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THE ORIGIN OF FREUD'S IMAGINATION

Posted By: THE PHILOCTETES CENTER
Date: Thursday, 23 November 2006, at 3:28 a.m.

THE PHILOCTETES CENTER FOR THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF IMAGINATION
at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute
247 East 82nd Street
(EDWARD NERSESSIAN AND FRANCIS LEVY, CO-DIRECTORS)

in connection with the conference, Freud's Jewish World
invites you to a Roundtable Discussion
Saturday, December 2, 2006 - 3:30pm

THE ORIGIN OF FREUD'S IMAGINATION

What were the influences on Freud and how did they contribute to his imagination? This panel will discuss Freud's Jewish background, his East European origins and his education in Austria. In addition, the roundtable will address such issues as Freud's interest in antiquity and in collecting ancient artifacts and how this aspect of his thought both intersected and conflicted with his Jewish identity.

Participants:

Richard Armstrong is Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston.

Mary Bergstein is a scholar of Italian Renaissance and Professor and Chair of Art and Architectural History at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has published essays on the history of art and the history of psychoanalysis in The Art Bulletin and American Imago, and is the author of The Sculpture of Nanni di Banco.

Mark Edmundson is NEH/Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor of Romantic Poetry and Literary Theory at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Why Read?, Teacher and Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson and Sigmund Freud. He is currently at work on a book to be entitled The Death of Sigmund Freud about Freud's escape from Vienna in 1938.

Ethan Kleinberg is Associate Professor of History and Letters at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Generation Existential: Martin Heidegger's Philosophy in France, 1927-1961, and completing work on his second book, The Myth of Emmanuel Levinas. He is Associate Editor of the journal History and Theory. His current research interests include European intellectual history, critical theory, educational structures, post-colonialism, and the philosophy of history.

Robert Paul (moderator) is Dean of Emory College and Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies.
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The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited on a first-come basis.

The mission of the Philoctetes Center is to foster the study of imagination -- funding research, organizing roundtable discussions, offering courses and programs open to the public. The Center publishes a newsletter, Dialog, and is developing a web-based clearing house on work related to imagination. In addition, the Center will publish its journal, Philoctetes, in the coming months. Visit www.philoctetes.org for more information. You may call at 646-422-0645 or email info@philoctetes.org.