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TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature

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  • Profile picture of Amel Abbady

    Amel Abbady deposited “The past goes to sleep, and wakes up inside you”: Identity Crisis in Hassan Blasimʼs “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” in the group Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago

    This article examines “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes,” the last of the fourteen stories that comprise Iraqi writer Hassan Blasimʼs collection The Corpse Exhibition. In “The Nightmares” Blasim is not concerned at all about depicting the reception of refugees in Europe. As evident in the title itself, what is central to the story is the psycholo…[Read more]

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    Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago

    The main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]

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    Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago

    The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]

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    Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago

    The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Gautam Basu Thakur

    Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago

    The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Gautam Basu Thakur

    Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago

    The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]

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    Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: MLA 2024–Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis (Guaranteed Panel) in the discussion Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 6 months, 4 weeks ago

    The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on queer theory and psychoanalysis. We particularly welcome theoretical and archival scholarship that centers LGBTQI+ theorists, artists, intellectuals, and writers. Queer theory embraces p…[Read more]

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    Dorothy Stringer started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations For Assembly Delegate in the discussion Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 8 months ago

    The TC Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly. Running for Delegate is a good way to become more involved in Forum activities and to make connections with colleagues who share your scholarly interests. To forward your own or a colleague’s name, or to…[Read more]

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    Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 8 months ago

    Languages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]

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    Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2023 MLA Convention in the discussion Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 8 months, 3 weeks ago

    The Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature is pleased to announce five panels at MLA 2023 (including some postponed from 2022). The full list can be accessed at this link. We hope to see you there!

  • Profile picture of Leigh A. Neithardt

    Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 10 months, 1 week ago

    The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

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    Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: US Literatures and Psychoanalysis (MLA 2023) in the discussion Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago

    What does psychoanalysis do for theory, criticism, and scholarship in US literatures today? Conversely, how do US literatures intervene on psychoanalysis?

    The MLA’s Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature has noted extraordinary scholarly interest in these questions recently. We therefore invite a…[Read more]

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Gene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]

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    Dorothy Stringer started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Race, Theory and the Practice of Psychoanalysis in the discussion Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago

    Greetings! This message is to announce a CFP for MLA 2022. Please consider submitting an abstract! Please circulate widely!

    The concise version is available on the main MLA Convention web site, but an expanded and detailed version is included here:

    Race, Theory, and the Practice of Psychoanalysis

    • How does the category of race allow for new…

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  • Profile picture of Kate Pond

    Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago

    This autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]

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    Dorothy Stringer started the topic Executive Committee Candidate's Statement–Dorothy Stringer in the discussion Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    Greetings, everyone! I’ve been nominated for a seat on the Executive Committee, so I’d like to tell the membership a little about myself. I work in African American and US 20th-century literatures. My first book was on trauma theory and references to slavery in modern literature and photography, and my current project describes appropriations,…[Read more]

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    Kate Pond started the topic My Graduate research… in the discussion Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years ago

    Hello MLA fam…

    I’m trying my hardest to get this survey distributed through every FREE method I can. If you are interested in the spaces where Literature and Psychology meet- I need your input. If you are feeling helpful, why not share this link on another…[Read more]

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    Max Cavitch started the topic Psyche on Campus: a new blog of possible interest to the group in the discussion Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months ago

    Greetings,

    In August 2019, I launched Psyche on Campus: a blog about teaching psychoanalysis in the undergraduate classroom (and beyond).  I hope you’ll check it out and, if you like it, subscribe (it’s free to do so, and you’ll receive an email announcement each time a new post is published–about once per month).  If you have any idea for a p…[Read more]

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    Jesse Miller deposited Antinomian Remedies: Rehabilitative Futurism, Towards a Better Life , and Kenneth Burke’s Modernist Equipment for Living in the group Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago

    This essay examines the relationship between modernist formal experimentation and rehabilitative futurism, the modern cultural fantasy of a hygienic future in which all illness and disability have been eradicated. Through a reading of Kenneth Burke’s early essay collection Counter-Statement (1931) and his first and only novel, Towards a Better…[Read more]

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Essays on the Lord of the Rings in the group Group logo of TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and LiteratureTC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months ago

    Full collection of four essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” comprising “Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure,” “Reader’s Guide to the Fellowship of the Ring,” “Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers,” and “The (True) Lord of the Ring.” Emphasis throughout is to suggest that it is not just wise but essential to encounter very, very…[Read more]

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