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<b>The Body of Desire: </b><br>
Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and the Arts<br>
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<address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">An interdisciplinary symposium <br>
on the complexities of the human body and its relation to desire.</span></font></b></span></address>
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<address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b><font
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<address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Graduate Centre for Study of Drama,
University of Toronto</span></font></b></span><span
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<address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b><font
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<address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><font
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b><font
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<address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Across
the full range of arts, works converge around the desire of a body, be
it that of the artist, that of the audience, or that of the artistic
process/work itself.  At this unique colloquium, leading artists from
the fields of music, dance, visual arts and the written and spoken
word, along with distinguished Lacanian psychoanalysts, will explore
the relationship between desire and creativity.</span></font></span><span
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<address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><font
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two-day program (Friday evening and Saturday) will consist of three
panel discussions, each with four panelists, and each devoted to a
particular theme.</span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span"
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<address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Part One:    </span></font></b></span></address>
<address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Desire and Body: An Exploration of
Commonalities and Differences across Paradigms</span></font></b></span></address>
<address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">An intersection of perspectives on the body,
desire, subjectivity, and “the other”</span></font></span><span
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<address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Part Two:   The Artist and Her Other</span></font></b></span><span
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<address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><font
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between artists and the audience/reader/viewer</span></font></span></address>
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<address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Part Three:  Psychoanalysis and the Artist</span></font></b></span></address>
<address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b><span
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Aiding artists suffering from a temporary
block in creativity</span></font></span></b></span></address>
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<address><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Confirmed Participants include psychoanalysts
from New York (</span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span
 class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Paola Mieli</span></font></b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">), France</span></font><span
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 style="font-size: 12px;"> (Jean-Michel Vives </span></font></span><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">and</span></font><span
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 style="font-size: 12px;"> Tamara Landau)</span></font></span><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Brazil</span></font><span
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 class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span"
 style="font-size: 12px;"> (Denise Maurano)</span></font><span
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 style="font-size: 12px;">, and Toronto (</span></font><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">David Dorenbaum</span></font></b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">, </span></font><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Mavis Himes</span></font></b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">) as well as Canadian artists from the fields
of music (</span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span
 class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">N</span></font></b></span><span
 class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b><font
 class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span"
 style="font-size: 12px;">orbert Palej </span></font></b></span><span
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 style="font-size: 12px;">and </span></font><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Russell Hartenberger</span></font></b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">), dance (</span></font><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Peggy Baker</span></font></b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;"> and </span></font><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Susanna Hood</span></font></b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">), visual arts (</span></font><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Mimi Gellman</span></font></b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;"> and </span></font><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Lyn Carter</span></font></b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">), and theatre (<b>Clare Coulter</b>, </span></font><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Marc Tellez</span></font></b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">, </span></font><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Ker Wells,</span></font></b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;"> and </span></font><b><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Bruce Barton</span></font></b><font
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The symposium will include a presentation of a work-in-progress <i>Swimmer
(68)</i> followed by a talkback with co-creators <b>Ker Wells</b> and <b>Bruce
Barton</b>. Closing comments by <b>Mark Stafford</b> (New York) will
be followed by a reception. </span></font></span></span></span></span><font
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Mavis Himes, Speaking of Lacan
Psychoanalytic Group</span></font></span></b></span></address>
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Christine Ardagh, Artists Health Centre
Foundation</span></font></span></b></span></address>
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 style="font-size: 12px;">Graham Wolfe and Bruce Barton, Graduate
Centre for Study of Drama</span></font></span></b></span><span
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