International Literature-and-Psychology Conference
Participants will need to purchase lunch tickets on arrival, 120 for the four-day
package. Lunches will be at the Conference Center. The city of Córdoba will pro-
vide folders with tourist and practical information.
Evening reception sponsored by Department of Filosofia y Letras at the Facultad
de Filosofía y Letras, Universitad de Córdoba, Plaza Cardenal Salazar, 3
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All papers will be given at the Facultad de Filosofia y Letras
Robert Silhol, A re-reading of Freud’s "Metapsychology," "Repression," "The
Peter L. Rudnytsky (Chair), Facts and Interpretations: The Quest for Truth in the
Session 2A. Salón de Actos Literature in Spanish
Jesús Sánchez-Garcia, Cognition of text, mind and body in the 20th century
María Rosario Quintana, De lo psicológico a lo literario: el caso de un escritor
Martin Sorbille (Chair), The Slaughterhouse: Echeverria and the anxiety of
Session 2B. Aula Magna 20th century British fiction
Lina Sierra Ayala, Times of peace and war: sequels and phobias in The Return
Maria Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaino, The waters of the mind: rhetorical pat-
terns of fluidity in Woolf, William James, Bergson and Freud
László Halász (chair), The psychology of the terrorist based on Doris Lessing’s
Session 3A. Aula Magna Feminist psychoanalysis
Alejandra Moreno Álvarez, Literary deconstruction of eating disorders in The
Maria Aline Ferreira (Chair), Katharine Burdekin’s revisions of Freud
Session 3B. Salón de Actos Poetic classics
Joanne Craig, "They knew them selues, and both their persons rad": friendship
Bagher Ghobary (Chair), Rumi’s psychological points on enhancing tolerance
Claire Hershman, Desperate Trojan housewives
Saundra Segan (Chair), Philoctetes and the transformation of the schizoid per-
John Higgins, ‘You Freud, me Jane?’ – psychoanalysis in Hollywood
Nancy Blake (Chair), "Che vuoi?": pleasure and the perverse symptom in the
Session 5A. Salón de Actos. Greek myths
Evangelia Diamantopoulou, “The excessive element of the hero in Nikos Egon-
Eleni Karasavvidou (with A. Karakitsios), (Chair), "`Once the hunter’: an inter-
cultural analysis of children's literature
Session 5B. Aula Magna 20th Century literature of War
Marta Fernández Morales, Shell-shock vs. battered woman syndrome: gender
and mental disorder in Emily Mann’s Theatre of War
Donald Vanouse (Chair), Issues in mourning concerning For Whom the Bell
Evening reception by the city of Córdoba of Cordóba at Alcazar del los Reyes
Cristianos. Appetizers, drinks, and flamenco recital.
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10:00 - 11:00 Session 6A. Salón de Actos French Literature
Esther Hernandez Longas, L’ énigme de l’affaire Papin dans la littérature et au
Nelly Kupper (Chair), Systems theory and the mother-daughter dyads in French
Bernd Dietz, Kien’s Madness in Canetti's Die Blendung
Aino-Maija Lahtinen (Chair), "Too much mystification?" – medical students’
responses to Thomas Mann’s The Black Swan
Ana Altaras, Implicit Conceptions of artistic creativity
Ivo Čermák (chair) and Martin Svanda, Poetry as a defense
Keiko Kimura, Mourning and Creativity: Sylvia Plath's Work
M. Luisa Pascual Garrido (Chair), Psychotic perception and literary construction
of the self: some Plathian images of an ordered chaos
Maria Dolores Martinez Reventos, Autobiographical writing as a selfobject
Patrick Brady (Chair), From Disempowerment to Re-empowerment: The
Ida Kodrlová and Ivo Cermak, Precursors to suicide in life and works of Sylvia
Dianne Hunter (Chair), The Disquieting Hugheses
Lunch (and luncheon meeting for organizers for 2006)
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Andrew Gordon "Envy": Cynthia Ozick meets Melanie Klein
Esther Sanchez-Pardo (Chair), Giving and receiving: gratitude and its routes in
Session 9B. Salón de Actos Poetry and Creativity
Camelia Elias, Portrait in pain: the psychology of inspiration in prose poems by
Haifa AlSanousi (Chair), Exploring self waves and identity through words
Session 10A. Aula Magna Modern and Postmodern
Sherry Zively, Madness and Modernism: Al en Ginsberg’s "Howl" – Fifty Years
Solange Leibovici, Hysteria and the postpostmodern novel
Session 10B. Salón de Actos 20th Century British Fiction
Karen Y. Lezama Morales, The portrait of a murderer: an approach to Eoin
Teresa Gutiérrez Rodríguez (Chair), Personality theories and their application to
the analysis of Abigail Morgan’s characters
Fabio Troncarelli, Gegen die Wand between Masud Khan and Donald Win-
Jim Swan (Chair), Virilio’s speed-up, Winnicott’s hesitation
Session 11B. Aula Magna 20th Century American Literature
Paula Martin Salván, "Our offering is language": speech and communication dis-
Aleksandar Dimitrijevic (Chair) An inquiry into possible origins of
psychoanalytic interest in Eugene O’Neill
Session 12A. Aula Magna 20th-21st Century British Fiction
Jorge Sacido-Romero, Don Quixote rides again: illusion and delusion in Con-
Claire Kahane (Chair), Love in the 21st century: enduring, or otherwise
Anca Cristofovici, Joyce Tennesson’s photographs: an aesthetics of aging
Brooke Hopkins (Chair), Optical illusion in Wordsworth and Proust
Walking tour of the city of Córdoba organized by the city of Córdoba of Córdoba
Flamenco show at Tablao Cardenal, 14 per person.
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Joanna M. Byles, Scenes from history: traumatic events and images in
Murray Schwartz (Chair), Willing Shakespeare: life and transference
Marie-France Rouart, Sex, Violence and the Sacred: A New Judas in 20th-
Rainer J. Kaus (chair), Plea for tolerance: Lion Feuchtwanger’s novel The Jewess
Bent Sørensen, Tourette in Fiction: Letham, Lefcourt, Hecht, Rubio, Byalick
Isabel Jaen, Literary Consciousness: Fictional Minds, Real Implications
Norman Holland (Chair), Don Quixote and the Neuroscience of Metafiction
Tour of the Romero de Torres (a Córdoban painter museum).
8:30BANQUET: At Bodegas Campos (within walking distance of hotels)
Guitar concert, sponsored by the city of Córdoba.
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