The Poetry Society and the Freud Museum present an all-day event examining the creative unconscious, with leading speakers from the worlds of poetry, academia and psychoanalysis.
The unconscious, in so far as it refers to the processes of the mind that are not conscious, has always been a central concept in the arts. In science, however, the unconscious only found brief legitimacy in models of the unconscious/subconscious developed by Freud and William James before being relegated to the margins by the ascendency of positivist models of knowledge. Behaviorism dismissed ideas about the unconscious because they could not be empirically verified; logical positivist orthodoxy rendered what is not testable and falsifiable as ‘meaningless’. In this vein, Karl Popper famously claimed that psychoanalysis was a pseudo-science. However, new and ongoing discoveries in cognitive neuroscience during the last twenty years demonstrate that very little of what goes on in the brain is actually conscious, making it possible not only to re-examine earlier models of the unconscious but to witness the role of the unconscious in the human mind as the new frontier of knowledge. This paper will chart the relations between the unconscious and memory as they have been configured in psychoanalytic criticism and cognitive neuroscience to consider the innovations that might emerge from the correlation.
Sincerity and Freedom in Psychoanalysis 1: Analysts, Scholars, Detectives and Patients: Who is who in the Clinical Diary?
Sincerity and Freedom in Psychoanalysis: Opening the Diary
Wagner, Freud and the End of Myth 7: Tom Artin - The Ring in a Nutshell: A Glimpse at The Wagner Complex
Wagner, Freud and the End of Myth 6: Inge Wise - Die Walküre: A Tale of Oedipal Longings and Desires
Wagner, Freud and the End of Myth 5: Bryan Magee in conversation with Stephen Gee - Precursors of the Unconscious: Wagner and the Philosophers
Wagner, Freud and the End of Myth 4: Stephen Gross - Freud and Wagner: The Assault on Reason
Wagner, Freud and the End of Myth 3: Estela Welldon - The Chaste and the Driven: Power struggles in Wagner's Women
Wagner, Freud and the End of Myth 2: Gavin Plumley - Private Theatre and Hysterical Opera: Wagner’s influence in Freud’s Vienna
Wagner, Freud and the End of Myth 1: Anthony Cantle - Introductory Remarks
Whistleblowers: Political and Psychological Perspectives
The German Soul and Psyche in The Third Reich
Self Contained: Graham Music and Maria Walsh in conversation with Rebecca Fortnum
PROJECTIONS 3: Psychoanalytic interpretation of Polanski's Apartment Trilogy
Reading Anna Freud - Author's Talk:Nick Midgley
Self Contained :Rebecca Fortnum
Em Cooper in Conversation with Andrea Sabbadini
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Interpreting Collections Day Symposium Part 5 of 7
Interpreting Collections Day Symposium Part 4 of 7
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