Psychoanalytische Kulturwissenschaft Lecture Series 2022-2024

The lecture series ‘Psychoanalytic and Cultural Theory’ devotes itself to the influence of psychoanalysis on cultural theories at large as well as to particularly poignant applications of psychoanalytical research to current cultural phenomena. The central psychoanalytic concepts of Freud and his successors are to be taken up in an open and non-partisan fashion and applied to the cultural, political, and economic phenomena encountered today. Whereas early psychoanalysis dealt primarily with the family as it was shaped by bourgeois Victorian society, current research increasingly focuses on extreme kinds of individualization, social uncertainties and threats, as well as on new digital and technological cultural techniques. The series would like to develop new, critical, and innovative readings of psychoanalytic theory and combine them with concepts and ideas from the humanities and from cultural critique.

Tuesday, 28 November 2023, 20:00
Ankhi Mukherjee (E)

Tuesday, 16 January 2024, 20:00
Jeanne Wolff Bernstein (E)