{"id":484,"date":"2019-02-03T20:33:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T20:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2021-05-05T11:35:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T10:35:46","slug":"event-desire-in-the-era-of-neoliberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Desire in the Era of Neoliberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>An event exploring modern desire from the perspective of psychoanalysis and Todd Haynes&#8217; movie [SAFE]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-586 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/poster1010-copy-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/poster1010-copy-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/poster1010-copy-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/poster1010-copy-724x1024.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is little doubt that in modern society the desire of the subject is capitalised by neoliberal practices, which influences both the way in which desire manifests and the objects that it seeks. But how exactly is it exploited and manipulated by neoliberalism? In this talk Claudia Di Gianfrancesco will seek to address some of the current debates surrounding core aspects of neoliberal ideology by critically exploring the notion of desire. To this end, a quote by Margaret Thatcher will be analysed through Lacan\u2019s University discourse, and consequently, neoliberal narratives surrounding accountability, \u2018perfectibility\u2019 and consumerism will be examined. Parallels between Todd Haynes\u2019 movie [SAFE] and Lacan\u2019s notions of the \u2018divided subject\u2019 and desire will be critically reviewed within the neoliberal-University frame, by screening clips from the movie. Lastly, Kristeva\u2019s and Ettinger\u2019s notions of abjection and matrix respectively will be discussed to forward both ways in which it is possible to resist the master signifier of neoliberalism; and to criticize Lacan\u2019s conception of subjectivity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Claudia Di Gianfrancesco<\/strong> is a postgraduate student in Psychosocial Studies (MA) at Birkbeck, University of London.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date &amp; Time<\/strong>: Monday 25 February at 18:30 &#8211; 20:00<br \/>\n<strong>Place<\/strong>: University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square, Lecture Theatre (G.03)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free with ticket via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/desire-in-the-era-of-neoliberalism-tickets-55869001688\">Eventbrite<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An event exploring modern desire from the perspective of psychoanalysis and Todd Haynes&#8217; movie [SAFE]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-past-events"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}