Aleksandar Fatić (Serbia)
Aleksandar
Fatić (Serbia) - PhD, Full Professor, Institute for Philosophy and Social
Theory, University of Belgrade. PhD in
Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, 1996. Project director
and Professor, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. President, Serbian
Association of Applied Humanities. Author of Virtue as identity: Emotions and
the moral personality (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016) and numerous other titles.
Language and intentionality in psychodiagnostics and psychotherapy (Lecture)
Presentation Language: English
The lecture will summarize key insights with
regard to the role of intentionality in Brentano's and Searle's meaning of the
words in understanding modern positivist psychodiagnostics and its pitfalls. It
will elaborate on the practicalities of establishing initial contact with
clients by using language and language games as the initial context. The
lecture will pinpoint some of the Lacanian views of language as the medium in
which 'the subconscious is already dissipated' and discuss potential ways in
which these theoretical views can be put to practical application.