The Trouble With Universals: Psychoanalysis, Race, & A New Logic of Group Formation

The Trouble with Universals: Psychoanalysis, Race, and a new Logic of Group Formation

Ed Pluth, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Chico

Some claim that psychoanalysis has led to the discovery of a new logic of universals that is based on the idea of the not-all. This talk will explore how clinicians and academics are using this idea for thinking about group formation and racism. How does this logic handle the problems with exclusion that the formation of every universal faces?

Sponsored By: The Department of History, French & Francophone Studies, and the College of Liberal Arts