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21 October, 8 p.m. – Keynote Lecture by Paolo Fabbri

22 October, 9.30 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Panel Talks

The Dislocated Subject

The Sigmund Freud Museum’s 2016 autumn conference is devoted to the theme of “new subjectivity”. In a world which is dominated by new ways of communication, by technology that subverts the perception of the body, by the new organisations of the family and groups and by global violence, we are witnessing an overflowing of the subject. The cult of the body and of youth, the desire to procreate also without the shared will of the couple, the lack of a collective conscience, etc. tell us about a “dislocated” subject’.

The conference which opens with the keynote lecture „Yes, we zombies can“ by the Italian semiologist Paolo Fabbri, discusses two aspects of this dislocation of the subject: 1) an “embodied dislocation”, in which the subject, identified with the physical body, reacts by altering this location and technically modifying its appearance or functions, and 2) “disembodied dislocation”, where the subject relocates to a non-physical world of chatrooms, avatars and self-representations within a virtual, globalised reality.

‘Geographies of Psychoanalysis’

Psychoanalysis has been expanding in countries very distant from the historical psychoanalytical culture. The answers to our new realities created by globalization, technological progess and new forms of communication are different from country to country, thus, psychoanalysis has to provide different answers. It is no longer only a question of dialogue with other disciplines, but one of establishing a comparison between different anthropological positions. We have to understand whether psychoanalytical concepts are universal and if its therapeutical methodology is effective in different countries worldwide.

The work of the International Research Group ‘Geographies of Psychoanalysis’, which started a few years ago by a number of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society journal‘Psiche’ (n.1/2008) under the direction of Lorena Preta, brings together the different experiences of psychoanalysts living and working in a variety of realities and cultures.

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Picture: William Kentrigde, North Pole Map. Courtesy Fondazione MAXXI, Photo credit Roberto Galasso

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Setting Memory - Bettina von Zwehl & Paul Coldwell: Special exhibition at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna

Special exhibition at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna

7 October 2016 – 21 January 2017

Opening: 6 October, 7 p.m.

Works by London-based artists Bettina von Zwehl and Paul Coldwell kick off the discourse about “loss, memory and reorientation” at the Sigmund Freud Museum on 7 October, 2016 – notions that today define the atmosphere of the former living and working rooms of Sigmund and Anna Freud. The exhibition SETTING MEMORY at Vienna’s Berggasse corresponds with personal shows by the artists at the Freud Museum London and thus underlines the close relationship of these two Freud institutions.

Bettina von Zwehl uses the quality of photography as a tool of memory and instrument of research, following the main principles of psychoanalytic treatment methods: criteria such as “observation”, “transference” and the “principle of confidentiality” are subjected to artistic scrutiny in a series of portraits.

Photographs from a series documenting Anna Freud’s personal belongings in London afford insights into past life-worlds – visual reminiscences returned to their place of origin that depict the setting of the early history of pedagogy and child analysis in “Red Vienna” of the 1920s. The multi-part installation Sospiri (Sighs) stages experiences of loss and mourning: inspired by Gerhard Richter’s work, the artist combines personal traces of life and memory in an unembellished photographic memory record.

Paul Coldwell picks up from those historical events that left the house at Berggasse 19 a “vestigial memory space”. By reconstructing antiques that once populated Freud’s desk, Coldwell revives the memory of the ambience of Sigmund Freud’s workplace. Exhibits rendered in white and reduced in size provide a visual counterpart to the grand narrative of loss and absence. Like the suitcase used by the Freuds while fleeing into exile in London in 1938, the containers in which the reproductions were shipped to Vienna also testify to a sense of departure and new beginnings.

As Sigmund Freud linked the methods of psychoanalysis to those employed by archaeologists, who today often make use of X-rays, the artist uses this method to scan a Freud fetish (Freud’s coat) and uncover the underlying content of meaning.

Part of the exhibition SETTING MEMORYis the artistic documentation of Paul Coldwell’s Balloon Releases action that took place in cooperation with students from the “Business Academy Donaustadt” in Vienna in June this year and that was devoted to visualising loss of home and migration.

Newly released artist books by Bettina von Zwehl and Paul Coldwell afford specific insights into the latest series of both artists.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue.

Setting Memory - Bettina von Zwehl & Paul Coldwell

Special exhibition, starting October 7, 2016

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What Does the Princess Want? Marie Bonaparte between Biology and Psychoanalysis

25. February 2016, 20:00 - 22:00

Sigmund Freud Museum, Berggasse 19, 1090 Wien

Lecture by Rémy Amouroux. Part of the programme accompanying the exhibition "So this is the strong sex." Women in Psychoanalysis please register: veranstaltung@freud-museum.at

"Today, biographical anecdotes concerning Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962) are more famous than her scientific work. It is well known that she was a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte and a royal princess by marriage. She was also a student and friend of Sigmund Freud, and she helped him to escape from the Nazis. For her contemporaries, she was a respected model of orthodox. However, she developed a conception – anchored in the natural sciences rather than the human sciences – that went against the ideological current of post-war French psychoanalysis. As a psychoanalyst, Marie Bonaparte was always looking for the biological origin of the psychological process. Perhaps this is the reason why some of her ideas are strange from a twenty-first century point of view?

Aside from giving a biographical account, I will describe her role in the psychoanalytic movement, but also her connection with the scientific and literary circles. Moreover, I will explore the cultural climate in which Marie Bonaparte has evolved. This contextualization will allow me to focus on her psychoanalytic work about female sexuality and illustrate how and why is it connected with biological issues." Rémy Amouroux

„So this is the strong Sex.“ Women in Psychoanalysis: Special exhibition at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna

http://www.freud-museum.at/en/event/opening_women.html

Dora – Hysteria – Gender: A Conference (Sigmund Freud Museum, Wien)

Friday, 12 February 2016, 2:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Sigmund Freud Museum, Berggasse 19, 1090 Wien

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

Dora – Hysteria – Gender

Freud’s 1905 Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria is not only the first of the five major case studies he wrote, the so-called Dora case is also the only major case study dealing with a female patient. This first major case study is one of the most commented of Freud’s texts – a study that not only met clinical interest. For, in the 1970 and 1980s we can witness the start of a “Dora renaissance” that produced many new readings of the text from literary, philosophical and especially also feminist perspective. In these readings often special attention was paid to ideological aspects of the case study in particular and psychoanalysis in general, notably also regarding the power relations operating in language and sexuality. Indeed, we find such relations inherent to the field of psychoanalysis, sexuality, pathology and feminism in a condensed way in the Dora text. A thorough analysis of the text thus requires an interdisciplinary approach.

Such approach is central in the symposium “Dora – Hysteria – Gender”. The aim of the symposium is not only to situate the text originally named “Dream in Hysteria” in relation to The Interpretation of Dreams and the Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality while focusing on Freud’s understanding of sexuality, bisexuality, hysteria, perversion and transference from a historical and systematic perspective. The aim is also to elaborate the text’s potential and to develop new readings in view of the contemporary scientific fields of gender and queer studies. Part of this undertaking is the critical analysis of Freud’s theory of femininity.

With: Rachel Blass, Jens De Vleminck, Daniela Finzi, Esther Hutfless, Ilka Quindeau, Beatriz Santos, Philippe van Haute, Herman Westerink und Jeanne Wolff-Bernstein.

A Conference by the Sigmund Freud Museum in cooperation with the Freud Research Group

Lectures (Language as indicated)

2:00: Daniela Finzi (DE): Konstruktionen einer Fallgeschichte. Von „Traum und Hysterie“ zu In Doras Case

3:00: Rachel Blass (EN)

4:00: Beatriz Santos (EN): Is Dora a woman? Thinking identity and identifications through the feminist critique of a case of hysteria

5:00: Panel Discussion Hysteria and Perversion (EN)

Jeanne Wolff-Bernstein, Philippe van Haute und Esther Hutfless

7:00 Lecture (DE)

Ilka Quindeau: „Von Dora zu Conchita - neuere Konzepte zu Geschlecht und Sexualität in der Psychoanalyse“

„So this is the strong Sex.“ Women in Psychoanalysis: Special exhibition at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna

16 October 2015 – 12 June 2016

Special exhibition at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna

On October 15, the Sigmund Freud Museum opens its special exhibition “So this is the strong sex.” Women in Psychoanalysis, which is dedicated to women from the early history of psychoanalysis. Marie Bonaparte, Helene Deutsch, Emma Eckstein, Anna Freud, Lou Andreas-Salomé and Sabina Spielrein had a major influence on the work of Sigmund Freud and on the development of psychoanalysis.

“So this is the strong sex.” – Emma Eckstein is said to have once greeted Sigmund Freud with this ironic allusion. Succinctly, this quotation conveys the possible new interpretations of predominant gender roles. As patients, these women provided Sigmund Freud with the basis for his discovery of the unconscious; the “father of psychoanalysis” himself confirms how he developed his treatment method known as the “talking cure” together with them.

Marie Bonaparte photographed in Freud's consulting room, Vienna 1937

In addition to their practical work as analysts, these protagonists made substantial contributions to the development of psychoanalytical theory, inspiring Freud’s works or even anticipating them, as in the case of Sabina Spielrein. Their involvement in the international dissemination and global institutionalisation of psychoanalysis is equally undisputed: Sabina Spielrein in Switzerland and Russia, Lou Andreas-Salomé in Germany, Marie Bonaparte in France, Helene Deutsch in the USA, and Anna Freud in England.

Lou Andreas-Salomé

The biographies and works of these different figures, all impressive, are focused on in the exhibition along with Freud’s theoretical work from the perspective of feminism, gender and queer studies criticism.

„So this is the strong Sex.“ Women in Psychoanalysis

16 October 2015 – 12 June 2016

Special exhibition at the Sigmund Freud Museum
Opening: 15 October 2015, 19:00

Please register here.

Sabina Spielrein, Lou Andreas-Salome - The Two Russian Muses who turned Psychoanalysts’ Heads

22. October 2015, 19:00 - 21:00

Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna

Lectures in English by Adrienne Harris and Jeanne Wolff Bernstein about Lou Andreas-Salomé and Sabina Spielrein

Language is there to bewilder itself and others: The Theoretical and Clinical Contributions of Sabina Spielrein.

In this paper, I will focus on a period of Spielrein's work - in Geneva and in Moscow - in which her maturity as a clinician, theorist, and researcher is at its height. I am arguing that she makes contributions to the creation and development of child analysis and research on the unfolding of language and cognition in young children, to a perspective on sexuality with interesting engagements with Ferenczi and with modern ideas about sexuality and destruction. What is consistent in her approach to research and to clinical work is a deep abiding commitment to psychoanalytic ideas. I am arguing that in losing her work, our field loses important and productive ties between psychoanalysis, cognitive studies and child psychology.

- Adrienne Harris

Lou Andreas-Salomé

In my paper I will discuss the dual orientations and counter- movements in Lou-Andreas Salome’s psychoanalytic writings. For too long, Lou Andreas-Salome has been solely considered to be the fascinating muse for Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud and this elevated position has overshadowed the significance of her own writings. A close reading of some of her major texts will reveal her to be a serious psychoanalytic thinker who, like Sabine Spielrein, foreshadowed Freud’s eros and thanatos theory and who re-conceptualized narcissism as a necessary and creative retreat rather than as a pathological defensive formation, anticipating for instance Winnicott’s much later idea of the individual “as an isolate, permanently non-communicating, permanently unknown, in fact unfound” being. By re-considering her important texts on narcissism, anality and the erotics, I hope to re-integrate her complex theories into the canon of the major psychoanalytic authors.

- Jeanne Wolff Bernstein

More info here.