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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 28.09.2023
    Coding Utopias
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    There is no shortage of critiques of utopian imaginaries for being coded in colonial, Western, masculine, Christian, and extractive ideologies. Utopia has been, and continues to be, an often violent gesture that chooses the future of select groups...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Interdisciplinarity and 5 more
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  2. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 26.10.2021
    Prekäre Verkörperungen: Die Figur des Helden zwischen Exemplarität und Singularität
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Vortrag: 26. Oktober 2021, 20:00 Uhr Was ist ein Held, eine Heldin? Eine Figur, die bestimmte menschliche Eigenschaften, verkörpert, die wir für exemplarisch halten und Dinge tut, die vorbildlich sind?Ein normatives Beispiel also, das an unser...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 26.07.2021
  3. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 27.10.2020
    Lecture: The Ambivalent Translator. On Psychoanalysis, Philology, and Translation (Andreas Mayer)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In The Interpretation of Dreams , Freud famously compared the act of interpreting a dream to the translation of a text. This metaphorical use of translation has not only had an impact on the way psychoanalysts understand their own practice, but...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 06.03.2020
  4. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 17.11.2020
    Prekäre Verkörperungen: Die Figur des Helden zwischen Exemplarität und Singularität (Andreas Cremonini)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Was ist ein Held, eine Heldin? Eine Figur, die bestimmte menschliche Eigenschaften, verkörpert, die wir für exemplarisch halten und Dinge tut, die vorbildlich sind? Ein normatives Beispiel also, das an unser Handeln appelliert und zur Identifikation,...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 1 more
    Created on: 24.01.2020
  5. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 10.03.2020
    Lecture: Hashtag Confessions: What Can Psychoanalysis Say About #MeToo? (Nadine Hartmann)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Public feminism today travels by way of a technological update of collective speech acts of avowal and confession understood as already constituting political action — a practice familiar from 1970s feminism. And correspondingly, critiques of ...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 09.12.2019
  6. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 14.01.2020
    Lecture: Nachträglichkeit:
 Freuds brisante Erinnerungstheorie (Ilka Quindeau)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ilka Quindeau greift das Konzept der Deckerinnerung auf und entfaltet anhand der Metaphern von Spur und Umschrift eine psychoanalytische Gedächtniskonzeption, bei der dem Konzept der Nachträglichkeit zentrale Bedeutung zukommt. Ilka Quindeau hat...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
    Created on: 25.11.2019
  7. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 14.01.2020
    Psychoanalytische Kulturwissenschaft (Lecture Series 2020)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Vortragsreihe widmet sich dem Einfluss der Psychoanalyse auf die Kulturtheorien im Allgemeinen sowie besonders treffenden Anwendungen psychoanalytischen Verstehens auf aktuelle Phänomene. Die zentralen psychoanalytischen Konzepte Freuds und...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 08.11.2019
  8. Arnd Wedemeyer
    University or institution: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and law; Literature and philosophy; Lyric poetry; Theory of translation

  9. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 26.02.2019
    Lecture: Die leise Arbeit des Todestriebs. Eine kleine Theoriegeschichte des Begehrens von 1968 bis zur Queer Theory
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Im 1972 erschienen Anti-Ödipus denken Gilles Deleuze und Félix Guattari Begehren als nomadisch mäandernde, transformative Kraft. Dieses Manifest der ›Philosophie des Begehrens‹ inspiriert Guy Hocqenghem, Vordenker der Queer Theory, der diese Idee...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
    Created on: 20.02.2019
  10. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 14.05.2019
    Lecture: Critique of Fantasy: Between a Crypt and a Date Mark
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    With George Lucas’s Star Wars , we entered the Heimat of blockbusters, which lies in the borderlands of the fantasy and science fiction genres folding out of and staggering a contest that J. R. R. Tolkien inaugurated in the 1930s around his...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
    Created on: 20.02.2019
  11. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 23.04.2019
    Lecture: Dr. Freud meets Dr. Schnitzler: A Case Study of the Ambivalent Intersections between Psychoanalysis and Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) was a central figure of Viennese modernism, living and working in the Habsburg metropolis at the same time as Sigmund Freud (1856–1939). The talk will introduce the productive, but also extremely ambivalent intellectual...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 20.02.2019
  12. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 04.06.2018
    Fixation: Freud’s Queer Counter-Concept
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The talk will examine how ‘fixation’ is associated with some of the most inventive and enigmatic moments in Freud’s accounts of the body, sexuality, and time. In one of Freud’s earliest clinical publications from the late 1880s, the term ‘fixation’...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
    Created on: 12.12.2018