Berkeley Psychoanalytic Society
Exploring the Unconscious: Arts, Science and the Humanities
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The Alterability of the Memory Trace
Saturday, April 23, 2016 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Dr. Martinez will present a critical reading of Freud’s 1925 text Note upon the Mystic Writing-Pad leading to a comparison of this model of the psychic apparatus with what Derrida describes as processes of inscriptionality, arriving at the important concept of alterability of the memory trace.
SPEAKER
Dr. Rosaura Martinez is a professor of philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and visiting professor at UC Berkeley.