Sigmund Freud Museum
Berggasse 19
1090 Wien
21. Oktober 2016, 20:00 Uhr (Keynote)
22. Oktober 2016, 09:30 - 13:30 Uhr (Panel Talks)
The Sigmund Freud Museum's 2016 autumn conference is devoted to the theme of "new subjectivity". In a world which is dominated by new ways of communication, by technology that subverts the perception of the body, by the new organisations of the family and groups and by global violence, we are witnessing an overflowing of the subject. The cult of the body and of youth, the desire to procreate also without the shared will of the couple, the lack of a collective conscience, etc. tell us about a "dislocated" subject.
The conference which opens with the keynote lecture „Yes, we zombies can" by the Italian semiologist Paolo Fabbri, discusses two aspects of this dislocation of the subject: 1) an "embodied dislocation", in which the subject, identified with the physical body, reacts by altering this location and technically modifying its appearance or functions, and 2) "disembodied dislocation", where the subject relocates to a non-physical world of chatrooms, avatars and self-representations within a virtual, globalised reality.
