Twenty years ago, Cynthia Fleury wrote an essay titled Métaphysique de l’imagination which looked at western and eastern ideas of reality. How can we account for reality without eroding its mystery? Is the imagination a creative faculty that gives rise to a real or unreal world?
At this event, these questions will be discussed in relation to psychoanalytical concepts presented by Clarence Crafoord: the ontogenesis of humans and the phylogenesis of our species, the conscious and unconscious mind, emotions, the analytical third… The discussion will also focus ont he imagination as a creative force in religion, art and poetry.
Born in Paris in 1974, Cynthia Fleury is professor of Humanities and Health at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Paris (Mines-ParisTech). Métaphysique de l’imagination is the first of many books she has written or co-written since the early 2000s.
Born in 1936 in Stockholm, Clarence Crafoord is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author. He was one of the pioneers of new Swedish psychiatry in the 1970s. For the past 30 years he has co-edited the Swedish culture and psychoanalysis magazine Divan, which will be publishing the conversation with Cynthia Fleury.
In collaboration with Divan magazine.
Useful information
- Auditorium and bar run by café FIKA will open at 18:30.
- Conversation in French.