Hermeneutics, Psychoanalysis, and Literary Studies

International Conference at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin co-organized by the Department of the Theory and Anthropology of Literature (KUL) and the International Institute for Hermeneutics (Toronto)

Date: April 2, 2008

Place: John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, room CN 208

9:00-9:45

Andrzej Wierciński Understanding Ourselves as the Task of Interpretation: Dismantling the Postulate of a Presuppositionless Access to the Text

9:45-10:30

Andrzej Bronk The Rationality of Belief and the Prejudgmental Character of Interpretation

10:30-10: 45

Coffee time

10:45-11:30

Sean J. McGrath Hermeneutics and the Unconscious: The Mercurial Play of Interpretation in Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis

11:30:12:15

Edward Fiała The Evolution of the Psychoanalytic Hermeneutics of the Literary Work

12:15-14:00

Lunch time

14:00-14:45

Boyd Blundell On the Universal Claim of Hermeneutics

14:45-

Discussion on all papers