Monique David-Ménard has a double career, as a professor of philosophy and a practicing psychoanalyst. As the Director of the Centre d’études du vivant (2005-2011), she established the field of research “Gender and Sexualities” at the University Paris-Diderot/Paris 7. She has been invited to teach at universities worldwide: Ruhr University Bochum, Diego Portalès, Santiago de Chile, Universitad de Chile, Universitad de Sao Paulo, UNAM, Mexico, as well as Columbia University. As a psychoanalyst, she has been a member of the Société de Psychanalyse Freudienne since its foundation in 1994. She is also a co-founder of the ISPP (International Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy) and a member of the International Network of Women Philosophers (UNESCO).
Marcus Coelen (respondent) teaches comparative literature at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich and is a practicing psychoanalyst. He has taught psychoanalytic and literary theory at Columbia University, Université Paris Cité, Tel Aviv University and elsewhere. He translated, edited and commented extensively on authors such as Maurice Blanchot and Georges Bataille.
Please see the materials Monique David-Ménard has shared with us in preparation for the discussion at here and in the attached pdf.
With the support of the Literary Theory University Seminar, Columbia’s Department of French, Columbia’s Maison Française, and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Mark your calendars as well for the next event organized by the Affect Studies Seminar:
Friday, March 27, 5pm, Black Paint Lab @Teachers College
Nancy Lesko and Sarah Gerth van den Berg will lead a tour around the Black Paint Curriculum Lab at Columbia University’s Teachers College.
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