About this year’s theme:
The cornerstone of psychoanalysis is the
language of the unconscious and the
various forms it takes. When we talk to each
other about and within psychoanalysis, we
try to use language that is understandable.
Yet sometimes this very language conceals,
misleads, or thwarts our quest to make
meaning, so we end up knowing less rather
than more.
IFPE is celebrating its twentieth year with
Daring to Speak: Languages Spoken and
Unspoken. Join us as we occupy a place
between ideas yet to be spoken and
existing psychoanalytic knowledge. IFPE
seeks to enlarge our experience of
psychoanalysis by embracing the universal
struggle of moving from “wordlessness to
words.” We encourage everyone to risk
speaking that which has been difficult to
put into words, for whatever reason: fear,
resistance, amazement, shame, or surprise. We invite you to talk about the not-yetknown
and the unknowable.
IFPE welcomes psychoanalysts, scholars,
graduate students, researchers, social
workers, anthropologists, artists, literary
critics, filmmakers, historians - in short,
everyone who has a desire to explore the
languages of a psychoanalytic life.
This year’s conference is committed to
exploring the myriad ways we communicate
with each other. Let us talk, let us listen, let
us dare to speak about our passions and
differences, and risk being known. We invite
you to respond to this call for participation
with proposals of all kinds and in any
medium that expresses the spoken and
unspoken in psychoanalysis including
workshops, papers, panels, research, music,
poetry, and film.
Twentieth Annual
Interdisciplinary Conference