IŞIL BAYSAN SERİM
Home as a Space for Mythical, Poetic and Oneiric Encounters
Are we awake? I believe we are still sleeping, dreaming...
While Mexico is on fire, Minotauro’s three characters are half in deep hypnotic sleep and half awake in the apartment they live communally; the mutters of their unconscious desires turn into surreal-automatic poetry. The rapt light seeping through books and objects that are hallmarks of the place, creates the imaginary lines of the labyrinth, in which the half human-half Taurus Minotauro that the film is named after, is locked. Dreams and reality, myth and poetry are intertwined; and the apartment becomes a topography of surreal encounters.
BELLA HABİP
A Psychoanalytic Look at the Notion of Dual Temporality in the Psyche, and the Timelessness of Our Sleepless Age
The seed’s entrance to dormancy and its transition from a dormant state to the germinating state corresponds to the concept of latency in psychoanalytic theory, which is defined as entering a state of sleep during psychoanalytic therapy. Latency does not only refer to a hidden thing, and is not exactly a state of sleep. There also is a latent power. In that case, there exist both the time of entering the state of sleep and the time after waking up. The notion of entering into sleep and then waking up, points to dual-temporality in the psyche. We face a concept of double psychic time; one before sleep and one after. Dual-temporality is the cornerstone of psychoanalytic theory.
This talk will address the notion of latency in psychoanalytic theory within the context of Freud’s infantile sexuality and neuroses theory, and compare the dual functionality of our psyche, the sleeplessness of our constantly online contemporary world and its unidimensional temporality.