Professor Dany Nobus to receive Sarton Medal
The Sarton Committee of the University of Ghent has announced that Professor Dany Nobus, Chair of the Trustees of the Freud Museum London, will be awarded the 2016-17 Sarton Medal, in recognition of his many outstanding contributions to the history and theory of psychoanalysis.
The Strange Case of Madeleine Seguin: An Interview with William Rose
William Rose’s novel The Strange Case of Madeleine Seguin is set in the rich and decadent world of the intelligentsia in Fin de Siècle Paris.
Lacan on Love: An Interview with Bruce Fink
Can psychoanalysis – with ample assistance from philosophers, poets, novelists, and songwriters – give us a new perspective on the wellsprings and course of love?
Bodies that Stutter: Celebrity, Pornography and Psychoanalysis of Self-Representation-Gareth Longstaff
Using the original concept of 'Bodies that Stutter' this paper focuses on the representational intersections between celebrity and pornography online.
Freud’s ‘Three Essays’ and the Critique of Heteronormativity
This book presentation is devoted to the newly translated and annotated English edition of Freud’s 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Verso, 2016).
Author’s Talk: Eric Smadja
In Freud and Culture, we explore the representations of society and culture that Freud developed in the course of his work and we shall distinguish two periods.
Portraits of the Insane: Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy
Analytic psychotherapist and art historian, Robert Snell joins us to discuss his forthcoming book, Portraits of the Insane: Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy.
Conference: Wagner’s Parsifal and the Challenge to Psychoanalysis
The present conference is entirely devoted to Wagner’s final masterpiece, Parsifal, and explores whether this sublime, troubling and contentious work prefigures psychoanalytic insight or resists psychoanalytic interpretation.