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Reading Group: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture in Historical Perspective 9th July 2018

Reading Group: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture in Historical Perspective

Monday 9th July, 6.30-8pm

Room G01, 43 Gordon Square

This series of reading groups looks at key texts in the history of psychoanalysis, exploring their connections to visual culture. Readings are intended for anyone interested in delving into this literature with a like minded group of non-experts from disciplines across art history, film and media studies etc.

For the second session on Monday 9th July, 6.30pm in room G01, 43 Gordon Square, we’re returning to some classics by Freud:

1) Freud & Josef Breuer, ‘On the Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena: Preliminary Communication’, in Studies on Hysteria (1893)

2) Freud, ‘A Dream is the Fulfilment of a Wish’, in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)

3) Freud, ‘Fragment of an analysis of a case: Dora’ (1905)

Note – this is a fairly long text, so you might want to just read some of the beginning and end parts of it.

4) Freud, ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ (1917)

Readings available to download via google drive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1I5SBj_5Zb_V-wEbH4dddpd00zzsK5ynT?usp=sharing

If you’re only able to read two or three of the texts, please do still come along. We’re also inviting people to bring a few images that they’re working on – to help spark our visual thinking and draw out any potential connections, applications, tangents etc.

Assuming there’s an appetite to continue the readings, we’ll pick the texts and date for the next session following on from this second one. Please bring suggestions for readings if you have them!

To RSVP and for more information contact:

Alistair Cartwright (Birkbeck, History of Art) — alistaircartwright@gmail.com

Christy Slobogin (Birkbeck, History of Art) — cslobo01@mail.bbk.ac.uk

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Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture in Historical Perspective Reading Group – 30 May 2018

Reading Group: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture in Historical Perspective

30 May, 6.30pm

Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square

This open reading group will look at key texts in the history of psychoanalysis, exploring their potential connections to visual culture.

Readings are intended for anyone who’s interested in delving into this literature with a like minded group of non-experts from disciplines across art history, visual culture, film and media studies etc.

For the first session on Wednesday 30 May, 6.30pm in the Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, we’ve picked three texts from the mid-twentieth century related to British Object Relations:

– Ronald Fairbairn, ‘The War Neuroses – their Nature and Signifcance’ (1943)

– Donald Winnicott, ‘Playing: Its Theoretical Status in the Clinical Situation’ (1968)

and… not directly associated with object relations but a key point of reference…

– Melanie Klein, ‘On the Sense of Loneliness’ (1963) 

Readings in links above, or available to download via google drive here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1I5SBj_5Zb_V-wEbH4dddpd00zzsK5ynT?usp=sharing

If you’re only able to read one or two of the texts, please do still come along. We’re also inviting people to bring 2-3 images that they’re working on – to help spark our visual thinking and draw out any potential connections, applications, tangents etc.

Assuming there’s an appetite to continue the readings, we’ll pick the texts and date for the next session following on from this first one. Please bring suggestions for readings if you have them!

To RSVP and for more information, please contact:

Alistair Cartwright (Birkbeck, History of Art) — alistaircartwright@gmail.com

Christy Slobogin (Birkbeck, History of Art) — cslobo01@mail.bbk.ac.uk

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UCL Interdisciplinary Seminar Series: ‘The Aesthetic Experience – Psychoanalysis and the Uncanny’, 11 February 2016

Interdisciplinary Seminar Series
Organised by Lesley Caldwell

“The Aesthetic Experience – Psychoanalysis and the Uncanny”
Gregorio Kohon in conversation with Professor Sharon Morris

Date: Thursday 11 February 2016
Time: 6pm – 7.30pm
Location: UCL Main Campus

For more information and to register please visit: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/events/interdisciplinary-seminars
For any additional queries please contact: events.psychoanalysis@ucl.ac.uk
*Please note that admission is free but places are limited

Psychoanalysis Unit
Research Dept of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology
University College London

Art, literature and psychoanalysis are concerned with the unrepresentable, making silence heard, darkness visible. They share a “commonality of experience”, and the uncanny, as described by Freud, is a fundamental component of that commonality. This also includes the bleakness of borderline experience, uncertainty, anxiety, aloneness, silence; the reception of an artwork may evoke or touch or awaken in ways that may be difficult to understand or even bear. Psychoanalysis and the aesthetic share the task of making a representation of the unrepresentable, but they are separated by their own individual and contrasting ways of making the attempt. The artist Sharon Morris will explore these ideas with the psychoanalyst Gregorio Kohon.

Speaker Biographies
Gregorio Kohon is a Training Analyst of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. Originally from Argentina, he moved to England in 1970, where he studied and worked with R.D.Laing and his colleagues of the anti-psychiatry movement. He has edited and written several books on psychoanalysis and has published four volumns of poetry in Spanish. In 2015, he published Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience –
Psychoanalysis and the Uncanny.

Sharon Morris is an artist and poet, born in west Wales, trained in photography and video at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, where she is currently Deputy Director and Head of the Doctoral Programme. She also holds an MA in psychoanalytic theory from Middlesex University. Her research is concerned with the relationship between words and images and is best described as cross-disciplinary.

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