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Psychoanalysis
Lectures
Sponsored by the Trinity College English Department and the Allan K.
Smith Fund
Coverage Opportunity
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The Trinity College English Department announces its 2004-05 lecture
series on psychoanalysis, sponsored by the Allan K. Smith fund.
The topics to
be discussed include “American Character and our Cultural Moment,” by
Murray M. Schwartz Professor of Writing, Literature and Publishing at
Emerson College, and “One Hundred Years of Psychoanalysis,” by
psychoanalyst Elisabeth Young-Bruehl. |
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American Character and our Cultural Moment
Murray M. Schwartz
- Monday, September 20, 4:00 p.m.: American Tensions.
- Monday, October 11, 4:00 p.m.: The Imprisoned Psyche:
American Character and Global Terror.
- Monday, November 15, 4:00 p.m.: The Psychic Space of
Freedom.
One Hundred Years of Psychoanalysis
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
- Thursday, October 7, 4:00 p.m.: Is There A Wish In Your
Every Dream?
- Thursday, November 11, 4:00 p.m.: Where Have All The
Hysterics Gone?
- Thursday, January 27, 4:15 p.m.: Sexuality, Then and Now.
Respondent: Murray Schwartz.
- Thursday, February 24, 4:15 p.m.: Civilizations and their
Discontents Respondent: Murray Schwartz.
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Where:
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All
lectures are to be held in McCook Auditorium, on the Trinity
Campus. |
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Background: |
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Schwartz is the former provost of Claremont
Graduate University, former dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and currently serves
as professor of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson
College in Boston. He is also coeditor
of Representing Shakespeare and Memory and Desire
and the author of numerous essays on psychoanalysis and
literature, including work on Holocaust accounts.
Young-Bruehl
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 two award; winning biographies:
Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World and Anna Freud: A
Biography. She has written a number
of other books, including Mind and the Body Politic,
Freud on Women, The Anatomy of Prejudices, and
Where Do We Fall When We Fall In Love?
She received her Ph.D. in philosophy under the supervision
of Hannah Arendt at the New School for Social Research, and has
taught at Wesleyan University and Haverford College. |
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For Immediate
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