Vladimir Nabokov

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60th anniversary seminar on Nabokov's "Signs and Symbols": call
for speakers
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I am organising for Sunday 11 May 2008, at Regent's College Conference
Centre, London, a seminar celebrating the 60th anniversary of the publication (on
15 May 1948 in The New Yorker) of Vladimir Nabokov's short story "Signs and
Symbols", described by Brian Boyd, the Nabokov biographer and expert, as one
of the greatest short stories ever written. In recent years there have been a
number of interpretations of it, for example by Alexander Dolinin and
Alexander Drescher. I have myself suggested on NABOKV-L a new way of approaching the
story with implications for psychiatry and psychotherapy. I hope a number of
speakers will contribute to this seminar. Please contact me at
_stadlen@aol.com_ (mailto:stadlen@aol.com) if you wish to contribute a talk or paper, or
attend.

The seminar is No. 127 in the Inner Circle Seminars, which I founded in
1996. For details see below.


INNER CIRCLE SEMINARS for 2008

Seminars on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
(But: Swales seminar 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.)
Conducted by Anthony Stadlen unless otherwise stated.

Venue: Regent’/s College, Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, London NW1.

Cost: students £88, others £110 for seminars IN ADVANCE (PLEASE NOTE THAT
THERE WILL BE A VERY EARLY DEADLINE FOR BOOKING EACH OF THE AUTUMN SEMINARS);
some bursaries; £5 for mothers-with-babies on 16 March; reductions for a
calendar or academic year’s seminars; no refunds unless seminar cancelled.

Apply to: Anthony Stadlen, 'Oakleigh', 2A Alexandra Avenue, London N22 7XE
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8888 6857 Email: _stadlen@aol.com_
(mailto:stadlen@aol.com)

10 February 2008: Room C
Inner Circle Seminar No. 124
FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON THE BUBER-ROGERS DIALOGUE
16 March 2008: Room C
NAOMI and ANTHONY STADLEN CONDUCT
Inner Circle Seminar No. 125
MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY: CENTENARY SEMINAR
THE CHILD'S RELATIONS WITH OTHERS
A CRITICAL RE-EVALUATION
13 April 2008: Room C
Inner Circle Seminar No. 126
WILHELM REICH: ORGASM AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
11 May 2008: Room C
Inner Circle Seminar No. 127
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
SIGNS AND SYMBOLS: 60 YEARS ON
18 May 2008: Room C
Inner Circle Seminar No. 128
MAX SCHELER (22 August 1874 – 19 May 1928)
THE NATURE OF SYMPATHY
22 June 2008: Room C
RICHARD SKUES CONDUCTS
Inner Circle Seminar No. 129
SIGMUND FREUD AND THE HISTORY OF ANNA O.:
REOPENING A CLOSED CASE
14 September 2008: Room C
ALICE HOLZHEY CONDUCTS
Inner Circle Seminar No. 130
(SERIES ON DASEINSANALYSIS)
THE TWOFOLD MEANING OF FEELINGS: ONTIC AND ONTOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ANXIETY,
GUILT AND SHAME.
Final date for subscription: 14 March 2008.
12 October 2008: Herringham Hall
JEFFREY SCHALER CONDUCTS
Inner Circle Seminar No. 131
ADDICTION IS A CHOICE
Final date for subscription: 12 April 2008.
26 October 2008: Room C
PETER J. SWALES CONDUCTS
Inner Circle Seminar No. 132
(12-hour seminar: 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.)
WHO WAS WILHELM FLIESS?
(24 October 1858 – 13 October 1928)
150TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION:
DEMYTHOLOGISING THE PSYCHOANALYTIC MYTH OF FLIESS AS FREUD'S "OTHER"
Final date for subscription: 26 April 2008.
9 November 2008: Room C
MARIE BALMARY CONDUCTS
Inner Circle Seminar No. 133
Title to be announced
Final date for subscription: 9 May 2008.
7 December 2008 (Room to be announced)
HANS-JÖRG RECK
(with the help of TAMAS FAZEKAS, HANS-DIETER FOERSTER, MARIANNE JACCARD, UTA
JAENICKE and ANTHONY STADLEN
CONDUCTS

Inner Circle Seminar No. 134
(SERIES ON DASEINSANALYSIS)
Provisional title: DASEINSANALYTIC OPENINGS
Final date for subscription: 7 June 2008.


Anthony Stadlen founded the Inner Circle Seminars in 1996, as an
interdisciplinary search for truth in psychotherapy and its foundations. The seminars
are held once a month, on Sundays, and last all day. Most are conducted by
Anthony Stadlen, but many have been conducted by distinguished authorities in a
number of disciplines, from all over the world, including Alessandra Comini,
Antony Flew, "Emma Gold", Tom Greeves, David Harsent, John Heaton, Susannah
Heschel, Sheila Kitzinger, Claudia Koonz, Franz Maciejewski, Malcolm
Macmillan, Rodney Mariner, Sarah Menin, Nigel Reeves, Gitta Sereny, Sonu Shamdasani,
Martti and Ann-Helen Siirala, David Singmaster, Richard Skues, Naomi Stadlen,
Peter Swales, Thomas Szasz, Terry Tanner, Michael Tregenza, Antti Vihinen.
The seminars themselves have an international reputation. They study
thinkers whose work is of incalculable importance for the foundations of
psychotherapy and related disciplines: Binswanger, Bleuler, Boss, Buber, Coleridge,
Cooper, Esterson, Flew, Flournoy, Freud, Heaton, Heidegger, Heschel, Husserl,
Jung, Kierkegaard, Laing, Levinas, Lomas, Merleau-Ponty, Myers, Nabokov, Patoč
ka, Rogers, Schaler, Scheler, Schiller, Siirala, Straus, Szasz, von
Hildebrand. The seminars are Continuing Professional Development for advanced
professionals, but they are also a safe place for students of psychotherapy and other
disciplines to explore perplexities. You may attend any or all. You will
receive a certificate of attendance.
Anthony Stadlen has practised since 1970 as an existential-phenomenological
analyst. He is registered as an existential psychotherapist by the UKCP (SEA,
SPCRC) and as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist by the BPC (LCP) and the UKCP
(AIP). He is an Honorary Visiting Fellow of the School of Psychotherapy and
Counselling, Regent’s College, London. He is a former Research Fellow of the
Freud Museum, London. His research has been sponsored by the Department of
Philosophy at the University of Essex and supported by the Nuffield Foundation. He
received the 2003 Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Services to the
Cause of Civil Liberties (professional category) from the Center for Independent
Thought, New York City.





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