The lecture will focus on the transformation of the city of Vienna in the second half of the nineteenth century, the immigration of Jews to Vienna and the importance of religion during this period, and Freud‘s biography. I would like to show how all of this contributed to determine Freud‘s invention of a scientific vocabulary for his newly defined discipline of psychoanalysis.
Liliane Weissberg is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Science and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of numerous books and articles on German and American literature and German-Jewish culture. Most recently, she published Hannah Arendt, Charlie Chaplin, and the Hidden Jewish Tradition (Graz, 2009), Affinität wider Willen? Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno und die Frankfurter Schule (Frankfurt, 2011) and her anthology Picture This! Writing with Photography (with Karen Beckman, Minneapolis, 2013). Weissberg has taught as a visiting professor at numerous universities in the United States, Germany, and Austria.
Zeit und Ort: Montag, 30.06.2014, 09:00-12:30 Uhr, Schloss Seggau, Seggauberg 1, 8430 Leibnitz
