15 Years of IPU


Throughout 2024, the IPU will celebrate its 15th anniversary with academic and social events. Stay tuned!

Salon15 - Gast & Guests

IPU senior professor and member of the IPU since its founding Prof. Lilli Gast will speak with IPU scholars on themes from the beginning years of psychoanalysis. They will explore which cultural and historical impulses brough about the selected texts in the year 1915 and will look at how they are still current and relevant in today's world.

In 1915, Sigmund Freud described instinct as a fundamental term that psychoanalysis cannot do without. Now, around one hundred years later, the term only plays a minor-to-disappearing role in current psychoanalytic theorizing. Why is this so, and what do we lose because of it? And what does this mean with regard to current conceptualizations of sexuality and gender? 

Gast and Guests will take on Sigmund Freud's work "Instincts and their Vicissitudes".

Guests:
Aaron Lahl, M.A.-Psych., Instructor at the IPU
Niclas O'Donnokoé, M.A.-Psych., research associate at the IPU
Tove Gersitz, student at the IPU

The event will take place at the IPU Berlin, Stromstraße 3b, Lecture Hall 3.
It starts at 19:00.
Please be aware, this event will take place in German.

You can find more information and register here

Gast and Guests will take on Sigmund Freud's work "The Unconscious".

Guests:
Prof. Dr. Christa Rohde-Dachser, co-founder of the IPU
Jonas Rudolph, M.A.-Psych., reserach associat at the IPU
Anna Schmidtke, M.A.-Psych., research associate at the IPU
 

Gast and Guests will take on Sigmund Freud's work "Repression".

Guests:
Prof. Dr. Christine Kirchhoff, professor for psychoanalysis, subject and cultural theory at the IPU
Anna Rosa Ostern, M.A.-Psych, former research associate at the IPU 
Philip Jammermann, student at the IPU

Week of Celebration

In the week from 21-25 October 2024, the IPU Berlin will be celebrating its 15th anniversary. Over the past few months, events have already taken place at our university, and we will be celebrating the highlight of our anniversary with a week of academic and social events just in time for the start of the winter semester.

You can find information on all events here. Specific information on registration is included under each event.

Happy Birthday Wishes from the Psychoanalytic Community

Photo Exhibit from the Early Years

In combination with our move into Alt-Moabit 91a and therefore taking a step in our future, the IPU will also take a look back into the past. Photos of events, memories, and moments that show the IPU community will be dug up from the archive in order to decorate the IPU hallways. 

Are you interested in sharing your photos of IPU's early years? Write to us!

Long Night of the Sciences

As part of the Long Night of Sciences 2024, we will investigate the changeable relationship between psychoanalysis and university culture, also with regard to the founding of the IPU. The current senators in the IPU student government will discuss with Prof. Dr. Christa Rohde-Dachser (sociologist, psychoanalyst, and IPU founder), Prof. Dr. Lilli Gast (psychoanalytic cultural theorist), Prof. Dr. Dr. Dorothea Huber (doctor trained in cognitive behavioral therapy and psychoanalysis), and Arkadi Blatow (student during the IPU's inaugural semester and current research associate at the IPU). 

Afterwards, we will toast to the IPU's 15th anniversary with a glass of sparkling wine. 

Date: 22 June 2024, 21:00 - 22:00
Location: Stromstr. 2-05b

 


The IPU15 project is also made possible by the financial support of the Association of Friends and Sponsors.