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<h3><em>Tosquelles and Canguilhem: A Pathbreaking Encounter</em><br />Henning Schmidgen</h3>
<p>In the summer of 1944, philosopher Georges Canguilhem spent several weeks hiding and caring for wounded patients in the psychiatric clinic of Saint-Alban as a ‘resistance-physician’. During this time, Canguilhem took part in the clinical work carried out at Saint-Alban, among other things by examining and observing the patient ‘Mme. C…’. In return, as it were, Tosquelles, Bonnafé and others read and discussed the medical thesis that Canguilhem had defended at the Université de Strasbourg in 1943, the famous <em>Essay on Some Problems Concerning the Normal and the Pathological</em>. My paper explores the convergences between the psychological views of Canguilhem and Tosquelles. It focuses on questions concerning the status of mental illness (and queerness) and the ‘normativity’, i.e., the autonomy, of organic individuals.</p>
<h4>This audio will be released today, 4 December, at 18:00 CET.</h4>
<p><a href="https://transversal.at/audio/"><strong>https://transversal.at/audio/</strong></a><br /><a href="https://transversal.at/blog/queer-tosquelles-audio-series"><strong>https://transversal.at/blog/queer-tosquelles-audio-series</strong></a></p>
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<h3><em>Three Billion Perverts: Tosquelles and the Politics of the Body</em><br />Elena Vogman</h3>
<p>In his research on ‘extensive psychiatry’ and myokinesis with Mira i Lopez in Catalonia, and then on his flight from the Franco regime to France via the concentration camp Septfonds, Tosquelles conceived of the human body as perpetually moving— ‘always a migrant’. Displacement, foreignness, madness became for him essential features of being human. They constituted the point of departure not only for the geo-psychiatric, aesthetic, and environmental approach to psychiatric care at Saint-Alban, but also for ‘the politics of the body’ advanced within the framework of ‘institutional analysis’ at La Borde clinic. This presentation focuses on the censored issue of the journal Recherches, founded by CERFI and directed by Félix Guattari, with the title ‘Three Billion Perverts. The Big Encyclopedia of Homosexualities’ (1973). Following Foucault, the talk analyses in the anonymous and collective contributions to this issue the political and aesthetic means of regaining ‘possession of [one’s] own body, and of the bodies of others […] for purposes other than [their] use as a workforce’.</p>
<h4>This audio will be released on 11 December at 18:00 CET.</h4>
<p><a href="https://transversal.at/audio/"><strong>https://transversal.at/audio/</strong></a><br /><a href="https://transversal.at/blog/queer-tosquelles-audio-series"><strong>https://transversal.at/blog/queer-tosquelles-audio-series</strong></a></p>
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<p>Lectures given at the international conference “<em><strong>QUEER TOSQUELLES - Anti-Fascism, Vagabonding Psychiatry, Non-Identitarian Lives</strong></em>” on 22 June 2024 at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne (KHM) - <a href="https://www.khm.de/queertosquelles/">https://www.khm.de/queertosquelles/</a>.</p>
<p><br />The annual programme of eipcp is supported by: Foundation for Arts Initiatives, City of Vienna Culture.</p>
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