Lecture in English by Pamela Cooper-White (Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis)

Response: Jeanne Wolff Bernstein (Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität) and Herman Westerink (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Friday, 17 Jaunary 2014, 7 p.m.
Sigmund Freud Museum / Lounge
Berggasse 19, 1090 Wien

Admission free, please register: veranstaltung@freud-museum.at

Sabina Spielrein has mostly been known, if at all, as the patient with whom Carl Jung became romantically involved, and who then turned to Freud for advice. While the boundary violation alarmed Freud and became the catalyst for his technical papers on transference, Spielrein's own intellectual contributions have seldom been acknowledged. It is as if this early trauma in the history of psychoanalysis and analytic psychology created a dissociative erasure of Spielrein's story and her work. This lecture will offer a look into Spielrein's own work as an analyst and theorist with particular emphasis on the paper she read for admission to Freud's Vienna Circle around the time of the "great divorce" between Jung and Freud. The goal of this evening will be to demonstrate how Spielrein's little known ideas--including an early version of Freud's death instinct--give evidence for Spielrein's rightful place as a pioneer of psychoanalysis.

Pamela Cooper-White is the Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis in Fall-Winter 2013-14, researching the treatment of religion in Freud's early Vienna circle, and teaching a seminar on Freud and Religion at the University of Vienna. She serves as the Ben G. and Nancye Clapp Gautier Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling and Co-Director of the Atlanta Theological Association's Th.D program in Pastoral Counseling at Columbia Theological Seminary near Atlanta, GA She holds Ph.D.s from Harvard University and the Institute for Clinical Social Work, Chicago. Her publications include Braided Selves: Collected Essays on Multiplicity, God, and Persons (2011), Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy and Theology in Relational Perspective (2007), and The Cry of Tamar: Violence against Women and the Church's Response (1995; 2nd ed. 2012).

Herman Westerink is scholar in the field of the psychology of religion, specialized in Freudian psychoanalysis. Currently he is Senior Lecturer at the Titus Brandsma Institute and at the Department of Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen (NL). He is member of the International Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy and of the ISPP Freud Research Group (and member of the Sigmund Freud Museum’s Scientific Advisory Board). He has published a number of monographs and articles, most recently The Heart of Man’s Destiny: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Early Reformation Thought (London 2012), A Dark Trace. Sigmund Freud on the Sense of Guilt (Leuven 2009) and Controversy and Challenge. The Reception of Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis in German and Dutch-speaking Theology and Religious Studies (Vienna/Berlin 2009).

 Jeanne Wolff Bernstein is the past president, and supervising and personal analyst at PINC (Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California). She is on the faculty at PINC and at the Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Vienna, Paris and NYU Post-Doctoral Program für Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She was the 2008 Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Museum and member of the Sigmund Freud Museum’s Scientific Advisory Board. Her most recent publications include “Beyond the Bedrock” in Good Enough Endings, edited by Jill Salberg, Routledge Press (2010), and “The space of transition between Winnicott and Lacan” in Between Winicott and Lacan, edited by Lewis Kirschner, Routledge Press (2011).

3D-Screening of two short films by the New York based filmmaker and artist Zoe Beloff, enevent of the Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft tfm (Vienna University) in Cooperation with the Sigmund Freud Foundation

Friday, 24 January 2014, 7 p.m.
in English
Sigmund Freud Museum / Lounge
Berggasse 19, 1090 Wien

Admission free, please register: veranstaltung@freud-museum.at

Charming Augustine (2005, OV, 40 min.)

http://www.zoebeloff.com/pages/augustine.html

Shadowland or Ligth from the Other Side (2000, OV, 32 min.)

http://www.zoebeloff.com/pages/shadowland.html

Zoe Beloff is an artist who works with a wide variety of media including film, performance, installation, and drawing. She considers herself a medium, an interface between the living and the dead, the real and the imaginary. Each project aims to connect with and reanimate the past so that it might illuminate the future in new ways. She is interested in exploring utopian ideas of social progress. Her current project is “The Days of the Commune: A Work in Progress,” which she is undertaking in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.
Zoe Beloff has an MFA in film production from Columbia University. She has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2003), the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts (1997), and the New York Foundation for the Arts (1997, 2001). She is a professor in the Department of Media Studies at Queens College. 

Lecture in English by Pamela Cooper-White (Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis)

Response: Jeanne Wolff Bernstein (Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität) and Herman Westerink (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Friday, 17 January 2013, 7 p.m.
Sigmund Freud Museum / Lounge
Berggasse 19, 1090 Wien

Admission free, please register: veranstaltung@freud-museum.at

Sabina Spielrein has mostly been known, if at all, as the patient with whom Carl Jung became romantically involved, and who then turned to Freud for advice. While the boundary violation alarmed Freud and became the catalyst for his technical papers on transference, Spielrein's own intellectual contributions have seldom been acknowledged. It is as if this early trauma in the history of psychoanalysis and analytic psychology created a dissociative erasure of Spielrein's story and her work. This lecture will offer a look into Spielrein's own work as an analyst and theorist with particular emphasis on the paper she read for admission to Freud's Vienna Circle around the time of the "great divorce" between Jung and Freud. The goal of this evening will be to demonstrate how Spielrein's little known ideas--including an early version of Freud's death instinct--give evidence for Spielrein's rightful place as a pioneer of psychoanalysis.

Pamela Cooper-White is the Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis in Fall-Winter 2013-14, researching the treatment of religion in Freud's early Vienna circle, and teaching a seminar on Freud and Religion at the University of Vienna. She serves as the Ben G. and Nancye Clapp Gautier Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling and Co-Director of the Atlanta Theological Association's Th.D program in Pastoral Counseling at Columbia Theological Seminary near Atlanta, GA She holds Ph.D.s from Harvard University and the Institute for Clinical Social Work, Chicago. Her publications include Braided Selves: Collected Essays on Multiplicity, God, and Persons (2011), Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy and Theology in Relational Perspective (2007), and The Cry of Tamar: Violence against Women and the Church's Response (1995; 2nd ed. 2012).

Herman Westerink is scholar in the field of the psychology of religion, specialized in Freudian psychoanalysis. Currently he is Senior Lecturer at the Titus Brandsma Institute and at the Department of Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen (NL). He is member of the International Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy and of the ISPP Freud Research Group (and member of the Sigmund Freud Museum’s Scientific Advisory Board). He has published a number of monographs and articles, most recently The Heart of Man’s Destiny: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Early Reformation Thought (London 2012), A Dark Trace. Sigmund Freud on the Sense of Guilt (Leuven 2009) and Controversy and Challenge. The Reception of Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis in German and Dutch-speaking Theology and Religious Studies (Vienna/Berlin 2009).

 Jeanne Wolff Bernstein is the past president, and supervising and personal analyst at PINC (Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California). She is on the faculty at PINC and at the Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Vienna, Paris and NYU Post-Doctoral Program für Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She was the 2008 Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Museum and member of the Sigmund Freud Museum’s Scientific Advisory Board. Her most recent publications include “Beyond the Bedrock” in Good Enough Endings, edited by Jill Salberg, Routledge Press (2010), and “The space of transition between Winnicott and Lacan” in Between Winicott and Lacan, edited by Lewis Kirschner, Routledge Press (2011).

INTERIORS – ART-SPACE, LIVING-SPACE, WORK-SPACE

Symposium in co-operation with Vienna Art Week, 21 and 22 November, 2013

Sigmund Freud Museum and Dorotheum

CONCEPT: August Sarnitz, Academy of fine Arts, Vienna and Inge Scholz-Strasser, Sigmund Freud Foundation, Vienna

21 November 2013 Symposium at Sigmund Freud Museum

22 November 2013 Keynote Speech at Dorotheum

Speakers: Beatriz Colomina, Cornelia Klinger, Spyros Papapetros, August Sarnitz, Jeanne Wolff Bernstein

The two-day symposium on the topic INTERIORS – LIVING-SPACE, ART-SPACE, WORK-SPACE will take place in cooperation with the Vienna Art Week on 21 and 22 November. It is organised within the context of the photo exhibition "Lucian Freud: In Private.”, on show at the Sigmund Freud Museum.

Spatial concepts of interiors from the 19 th and 20 th century shall be lectured and discussed from the perspectives of cultural, psychoanalytic, and architectural theories. The medical practice of Sigmund Freud and Lucian Freud's studio can exemplarily be understood as work / treatment and production/ consultation spaces, which in their specificity represent the development of interiors to an intimate space and thereby “extended interior”, where the nature of the intellectual and artistic production facility resides. Radical space concepts, such as the residence in Vienna’s 3rd district which Ludwig Wittgenstein built for his sister Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, will be used as a counterpoint to stretch an architectural theoretical bow over Vienna of the first half of the 20 th century.

The designs of the architect Frederick Kiesler, who emigrated to the U.S. in the twenties of the 20th Century, indicate as spatial concepts these reflections, thus forming a relationship with the theories of Sigmund Freud in the dimension of the unconscious and space.

Symposium: Thursday, 21 November 2013, 5 p.m. – 8.15 p.m.
Sigmund Freud Museum, Berggasse 19, 1090 Vienna

4 p.m.                          Guided Tour: Lucian Freud: In Private.

5 p.m. Opening:           Daniela Finzi, Sigmund Freud Foundation, Vienna
August Sarnitz, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

Moderator: Inge Scholz-Strasser, Sigmund Freud Foundation, Vienna

5:10 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.   Die Genauigkeit der Seele – die Verarbeitung von Raum und Zeit im Werk von Sigmund und Lucian Freud
Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Psychoanalyst, Vienna

5:45 p.m. – 6:20 p.m.   Drop Form: Freud, Dora, and the Dream Interior
Spyros Papapetros, Princeton University, USA

discussion and afterwards break

6:45 p.m. – 7:20 p.m.   Das Interieur als Entfaltungsraum der modernen Subjektivität
Cornelia Klinger, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna

7:20 p.m. – 7:55 p.m.   "anpassen - aber nicht angepasst" - zur architektonischen Einkleidung von Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein
August Sarnitz, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

discussion

Keynote Speech: Friday, 22 November 2013, 8 p.m.
Dorotheum, Dorotheergasse 17, 1010 Vienna

Opening and Moderator: August Sarnitz, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

Beatriz Colomina, Princeton University, USA
Endless Kiesler: Architecture as Psychoanalysis

Concept:          August Sarnitz, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

                        Inge Scholz-Strasser, Sigmund Freud Foundation, Vienna

 Admission to both events is free, please register: veranstaltung@freud-museum.at

www.freud-museum.at

Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung

Berggasse 19

1090 Wien

An event of the Sigmund Freud Foundation and Vienna Art Week 2014

Lecture by Robert Kramer (in english)

Moderator: Robert Deam Tobin (Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis 2013)

Sigmund Freud Museum
Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 7:00 p.m.

Free admission, please register: veranstaltung@freud-museum.at

In Freud’s Oedipal narrative, powerful women are absent. Silhouetted against the awesome father, the mothers of Little Hans, Dora, the Rat Man and the Wolf Man are passive and disembodied. Colorless, they show no signs of desire. They command no authority. For Freud, mothers and women are impotent to effect their desires, sexual or otherwise. Even more significantly, mothers and women are never willing agents in any of Freud’s writings. They have no capacity for self-leadership. “What does a woman want?”, Freud asked.  The sexuality of women is “a dark continent”, he complained. In 1924, Otto Rank, one of Freud´s closest colleagues, published The Trauma of Birth, overturning Freud´s Oedipal narrative and introducing the “powerful mother” into psychoanalytic discourse. This talk, based on newly published letters between Freud and Rank, tells the story of how the gigantic conflict between these two men played out.

Robert Kramer, PhD, is a visiting professor of leadership at Corvinus University in Budapest. He teaches the intellectual history of psychoanalysis, leadership and action learning in the PhD program at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. He is editor of The Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures of Otto Rank (Princeton University Press, 1996) and co-editor, with E. James Lieberman, of The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). He is author of many articles on leadership development and action learning, and consults on these topics to men and women in organizations around the world, including the European Commission, the US Government, NGOs and multinational corporations.

Robert Deam Tobin holds the Henry J. Leir Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures at Clark University, in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he teaches courses on sexuality, human rights and literature. He is the author of Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe (2000) and Doctor’s Orders: Goethe and Enlightenment Thought (2001), as well as the co-editor of A Song for Europe: Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest (2007). In celebration of the centennial of Freud’s 1909 lectures at Clark University he edited a special issue of Psychoanalysis and History called “Global Freud,” which came out in 2011. In the summer semester of 2013, he is the Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Museum and the University of Vienna, where he is beginning a new project on sexuality and human rights and teaching a proseminar called “Freud, Sexologie und Menschenrechte.”

Vienna, October 22 – 23, 2012, with Panels in English and French

A conference by Vienna Art Week, Sigmund Freud Foundation and Institut français de Vienne in cooperation with Groupe de Recherches Pandora and CRPMS

Programme

Thursday, 22 November, 7 p.m.
Sigmund Freud Museum, Berggasse 19, 1090 Wien

Key lecture by Itzhak Goldberg (Université de Saint Etienne) in English:

The Vision Of The Body From The 20th To The 21st Century: From Pieces To Grafts

Abstract+Bio (German/French)

Introduction by Inge Scholz-Strasser (Sigmund Freud Foundation)

Chair: Simone Korff-Sausse (Université Paris-Diderot) and Silke Schauder (Université d’Amiens)

Friday, 23 November, 5 p.m.
Vienna Art Week, Dorotheum, Dorotheergasse 17, 1010 Wien

Panel in English “Body and Art – The Image of Hysteria in the 21st Century”

Chair: Hans-Otto Thomashoff (President Section Art and Psychiatry WPA)

• Jeanne Wolff Bernstein (Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität): “Inscriptions into the Body: The Tattoo and its many Languages”
• Silke Schauder (Université d’Amiens): “Hysterically Yours – Michael Jackson: The Other Side of his Work”
• Simone Korff-Sausse (Université Paris-Diderot): “Hysteria Revisited by Louise Bourgeois: The Arch of Hysteria”
• Ekaterina Sukhanova (City University of New York): “Russia and its Discontents: Personality
• Klaus Spiess (Meduni Wien): “Molecular made Body Images: BioArt and Queer Immunology”

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7:30 p.m., Institut français de Vienne, Währingerstraße 30, 1090 Wien

Panel in French “La fabrique de l'image: corps en scène. Réflexions à partir du cinéma d'Almodovar et notamment La Piel que habito“

 Chair: Jeanne Wolff Bernstein (Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität)

• Anne Brun (Université de Lyon II)
• Vincent Estellon (Paris-Descartes)
• Céline Masson (Université Paris-Diderot)

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About the Conference

This conference is a partnership of scholars from multiple disciplines, different professional organizations and several continents.  Our underlying common theme is the exploration of the complex social, cultural, and aesthetic interconnections between body image and identity.

 We will reexamine the notion of hysteria in its contemporary context, particularly as it informs the social discourse on mental illness.

 Hysteria is a physical representation of a psychological condition and thus visualizes it. Creating art through the body therefore implies a hysterical dynamic. How do psychoanalytic concepts of hysteria fit into an interpretative discourse about art? Do symptoms turn into art and thus vanish? Does the 21st century allow to abolish the concept of mental illness and is art the pathway to do so? Does art offer direct insight into the dynamics of the individual as well as of society? Does art allow us to peak into the future of societies or is it in danger of getting stuck in a dead end, turning into a symptom rather than promoting progress? These deliberately provocative points should give start to a vigorous and enriching scholarly discussion.

• Presentations will focus on some of the following overarching themes:
• Role of body image in the construction of contemporary identity
• Relationship between body image disorders and disorders of the self
• Creative process and identity formation
• Role of the social constructs of the norm and pathology  in the understanding of identity in modern society?
• The correlation of the ?imaginary? metaphorical body as the subject of art  with the actual physical body as the subject of medicine and science

Our location in Vienna, the birthplace of psychoanalysis and one of the cultural capitals of the world, adds a fascinating setting for the proposed scientific and social program.

Concept: Hans-Otto Thomashoff, Céline Masson

Supported by: World Psychiatric Association Section on Art and Psychiatry