Part I: Transience, Transference, and the Dispossessed

Panel Discussion (4pm, in English)
On site & online

Renowned experts in psychoanalysis, cultural studies, literature, and history will discuss how we navigate the complex psychological terrain of cultural identity and loss. Under the title "Transience, Transference, and the Dispossessed", they will examine the contemporary significance of vanished places, lost rituals, and cultural dispossession—because "History does not repeat itself, but we can learn from it." (Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, 2017)

with
Brigid Doherty, Art Historian, Princeton University/New Jersey
Jane Tillman, Psychoanalyst, Austen Riggs Center/ Massachusetts
Daniela Finzi, Literary Scholar, Sigmund Freud Museum/Wien
Thomas A. Kohut, Historian, Williams College/Massachusetts (Moderation)

The panel discussion is also part of "Rooted & Displaced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Meaning of Place. An International Roundtable Series", a collaboration between the Sigmund Freud Museum, the Freud Foundation US and the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center.

Part II: We Lived... In the Ninth District

Testimonies from Vienna (6pm, in English)
Opening Showroom Berggasse 19 & Film Premiere "We Lived... In the Ninth District"
On site only

"We Lived... In the Ninth District" – a video installation at the Showroom Berggasse 19 offers unique insights into our collective memory: selected testimonies from Viennese Holocaust survivors demonstrate the impact of history on the present and the future. The memories are often linked to places and objects – marked by painful experiences, they also carry longings and hopes. The premiere of this moving contemporary testimony is accompanied by a conversation between historian Thomas Kohut and Monika Pessler (director of the Sigmund Freud Museum) about the connection between knowledge, historical awareness, and repression. More on the installation

Talk (in English) with
Thomas Kohut, Historian, Williams College/Massachusetts
Monika Pessler, Director Sigmund Freud Museum/Wien

The film premiere and accompanying talk will take place at the library.
The film installation at Showroom Berggasse 19 will be officially opened afterwards.

A cooperation with Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies of Yale University on the occasion of the special exhibition „Documents of Injustice. The Case Freud" at the Sigmund Freud Museum.

An event as part of VIENNA ART WEEK

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Watch a selection of our event videos on our YouTube channel.