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"Sexuality, Then and
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Elisabeth
Young-Bruehl to speak at Trinity College
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As part
of the lecture series on psychoanalysis,
Elisabeth Young- Bruehl, Ph.D., will speak at Trinity College on
Sexuality, Then and Now. The lecture is
sponsored by the Allan K. Smith fund of the
Trinity College English Department. The lecture will provide an
introduction to the intellectual history of psychoanalysis. In
addition, Young-Bruehl will discuss four areas of psychoanalytic
theory and practice by exploring clusters of questions and sites of
contention from Freud’s time to the present. |
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Thursday, January 27, at 4:15 p.m. |
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McCook Auditorium, on the Trinity campus |
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Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, who has taught at Wesleyan University and
Haverford College, is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City
and on the faculty of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research. She is the author of biographies of Hannah
Arendt and Anna Freud, and is the author of several nonfiction
books, including Freud on Women, Global Cultures, Cherishment,
and The Anatomy of Prejudices, which won the prize for Best
Book in Psychology in 1996. She taught at Wesleyan in the College
of Letters and at Haverford College, and now has a private
practice in psychotherapy in Manhattan.
The lecture is open to the public and
requires no registration. For more information, contact
Dianne Hunter at (860) 297-2462. |
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