Event overview
Lisa Blackman gives a seminar in the CSISP What is Medicine? series
This talk will outline the importance of Julian Jayne’s (1976) book, The Origins of Consciousness in the Bicameral Mind and its relevance for those interested in affect theory, process, body studies and the vexed problem of subjectivity. The talk will discuss nineteenth century debates surrounding the ‘double-brain’, its re-articulation within contemporary brain imaging studies of voice hearing (auditory hallucinations), and the reduction of what the double-brain may allow us to do and think to a cognitive capacity seen to enable the ‘self-monitoring of inner speech’. The talk will draw on genealogical work on ‘attention’ (Crary) as well as work on the ‘skin ego’ (Anzieu) to refigure the problem of the ‘mental’ in ‘mental illness’ as a problem of distributed embodiment that cannot be contained by contemporary neuroscience nor affect theory unless we can adequately account for the problem of the ‘one and the many’; how we live singularity in the face of multiplicity. The talk will prioritise the importance and relevance of re-thinking ‘interiority’ in the context of this work.
Dates & times
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25 Feb 2009 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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