Events

Success Money and Soul

Panel Discussion

Success Money and Soul. Panel Discussion in German with Gabriele Fischer, Regina Jankowitsch, Ulla Konrad, and Josef Mantl. Moderator: Claus Reitan
October 7, 2010, 7 p.m.
Sigmund Freud Museum

Philosophy and the Clinic of the Death Drive

Lecture in English

Philosophy and the Clinic of the Death Drive. Lecture in English by Steven Miller
May 27, 7 p.m.
Sigmund Freud Museum
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INTIMACY PROHIBITION ORDER

Intenational Conference

INTIMACY PROHIBITION ORDER
International Conference -in German
Opening lecture by John Borneman
March 25-27, 2010
Sigmund Freud Museum
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Interpretation of Dreams

Book Presentation Jean-Pierre Lefebvre:
new french translation of Sigmund Freud's Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams)
February 5, 2010, 7 p.m., Institut Francais de Vienne

Wie weitermachen mit Sigmund Freud?

Anmerkungen eines Nicht-Psychoanalytikers

Wie weitermachen mit Sigmund Freud? Anmerkungen eines Nicht-Psychoanalytikers
lecture in German with Jan Philipp Reemtsma

December 10, 2009, 7.30 p.m.
Sigmund Freud Museum

Freud's Mexican Antiquities

Psychoanalysis and Human Sacrifice

Freud's Mexican Antiquities - Psychoanalysis and Human Sacrifice

Lecture in english language by Rubén Gallo
(Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer)
December 2, 2009
, 7 p.m.
Sigmund Freud Museum

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The Force of Monotheism

Psychoanalysis and Religions

Psychoanalysis and Religions

International Conference
October 29 -31, 2009
Österreichische Beamtenversicherung, Grillparzerstraße 14, 1010 Vienna
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Exhibitions

Remains of Memory, Disturbances in Reading

Remains of Memory, Disturbances in Reading

Presentation of rare archive material with original typescripts, photographies, and letters
July 17, 2010 to 2011
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The Sigmund Freud Museum Contemporary Art Collection

The Sigmund Freud Museum Contemporary Art Collection

Collection of Conceptual Art by artists like Joseph Kosuth, Ilya Kabakov, John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer et al.
from October 20, 2009

Eros & Thanatos – from the Graphic Collection (working title)

Eros & Thanatos: Drives, Images, Interpretations

An exhibition of the Sigmund Freud Museum in cooperation with the Graphic Collection Department of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Sigmund Freud Museum
June 11, 2009 – October 13, 2009

Philosophy and the Clinic of the Death Drive

Lecture in English

Lecture by Steven Miller in English

Sigmund Freud Museum, May 27,  7 p.m. 

Registration: office@freud-museum.at, 01-319 15 96-11

Philosophy and the Clinic of the Death Drive

Because of its speculative method, Beyond the Pleasure Principle is known as Freud’s most overtly philosophical work. The psychoanalyst’s reflections on life and death situate his work within the tradition of Empedocles, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. However, an attentive reading of the text shows that Freud’s intention was not philosophical at all. The goal of his wandering meditations was not to establish a method to judge the legitimacy of human knowledge, but rather to assert that psychoanalysis can and must begin in the clinic. The death drive—which, for Freud, is exemplary of the drive in general—names the point where both analysand and analyst encounter something that remains radically unrepresentable; something that the analysand is incapable of articulating either to him- or herself or to others. And it is precisely at such a point that psychoanalysis discovers its object and most far-reaching vocation. In this sense, psychoanalysis is inherently anti-philosophical. Nonetheless, many philosophers have taken an interest in Freud’s theory precisely because of its rejection of the philosophical standpoint. Most of them simply reclaim Freud for philosophy by upholding his rejection of philosophy as the consummate philosophical act. In this respect, the work of Jacques Derrida is an exception. Rather than merely appropriating psychoanalytic concepts for philosophy, he considers that psychoanalysis is unintelligible—if not historically meaningless—if it is extracted from the limits that it sets upon itself. This lecture presents the way in which Derrida’s reading of Beyond the Pleasure Principle seeks to respect these limits to examine the consequences of this respect within Derrida’s approach to the politics of destruction.

 

Steven Miller is the 2010 Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis and teaches at the University of Vienna. He is Assistant Professor at the Department of English at State University of New York, Buffalo.

 

INTIMACY PROHIBITION ORDER

International Conference

From 25 to 27 March 2010 the Sigmund Freud Museum is hosting an interdisciplinary conference bringing together psychoanalysis and cultural studies in focusing on the transformation of contemporary family constellations.

The opening lecture will be held by the anthropologist John Borneman of Princeton University.

At the center of the three-day conference are the upheavals occurring in systems of familial relationship at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The transformation of the genealogical order and its psychical bonding force, which was a key stabilizing factor in modern social organization, can be seen in the growing equality of the sexes, the separation of sexuality and reproduction, the recognition of non-reproductive sexual orientations, the implementation of post-sexual reproductive technologies, and in the diversity of new ways of life. According to Freud, that order’s foundation was the incest taboo as the law of the father, whose internalization was central to heterosexual identity and to the patrilineal succession of generations. The disintegration of prohibiting authorities and the changing psychodynamics of the relationship between parents and offspring, adults and children, has led to a new definition of the difference between the generations, whereby roles, identifications and the borders of intimacy have been subjected to new evaluations.

The conference will illuminate this transformation from anthropological, ethnological, medical, sociological, psychoanalytic, religious and cultural perspectives, tracing theoretical displacements that have as yet received little attention and discussing its emancipatory side. Familial and social upheavals are also the theme of a film screening and reading that will end the conference.

Conception: Irene Berkel, scholar of religious and cultural studies, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna 

The keynote lecture on 25 March will be held by John Borneman, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University.

 

Participants

John W. Borneman, Princeton University

Karola Brede, Goethe-University Frankfurt

Wilhelm Brüggen, Berlin Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Johannes Huber, University of Vienna

Michi Knecht, Humboldt-University Berlin

Martin Treml, Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin

Conference Locations

Keynote Lecture on 25 March: Atrium of the Österreichische Beamtenversicherung ÖBV, Grillparzerstrasse 14, 1010 Vienna

Conference sessions on 26 and 27 March: Sigmund Freud Museum, Berggasse 19, 1090 Vienna

 

 

 

Freud's Mexican Antiquities - Psychoanalysis and Human Sacrifice

Rube Gallo w Antiquities

Vortrag von Rubén Gallo (Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis)

in englischer Sprache

2.12.2009, 19 Uhr, Sigmund Freud Museum

Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis Rubén Gallo beschäftigt sich in seinem englischsprachigen Vortrag mit Freuds mexikanischen Antiken, eine davon ist im Sigmund Freud Museum zu sehen. Er beleuchtet dabei Freuds Verhältnis zu Süd- und Mittelamerikanischen Kulturen und stellt Fragen zum Aufbau von Sammlungen und dem Einfluss präkolumbianischer Kulturen aus Lateinamerika auf Freud und zeitgenössische Denker wie Walter Benjamin oder Georges Bataille.

Freud was an avid collector and over his life he acquired over 2,000 antiquities from around the world. In recent years the Greek, Roman, and Egyptian pieces in the collection have received much scholarly attention and have led to exhibitions and publications. But the collection also includes a handful of pieces from Latin America: a Peruvian Moche figure and two objects from pre-Columbian Mexico – one of which forms part of the permanent collection at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. What do these objects tell us about Freud as collector of world cultures? How do they relate to the psychoanalytic theory of the development of civilization? What is their relation to the Mediterranean objects that make up the bulk of the collection? What do they tell us about the politics of collecting? Before his death in 2003, Edward Said published a little book, Freud and the non-European, on the question of how the Freudian worldview could account for non-European cultures. Following this line of thought, Rubén Gallo will use Freud’s Mexican antiquities as a point of departure to explore the psychoanalytic view of pre-Columbian Mexico – a culture that fascinated scholars of Freud’s generation, from Walter Benjamin to Georges Bataille.  


Rubén Gallo
ist Direktor des Studienprogramms für lateinamerikanische Studien an der Princeton University und Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis im Wintersemester 2009/2010.  Sein in Kürze erscheinendes Buch Freud’s Mexico: into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis (MIT Press) ist eine Studie über Freuds Verbindungen zu Mexiko. Zu seinen weiteren englischsprachigen Publikationen zählen Mexican Modernity: the Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution (MIT, ausgezeichnet mit dem Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, 2005), New Tendencies in Mexican Art (Palgrave, 2004) und The Mexico City Reader (2004), das in Französisch und Spanisch übersetzt wurde.

Über Freud’s Mexico:
…a very different picture of Freud emerges from this book: a Freud who spoke Spanish, collected Mexican antiquities and Mexican books, had Mexican dreams, and corresponded with his Mexican disciples. Freud’s Mexico will lead readers into the wilds of psychoanalysis.

In Zusammenarbeit mit der Fulbright Commission und dem Insrituto Cervantes Viena