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PROJECT OF CONFERENCE IN EATGA INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS - "The unexplored places of Transcultural G... more PROJECT OF CONFERENCE IN EATGA INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS - "The unexplored places of Transcultural Group Analysis between large multicultural groups, catastrophes and new subjectivities" (Ischia, May 4-5, 2018)

Abstract: A place of memory can be defined as a point of narrative crystallization of the collective memory (Binder, 2001), a place that can be material (such as a monument), symbolic (an anniversary, a pilgrimage) and functional (such as an autobiography) in which a group can recognize itself as well as its own story (Binder, 2001). Identity, both in its individual and collective dimensions, seems to us a continuous construction and elaboration of memories which are welcomed in places which, like spaces to return to in a continuous to-ing and fro-ing, run through the whole lives of men. Looking for oneself in the places of one’s own memory seems an original way of treating the subject of id-entity, but at this point we have to make a first limitation of the subject: by introducing a hyphen, we have to take into consideration the ‘Id’, the unconscious dimension of the identity. Psychoanalysis, as thought on the unconscious, and psychoanalysts, whom we can ask “Can psychoanalysis help us understand this dialogue between places of the memory and id-entity?”, make their entrance here. This question sprang from two different sources of inspiration (that are to be discussed in my talk): the importance of the ‘biographies of the unconscious’ (as one of the books by Salomon Resnik is entitled) (Resnik, 2006) as well as of sharing, so that memory, or rather remembering, keeps its significance.

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