The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture (CSPC) is a trans-disciplinary center - or faculty of eccentric actors - devoted to preserving and developing the radical dimension of the Freudian discovery. We understand
- The unconscious to be without territory (thus resistant to dominant strategies of appropriation and colonization);
- The clinic or practice of psychoanalysis to consist of symbolic interventions aimed at treating the real (and thus antithetical to the drug-peddling and pastoral practices of today's "health professions" whose purpose is the sedation of subjects);
- Critique to be necessarily immanent (thus opposed to the historicist distortion, which makes history a meta-reality).
CSPC does not offer degrees; graduate students wishing to study at the CSPC are thus advised to apply to a degree-granting program at the University at Buffalo. Once admitted into one of these programs, students may declare a concentration in psychoanalysis and work at the CSPC.
Center Director: Joan Copjec
Center Faculty: Joan Copjec (English), Tim Dean (English), Graham Hammill (English), Steven Miller (English), Kalliopi Nikolopoulou (Comparative Literature), Ramon Soto-Crespo (Romance Languages & Literatures), Henry Sussman (Comparative Literature), Ewa Ziarek (Comparative Literature).
Please direct inquiries to psycult@acsu.buffalo.edu