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PresentationIn the book review on Edwin Wallace&#8217;s Freud and Anthropology, Joan Mark argued that no &#8220;scientific discipline outside his own gave Sigmund Freud&#8217;s ideas such long-sustained and critical attention as did anthropology. Conversely, no other social or behavioral science so affected Freud&#8217;s thinking over the course of his long career&#8221; (1984:444). This statement reveals the long-lasting dialogue between anthropology and psychoanalysis, drawing our attention to the development of suchrelationship over the last one hundred years. In fact, anthropology&#8217;s influence on Freud&#8217;s theories is clearly acknowledged in one of his most provoking works, Totem and Taboo. Published in 1913, Totem and Taboo reflected Freud&#8217;s incursions into anthropological knowledge, presenting arguments that were inspired by evolutionist proposals, such as Frazer&#8217;s writings on the notion of the totem and about taboo beliefs and practices.The subtitle intrigued many anthropologists: Some points of agreement between the mental lives of savages and neurotics. Yet, what Freud suggested was a parallelism between individual and asocial forms of neurosis (as a subjective status) and certain &#8220;cultural products&#8221; such as taboos, animism and totemic beliefs. Thus, Freud showed how psychoanalysis could explain these phenomena and could be applied or implied in cultural formations as identification and defensive mechanisms.Although hardly avoiding intense criticism by anthropologists such as Boas and Malinowski, Freud&#8217;s theories did, however, have a profound impact upon anthropology, receiving an enthusiastic reception among Culture and Personality theorists during the middle decades of the 20th century. Leading anthropologists of this trend relied on Freud&#8217;s contributions to develop approaches based on the relationship between culture and personality, expanding their views on the importance of culture in personality formation, on the constitution of culture patterns and on the formulation of national character.One hundred years after the publication of Totem and Taboo (1913), this two-day seminar seeks to address the influence of Freud&#8217;s legacy in contemporary anthropological thought. It also aims to explore the new interface between the two disciplines, namely through the recent work produced on kinship and on the cognitive approaches to the study of religion.The seminar intends to bring together anthropologists and scholars in related disciplines whose research focuses on anthropology, culture and cognition by presenting their work and byengaging in fruitful academic debate and possible future co-operation.The seminar will include a keynote lecture, panel presentations (day one), and the screening movie of David Cronenberg&#8217;s A Dangerous Method by followed by a roundtable discussion (day two). An undergraduate student&#8217;s poster session will also be held during the seminar.OrganizerAnthropology Department/ CAPPSchool of Social and Political SciencesTechnical University of LisbonLisbon, PortugalVenue: ISCSP, LisbonProgramMarch 13th9.30 | Opening Session Auditorium 6, floor 0Alice Donat Trindade (Vice-President of ISCSP-UTL)Hermano Carmo (Chair of the Department of Anthropology &#8211; ISCSP-UTL)Maria de F&#225;tima Amante (Scientific Committee &#8211; ISCSP-UTL)10.00 &#8211; 10.45 Auditorium 6, floor 0Chair: Maria de F&#225;tima Amante (ISCSP-UTL)Professor Roland Littlewood (University College London)Freud, a century after Totem and Taboo10.45 &#8211; 11.00 | Coffee Break11.00 &#8211; 13.00 | Session 1: Freud and AnthropologyAuditorium 6, floor 0Chair: Catarina Casanova (CAPP-ISCSP-UTL)Fausto Robalo Amaro (CAPP-ISCSP-UTL)The incest taboo: a semiotic analysis of Freud&#180;s Totem and TabooManuela Harthley (Sociedade Portuguesa de Psican&#225;lise)Totem and Taboo revisitedDiana Espirito Santo (CRIA-FCSH)&#8216;Being there&#8217;? Remarks on the ecological &#8216;turn&#8217; in anthropology and its bearing on understandings of mind and cultureDiniz Cayolla Ribeiro (UP)Nietzsche and Freud on the genealogy of bad conscienceJos&#233; Gabriel Pereira Bastos (CRIA-FCSH)Para uma releitura p&#243;s-freudiana de &#8216;Totem e Tabu&#8217; no contexto de um projeto de Antropologia Te&#243;rica13.00 | Lunch Break14.00 &#8211; 16.00 | Session 2:&#160; Culture, Language and RitualAuditorium 6, floor 0Chair: Irene Rodrigues (ISCSP-UTL)Mario Machaqueiro (FCSH-UNL)Jo&#227;o Carlos Silva (Jorge Peixinho High School, Montijo)Inside and outside: from dark caves to bright societies. Psychoanalytic reading of Plato&#8217;s AllegoryMira Elif Dermirhan (Marmara University, Istanbul)A color naming study on Turkmen languageAna Rita Veleda Oliveira (CES/FLUC &#8211; UC)Anna Segher&#8217;s writing and the ritualization of traumaGon&#231;alo Veiga (ICS-UL)The evil eye: belief, cognition and causalityMarch 14th14.00&#160; &#8211; 15.45 | Film Session: A Dangerous Method (2011)Auditorium 7, floor -115.45 &#8211; 16.00 | Coffee Break16.00 &#8211; 17.15 | Round TableChair: T&#226;nia GanitoLu&#237;s Batalha (ISCSP-UTL)Fausto Amaro (CAPP-ISCSP-UTL)Marina Pignatelli (CAPP-ISCSP-UTL)Jos&#233; Gabriel Pereira Bastos (CRIA-FCSH)17.00 &#8211; 17.15 | Closing SessionAuditorium 7, floor -1Filipa Fernandes (ISCSP-UTL)Scientific CommitteeFausto AmaroHermano CarmoCeleste QuintinoLu&#237;s BatalhaCatarina CasanovaF&#225;tima AmanteMarina PignatelliExecutive CommitteeCatarina Casanova&#160;&#160;&#160;Filipa Fernandes&#160;&#160;Irene Rodrigues&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Maria de F&#225;tima AmanteMarina Pignatelli T&#226;nia Ganito