Fantasy and Markets                           
                                10/23/2011 - 10/24/2011                               
12:15 pm - 3:00 pm                                                                         
                                              Cardozo School of Law
Jacob Burns Moot Court Room

Modern  legal scholarship has been dominated by the model of rationality by  neo-classical economic theory. Even proponents of "behavioral eonomics"  adopt the neo-classical model merely asserting that, as an empirical  matter, economic actors deviate from it in certain predictable ways.

The financial crisis that led to the Great Recession suggests that it is time to reconsider this model.

Lacanian psychoanalysis and speculative philosophy provide  perspectives to do so because they reject the entire framework of  economic rationality. If economics sees rationality as the ability of a  subject to formulate the means to achieve her pre-existing ends, these  theories see rationality as the ability of a subject to determine her  appropriate ends. Economic theory sees rationality as predictable, and  irrationality as chaotic behavior. Philosophy sees rationality as the  capacity for freedom understood as spontaneity; psychoanalysis argues  that it is the unconscious that is rigidly structured like a language.  Economics sees reason and passion as opposites. To philosophy and  psychoanalysis, they are corollaries–two sides of the same coin. Most  importantly, economics ignores the role of the unconscious and fantasy  in market behavior.

This conference will bring together a number of prominent scholars from around the world who have been studying the relationship of the subject to the market from the perspective of a number of disciplines including law, psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology and literary studies

Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011
Jacob Burns Moot Court Room

12:15–1:00 p.m.Welcome Reception

1:00–3:00 p.m. Panel I: Fantasies of Order and Violence
Jason Glynos, Senior Lecturer, Department of
Government, University of Essex
Bernard E. Harcourt, Julius Kreeger Professor of
Law and Professor and Chair of Political Science,
University of Chicago
Penelope Pether, Professor of Law,
Villanova University School of Law
Renata Salacl, Visiting Professor at BIOS Centre,
London School of Economics and Birkbeck College School of Law;
Senior Researcher Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Ljubljana;
and Recurring Visiting Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law

3:30–5:30 p.m. Panel II: Fantasies of Art and Science
David Caudill, Professor of Law, Arthur M. Goldberg Family Chair,
Villanova University School of Law
Franz Kaltenbeck, Psychoanalyst, Paris; Medical-Psychological
Service in the Prison of Lille, Centre Hospitalier Régional
Universitaire de Lille; Teacher of Psychoanalytic Clinic and Theory;
Director of Savoirs et clinique. Revue de psychanalyse
Henrietta Moore, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology,
University of Cambridge
Jeanne L. Schroeder, Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law

Monday, Oct. 24, 2011
Jacob Burns Moot Court Room

9:30–10:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

10:00 a.m–12:00 p.m. Panel III: Fantasies of Equality and Measure
David Gray Carlson, Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law
Genevieve Morel Kaltenbeck , Psychoanalyst, Paris, Lille;
Teacher of Psychoanalytic Clinic and Theory; President of
Savoirs et Clinique and CP-Aleph, Associations for Psychoanalysis
Laurent De Sutter, Senior Researcher, Fund Wetenschappelijk
Onderzoek, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Facultés Universitaires
Saint-Louis (Brussels); and Visiting Honorary Research Fellow,
Cardozo School of Law
Charles Yablon, Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law

12:00–1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30–3:00 p.m. Panel IV: Fantasies of Law and Economics
David Campbell, Professor of International Business Law,
University of Leeds School of Law
Pierre Schlag, Byron White Professor of Constitutional Law,
University of Colorado Law School
Yannis Stavrakakis, Associate Professor of Political Science,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Jamieson Webster, Psychoanalyst in Private Practice,
New York City; Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Eugene Lang College;
and Junior Member of Faculty, Institute for Psychoanalytic
Theory and Research

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Proposed Conference Program


Sunday, Oct. 23
1:00-3:00 p.m. Fantasies of Order and Violence

Jason Glynos
Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
The Place of Fantasy in a Critical Political Economy

Bernard E. Harcourt
Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
Desiring Order; Imagining Freedom

Penelope Pether
Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law
>Perverts,= >Terrorists,= and Business as Usual: Fantasies and Genealogies of U.S. Law

Renata Salacl
Visiting Professor at BIOS Centre, London School of Economics and Birkbeck College School of Law; Senior Researcher Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Ljubljana; and Recurring Visiting Professor of Law, The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Violence as a Response to the Ideology of Choice

3:30-5:30 p.m. Fantasies of Art and Science

David Caudill
The Arthur M. Goldberg Family Chair in Law, Villanova University School of Law
Expertise, Lab Lit, and the Fantasy of Science Free From Economics


Franz Kaltenbeck
Psychoanalyst, Paris, Lille and at the Medical-Psychological Service in the Prison of Lille (at the Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Lille; and Teacher of Psychoanalytic Clinic and Theory; Director of Savoirs et clinique. Revue de psychanalyse
An Artist=s Theory of Money

Henrietta Moore
William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Laughing Out Loud: Art as Cultural Fantasy

Jeanne L Schroeder
Professor of Law, The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Mad Money: Wall Street’s Obsession With Bonuses

Monday, Oct. 24
10:00 p.m.- 12 noon. Fantasies of Equality and Measure

Yannis Stavrakakis
Associate Professor of Political Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Beyond the Spirits of Capitalism?: Symbolic Authority, Fantasmatic Enjoyment and Social Change

Genevieve Morel Kaltenbeck
Psychoanalyst, Paris, Lille; Teacher of Psychoanalytic Clinic and Theory; President of Savoirs et Clinique and CP-Aleph, Associations for Psychoanalysis
Brands Counterfeit: Mass Fetishism?

Laurent de Sutter
Senior Researcher, Fund Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (Brussels); and Visiting Honorary Research Fellow, The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
The Kamis of Kapital@ ABecoming Pig@ According to Miyazaki=s Spirited Away

Charles Yablon
Professor of Law, The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Equality as a Norm in Securities Regulation

1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Fantasies of Law and Economics

David Campbell
Professor of International Business Law, School of Law, University of Leeds
Law and Economics as Welfare Economics

Pierre Schlag
Byron R. White Professor of Law, University of Colorado School of Law
Surviving Law and Economics

David Gray Carlson
Professor of Law, The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Measure as the Value of All Things

Jamieson Webster
Psychoanalyst in Private Practice, New York City; Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Eugene Lang College; and Junior Member of Faculty, Institute for Psychoanalytic Theory and Research
Points of Exchange and Stasis: A Reading of Freud and Lacan