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The Freud Museum and Maudsley Hospital Psychotherapy Unit
Supported by  School of Social Science, Humanities and Languages, University of Westminster

psychoanalysis and The Roots of Creativity (Part 1 Word and Image) Friday 13th July (Garden party at Freud Museum) Saturday 14th July 2007 (Conference at Westminster University)

 Freud confessed that the genius of the creative artist was a mystery to him, yet it was a mystery deeply relevant to his own practice. This event celebrates the centenary of Freud’s first published analysis of a work of literature (‘Delusions and Dreams in Jensen’s Gradiva’ 1907). It explores contemporary theories of creativity and the continuing importance of creativity in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

Speakers

James Fisher (Psychotherapist)
Alpha-function and the IMAGING Position: Sources of Creativity

Rael Meyerowitz (Psychoanalyst)
Reflections on Creativity and Despair: Meaning, Mourning and
(Im)mortality in Yeats and Freud

Margot Waddell (Psychoanalyst)
Internal landscapes: Psychoanalysis and the poetic imagination

Christopher Hauke (Jungian Analyst)
What Makes Movies Work?
Creativity, the Unconscious and the Film-makers’ craft.

Joan Raphael-Leff (Psychoanalyst)
The child within the artist: Generative identity and creativity

Plenary Session
Creativity in psychoanalysis

Chairs and interlocutors:
Sue Davidson (morning) & Anne Ward (afternoon)
from Maudsley Hospital  Psychotherapy Unit
 

Registration at the Door

Please register at 9.15 am on Saturday 14th July
(The conference will begin at 9.45 am)
at
The University of Westminster
309 Regent Street, London W1
(Between Oxford Street and the BBC. Nearest underground: Oxford Circus)

Full Price: £60     Trainees and students: £45

10% reduction for Friends of the Freud Museum.
 
 

Conference Secretary, The Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens, London NW3 5SX
Tel: 020 7435 2002  Fax: 020 7431 5452  Email: info@freud.org.uk
 

CPD accreditation certificates available for participants.

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