IPA INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
INTRODUCTION
“No heart is more murderous than a woman’s when she is wronged in love”
Euripides
The story of Jason and the Argonauts’ voyage to steal the Golden Fleece from Colchida one of the oldest and most famous among Greek myths. Its development from the oldest layers of Greek mythology down to the modern age encapsulates the dramatic changes in faith, power and culture that Western civilization has seen over the past millenniums.
Medea’s character passed through a long way of interpretation from ancient literature until nowadays and inspired a great number of poets, writers and researchers. There is a large field for psychoanalytic inquiries.
Medea, as a mythical figure, represents a universal and multifaceted archetype-a symbol – and it is not surprising that, due to multi-functionality and significance, Medea’s image, an image of a powerful, omnipotent, pre-oedipal god-mother, is repressed into the unconscious of every female. In this sense the myth of Medea is a part of our intellectual, cultural and symbolic heritage.
Colchis, a powerful kingdom at the East of the Black Sea, which Greeks considered to be the edge of earth, was a place where they projected the archaic layer of the myth. Renounced by Hellenistic civilization, the myth of Medea represents a residence of archaic fantasies and wild passions repressed by Hellenistic culture. Nowadays Colchis is a part of Georgia, where the COWAP 2018 conference will take place.
Conference language is English. Lectures will be translated in Georgian.
Preliminary Program
Thursday, October 18, 2018
| 16:00: | Pre-conference workshop
Gila Ofer (Israel): The Law of the Mother |
| 18:00: | IPSO Supervision
Marianne Leuzinger Bohleber (Germany) |
Friday, October 19, 2018
Chair of morning sessions: Eva Reichelt (Germany)
| 08.30 | Registration |
| 09.00–09.30 | Opening Welcome Speeches: Giorgi Sharvashidze, Rector of Tbilisi State University,Tamar Gagoshidze, Dean of Tbilisi State University,Khatuna Ivanishvili (Georgia) Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp (Germany), Cristina Saottini (Italy): Maria Callas in Medea – Sequences from the Film by Pier Paolo Pasolini. |
| 09.30–10.30 | Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber (Germany): Medea – Revisited in Times of the European Refugee Crisis |
| 10.30–11:30 | Khatuna Ivanishvili (Georgia): Psychoanalytic Reflections on Medea |
| 11.30–12.00 | Tea break |
| 12.00–13.00 | Rosella Valdre (Italy): Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Power in Contemporary Fiction: Malice, the Victim and the Couple |
| 13.00–14.00 | Lunch |
Afternoon Parallel Workshops
| 14:00 – 15:30 | |
Workshop 1 |
Tatjana Pushkaryova (Ukraine): Premature Babies, Parent-Infant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Chair: Cristina Saottini (Italy) |
Workshop 2
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Paola Vizziello (Italy): Assisted Procreation and Homosexual Parenting
Chair: Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber (Germany) |
Workshop 3 |
Jones De Luca (Italy): The Myth of Medea: From “Constant Conjunctions” to Unthinkable Thoughts and their Clinical Consequences
Chair: Ekaterina Kalmykova (Russia) |
Workshop 4 |
Maia Kirchkheli (UK): Two Faces of Medea – From an Arrow to a Sword
Chair: Endel Talvik (Estonia) |
| 15.30–16.00 | Tea break |
| 16.00–18.00 | Presentation and Discussion of a Georgian film “Namme“, Director Zaza KHalvashi, discussants Tatyana Grachyova (Russia) and Eva Reichelt (Germany) |
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Chair of morning sessions: Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp (Germany)
| 09.30–10.30 | Endel Talvik (Estonia): Medea and Kirke: Femmes Fatales in Ancient Greece |
| 10.30–11.30 | Rusudan Tsanava (Georgia): Medea in the 21stCentury: A Symbol and a Narrative |
| 11.30–12:00 | Tea break |
| 12.00–13.00 | Elisabeth Skale (Austria): Medea: Fear of Female Violence |
| 13.00–14.00 | Lunch |
Afternoon Parallel Panels
| 14.00–15.30 | |
Workshop 5 |
Diana Pipinashvili (Georgia):
Medea: What is Female in Loss or Misuse of Creative Powers? Chair: Eva Reichelt (Germany) |
Workshop 6 |
Gamze Ozcurumez (Turkey): Medea and Lady Macbeth
Chair: Maia Kirchkheli (UK) |
Workshop 7 |
Jaap Ubbels (Netherlands): Femininity-Masculinity: the Unconscious, Ideology and Post-modernism
Chair: Christa Hack (Germany) |
Workshop 8 |
Ekaterina Kalmykova (Russia): Irreparable Damage
Chair: Andreas Bilger (Germany) |
| 15.30–16.00 | Tea break |
| 16.00–17.00 | Andreas Bilger (Germany): Living Art and Medea (Project with an Artist) |
| 17.00–18.00 | Plenary: Conclusions, Perspectives |
October 21, Sunday, from 10 am – Guided excursion and a picnic at the banks of the river Mtkvari
gertraud.schlesinger-kipp@dpv-mail.de
iv_khatuna@yahoo.com
cell phone: +995 599 942 212
Organisational Committee
Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp
KhatunaIvanishvili
Eva Maria Reichelt
Cristina Saottini
Fees
Up to August 31, 2018:Early bird fee
| IPA members and other working professionals: | 120 EURO |
| IPA candidates and international students: | 60 EURO |
| Georgian, Azeri, Armenian, Ukrainian working professionals: | 60 EURO |
| Georgian, Azeri, Armenian, Ukrainian candidates and students: | 35 EURO |
From September 01, 2018
| IPA members and other working professionals: | 160 EURO |
| IPA candidates and international students: | 80 EURO |
| Georgian, Azeri, Armenian, Ukrainian working professionals: | 80 EURO |
| Georgian, Azeri, Armenian, Ukrainian candidates and students: | 55 EURO |
Payment
FOR EUR TRANSFER
INTERMEDIARY:
DEUTSCHE BANK AG
FRANKFURT/MAIN, GERMANY
SWIFT: DEUTDEFF
BLZ: 50070010
BENEFICIARY’S BANK:
HEAD OFFICE SWIFT: TBCBGE22
JSC TBC Bank
SWIFT: TBCBGE22
BEN’S Account:
GE46 TB71 2473 6120 1000 02
Sakartvelos psikoanalitikuri psikoterapiis sazogadoeba
INTERMEDIARY:
COMMERZBANK AG
FRANKFURT/MAIN, GERMANY
SWIFT: COBADEFF
BLZ: 50040000
BENEFICIARY’S BANK:
HEAD OFFICE SWIFT: TBCBGE22
JSC TBC Bank
SWIFT: TBCBGE22
BEN’S Account:
GE46 TB71 2473 6120 1000 02
Sakartvelos psikoanalitikuri psikoterapiis sazogadoeba
INTERMEDIARY:
RAIFFEISEN BANK INTERNATIONAL AG
VIENNA, AUSTRIA
SWIFT: RZBAATWW
BENEFICIARY’S BANK:
HEAD OFFICE SWIFT: TBCBGE22
JSC TBC Bank
SWIFT: TBCBGE22
BEN’S Account:
GE46 TB71 2473 6120 1000 02
Sakartvelos psikoanalitikuri psikoterapiis sazogadoeba
Location:
Some Hotels Nearby Ivane Javakhishvli Tbilisi State University
The cave cluster in the center of Uplistsikhe
Uplistsikhe Cave Town Fortress is one hour drive from Tbilisi. Its history begins in the I.–II. millennium B.C. Strategically located in the heartland of the ancient kingdom of Kartli (or Iberia,as it was known to the Classical authors), Uplistsikhe is identified by archaeologists as one of the oldest urban settlements in Georgia. Uplistsikhe was an important religious, political and cultural center in the Hellenistic and the late Antique periods (IV. century B.C. – IV. century A.D.).The town’s age and importance led medieval Georgian written tradition to ascribe its foundation to the mythical Uplos, son of Mtskhetos, and grandson of Kartlos.[1]
Guided excursion and a picnic at the banks of the river Mtkvari
October 21, Sunday, from 10 a.m.