Conference 'Interpretations of the exhibition', with Françoise Vergès

In this session, Françoise Vergès will offer her own reading of The Assault on Illusion to connect the works, mechanisms and representational strategies articulated in the exhibition with the central debates of her field of research and practice. In January 1964, the psychoanalyst Octave Mannoni published an article in Les Temps Modernes in which he dissected such a common expression as "I know, but even so...", placing it at the center of the specific questions of the "denial of ...