<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">ACU CONFERENCE:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span> FREUD, WITTGENSTEIN, AND THE UNCONSCIOUS<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">WHEN: 28-29 July, 2025.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">WHERE:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Level 18, Tenison Woods House, 8 - 20 Napier Street, North Sydney<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">FOR THOSE OUTSIDE OF SYDNEY: remote access is available via Zoom. Please email<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:talia.morag@acu.edu.au" style="color:rgb(150,96,125)">talia.morag@acu.edu.au</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>to access a link.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="OLE_LINK4"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">This conference takes up the Wittgenstein-Freud connection from a conceptual rather than an historical point of view. Wittgenstein famously criticized Freud’s notion of the unconscious as part of his general critique of scientism. In this conference we explore three main questions and other themes related to the unconscious:</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </span><span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">1.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">    <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Is a viable notion of the unconscious salvageable from Wittgenstein’s criticisms of Freud’s formulations of the unconscious? And, if so, what is its role in philosophy, psychoanalysis, or social critique?</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">2.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">    <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">What further insights about philosophy or psychology can be gleaned from rethinking Wittgenstein’s critique of Freud?</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">3.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">    <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Can Wittgenstein’s own work be seen as presupposing or dependent upon a notion of the unconscious? If so, what importance does that have for his philosophy?</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Naomi Scheman (Minnesota); Stephen White (Tufts)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SPEAKERS:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sophie-Grace Chapell (Open University, UK)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Justin Clemens (Melbourne)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Richard Colledge (ACU)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dorit Lemberger (Bar-Ilan)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">David Macarthur (Sydney)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Talia Morag (ACU)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Matthew Sharpe (ACU)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">THIS CONFERENCE IS FUNDED AND SUPPORTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Dr Talia Morag<div>Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Arts</div><div>Australian Catholic University | North Sydney NSW 2060</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>