Upcoming Session - Kierkegaard Circle
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Topic:
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The Drive/Instinct as the Sickness Unto DeathSession Synopsis
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Speaker:
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Shawn Thomson
Lecturer
Departments of Humanities and Philosophy. York University
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Time:
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Friday, December 4, 2015
7:15 pm -10:00 pm
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Place:
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Divinity Common Room
Trinity College, Univ. Of Toronto
6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto
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Inquiry:
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Professor Abrahim H. Khan
Trinity College
Tel. 416 978-3039 (O), 416 978-2133(off. asst)
E-mail:khanah@chass.utoronto.ca
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Shawn Thomson is in the process of completing his dissertation - The Drive as Responsibility: Thinking-Through Sexuality & Ethics with Science, Freud, and Kierkegaard - as he continues training at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis
SYNPOSYS: Freud famously defined the drive - Trieb, also translated as "instinct" - as "a measure of the demand made upon the mind for work." My own work aims to demonstrate that we go further in conceptualizing the drive if we introduce into it Kierkegaard's notion of "works of love": the drive is a measure of the demand made upon the mind for works of love. In this presentation for the Kierkegaard Circle, I will be reading from a section of a larger project in which I argue that The Sickness Unto provides us with a profound framework for conceptualizing the human drive. Beginning with some reflections on the dynamic relationship among Kierkegaard, his pseudonyms, and "psychology", my paper will be focused on two concepts that are critical for thinking through the concept of the drive: the self as the relation that relates itself to itself as a relation and despair, especially the despair to will to be oneself.
Shawn Thompson is in the process of completing his dissertation - The Drive as Responsibility: Thinking-Through Sexuality & Ethics with Science, Freud, and Kierkegaard - as he continues training at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis
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