Queerness of Babies of the Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society journal, co-edited by Misha Kavka and Diego Semerene, the Queer Analysis research group welcomes psychoanalyst Marie Couvert, one of the contributors to the Special Issue and a leading theorist on the clinic of babies, for a workshop on the theory of drives (from Freud to Lacan and beyond). The workshop will be preceded by a panel with Couvert, Kavka, Semerene, and respondent Samuel Ludmila Feline Constantin (PhD candidate on the Trans-Sexualities & Psychoanalysis project at the UvA), where we will stage an encounter of Queer Theory and Trans Theory with Psychoanalysis through the figure of the baby.

Suggested Readings (required for students seeking credit)

Marie Couvert, "The Baby and The Drive in the Face of Queer Theory"

Marie Couvert, Chapter 2: “The Theory of Drives: A Lacanian Reading of the Concept of Drive” in The Baby and the Drives

Diego Semerene, “Travesti Baby”

Sigmund Freud,  “The Instincts and Their Vicissitudes” (1915), Standard Edition 14, pp. 118-130. 

https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_Instincts.pdf

Sigmund Freud, “Note on the Child” published in Other Writings

https://lacancircle.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Note-on-the-Child.pdf

This is an in-person event. No streaming and no recording. 

To receive the readings that aren’t linked please email d.semerene@uva.nl by Nov. 27 at the latest.

Students who would like to receive 1 Credit must mention this in the email, attend the entire event, prepare all readings in advance and sign up  by Nov. 27 by sending an email from your institutional account to d.semerene@uva.nl with the following info: name, student number, email address and program/university.

Queer Analysis research group info and event list: https://asca.uva.nl/content/research-groups/queer-analysis/queer-analysis.html