Sigmund Freud Lectures
See a selection of video recordings of the Sigmund Freud Lectures from the last years. More on our YouTube Channel
LII - J.M. Coetzee: Freud and Marriage
J.M. Coetzee was born in South Africa in 1940 and educated in South Africa and the United States. Among his academic appointments have been professorships at the University of Cape Town and the University of Chicago. He is the author of twenty works of fiction, as well as of criticism and translations. Among awards he has won are the Booker Prize (twice) and, in 2003, the Nobel Prize for Literature. Since 2002 he has lived in Australia, where he is Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide. Introduction and moderation by Rubén Gallo, welcome words by Monika Pessler.
LI - Homi K. Bhabha: On the Excessive Power of “Affective Coloring”
Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous works exploring postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, cultural change and power, contemporary art, and cosmopolitanism. He holds honorary degrees from Université Paris 8, University College London, Freie Universität Berlin, and Stellenbosch University. Introduction and moderation by Herman Westerink, welcome words by Monika Pessler.
L - Adam Phillips: On Not Believing In Anything: Or, Why Freud?
Adam Phillips was formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, and is now a psychoanalyst in private practice in London and a writer. He is the author of over twenty books on psychoanalysis and literature, most recently On Getting Better and The Cure for Psychoanalysis. He is a Visiting Professor in the English Department at the University of York, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Introduction and moderation by Gohar Homayounpour, welcome words by Monika Pessler.
XLIX - Lisa Appignanesi: Dreaming with Freud, Writing with Freud
Lisa Appignanesi OBE is an award-winning writer, novelist, cultural commentator, and until 2021 Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She was Chair of the Freud Museum London from 2007-2013 and President of English Pen. Amongst her books is the classic Freud’s Women (with John Forrester). Introduction and moderation by Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, welcome words by Monika Pessler.
XLVIII - Colette Soler: La Psychanalyse et le Politique
Colette Soler was trained by Jacques Lacan and was a member of the École freudienne de Paris and later a founding member of the Champ lacanien and its École Internationale de Psychanalyse after the secession from the Association mondiale de psychanalyse (AMP) in 1998. She gave the Sigmund Freud Lecture 2021 from Paris, with an introduction by Viktor Mazin and welcome words by Monika Pessler. Daniela Finzi moderated the discussion.
XLVII -Jacqueline Rose: To Die One’s Own Death – Thinking with Sigmund Freud in a Time of Pandemic
Jacqueline Rose is Professor of Humanities and Co-Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. She gave the Sigmund Freud Lecture at the Freud Museum London. Moderated by Monika Pessler.
XLVI - Jan Assmann: Moses tragicus. Freud, Schönberg und der scheiternde Moses
In 2019, Jan Assmann, Egyptologist and Scientist for Studies of Culture and Religion gave the lecture in German.
XLV - Philipp Blom: Let Me Tell You a Story. Narrative Identitäten in Zeiten des Aufruhrs
Author and Historian Philipp Blom gave the 2018 Sigmund Freud Lecture in German.
XLIV - William Kentridge: A Defence of the Less Good Idea
Artist William Kentridge delivered the Sigmund Freud Lecture 2017 in English at Vienna's Burgtheater, moderated by Erik Porath.
XLIII - Stefano Bolognini: The Humanizing Function of Contemporary Pschoanalytic Empathy
Stefano Bolognini, President of the International Psychoanalytic Assosiation, gave the 2016 lecture in English.
XLII - Slavoj Žižek: Theology, Negativity, and the Death-Drive
Slavoj Žižek delivered the Sigmund Freud Lecture of 2015 at Vienna's Burgtheater, moderated by Victor Mazin.
XLI - Judith Butler: Politik des Todestriebes. Der Fall der Todesstrafe
Judith Butler delivered the Sigmund Freud Lecture of 2014 in German at the University of Vienna, moderated by Jeanne Wolff Bernstein.
XL - Joseph Kosuth: Freud, Beckett and the Uncanny: Some Thoughts on Art as Installation
Artist Joseph Kosuth gave the 2013 lecture in German at the Sigmund Freud Museum, moderated by Peter Pakesch.
XXXVIII - Siri Hustvedt: "Freud's Playground: Some Reflections on the Art and Science of Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity
Author Siri Hustvedt gave the lecture 2011 in English at the Austrian National Bank, moderated by Andrea Bronner.
