Judisk Kultur

Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis and Judaism
an international symposium
Söndag 6 april kl 11.00–16.30 (inkl. lunchpaus)
Konstakademien, Fredsgatan 12, hiss från Jakobsgatan 27c

Biljetter

Sigmund Freud – Psychoanalysis and Judaism will explore Sigmund Freud through the lens of Judaism, humanism, sexuality, art, literature and absence.

Speakers: George Makari, New York; Monika Pessler, Elisabeth Brainin, Samy Teicher, Vienna; David Titelman, Stockholm; Per Magnus Johansson, Göteborg, Yair Qedar, Tel Aviv.

Chairs: Lars Dencik and Hans Ruin

Topics:

George Makari
What’s Sex Got to Do With It?: Freud, the Freudians and the Binding Power of Eros

Elisabeth Brainin & Samy Teicher
Freud, Judaism, Antisemitism and Psychoanalysis

David Titelman
Freud's father religion: Rediscovering Moses and Monotheism

Monika Pessler
Absence or All That Remains

Per Magnus Johansson
Freud: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow?

About the speakers:

George Makari is a psychiatrist and historian. He is the author of Revolution in Mind, The Creation of Psychoanalysis and Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind. His recent work, Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia won the 87th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in the nonfiction category.

Elisabeth Brainin is specialist in psychiatry and neurology, psychoanalyst, child and adolescent analyst. She is member of the International Psychoanalytic Study Group on Antisemitism.

Samy Teicher is a psychoanalyst, child and youth analyst, group analyst and teaching analyst. He is Member of the International Psychoanalytic Study Group on Antisemitism.

David Titelman, PhD, psychoanalyst is Associate Professor, National Center for Suicide Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

Monika Pessler is art historian and curator, was director of the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation from 2003 to 2013 and has been director of the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna since 2014.

Per Magnus Johansson is a psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist and historian of ideas.

Yair Qedar is an award-winning documentarist, producer of the celebrated series The Hebrews.

Lars Dencik is Professor of Social Psychology.

Hans Ruin is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn university.

Thank you for your support: Swedish Arts Council, The City of Stockholm & Stockholm Region.