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SECOND INTERNATIONAL HEALTH HUMANITIES CONFERENCE Music, Health, and Humanity The Colleges of the Arts and of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA, are hosting the Second International Health Humanities Conference from Thursday-Saturday, 9, 10, 11 August, 2012. CONFERENCE FOCUS In accordance with the interdisciplinary nature of the Health Humanities, [ READ MORE ]
A few days ago, actor Viggo Mortensen visited the Freud Museum in London and participated in a lively Q&A session about his latest film, A Dangerous Method. The Hollywood News published an article about this session, conducted by Chair of the Museum, Lisa Appignanesi: It’s a mid-week evening at the Freud Museum just off Finchley Road in [ READ MORE ]
“It is bizarre how little of twentieth-century science has been assimilated into twentieth century art”. – C.P. Snow, 1959 In his 1959 lecture “The Two Cultures” C.P. Snow asserted that the intellectual life of western society was increasingly being split into two polar groups: the sciences, and the humanities. The notion that visual artists and [ READ MORE ]
21 January – Oedipus through the Life Cycle: Infancy The story of Oedipus can be used to explore significant aspects of emotional development from many perspectives. The myth was the foundation for Freud’s theory of the Oedipus complex, mainly unconscious feelings of wanting to posses the parent of the opposite sex. Melanie Klein through her [ READ MORE ]
Les Patients de Freud. Destins Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen “Tout le monde connaît les personnages décrits par Freud dans ses récits de cas : Elisabeth von R., Dora, l’Homme aux rats, l’Homme aux loups. Mais connaît-on les personnes réelles qui se cachaient derrière ces pseudonymes fameux : Ilona Weiss, Ida Bauer, Ernst Lanzer, Sergius Pankejeff? Plus généralement, que [ READ MORE ]
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