Vortrag: Psychoanalysis and Human Sacrifice Event

Freud’s Mexican Antiquities:
Psychoanalysis and Human Sacrifice

Ruben Gallo

Vortrag in englischer Sprache
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Freud was an avid collector and acquired over 2,000 antiquities from around the world. In recent years the Greek, Roman, and Egyptian pieces in the collection have received much scholarly attention. But the collection also includes pieces from Latin America: a Peruvian Moche figure and two objects from pre-Columbian Mexico - one of which forms part of the permanent collection at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. What do these objects tell us about Freud as collector of world cultures? How do they relate to the psychoanalytic theory of the development of civilization? Rubén Gallo will use Freud’s Mexican antiquities as a point of departure to explore the psychoanalytic view of pre-Columbian Mexico - a culture that fascinated scholars of Freud’s generation, from Walter Benjamin to Georges Bataille.

Ruben Gallo ist Direktor des Studienprogramms für lateinamerikanische Studien an der Princeton University und Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis im Wintersemester 2009/2010. In Kürze erscheint sein neues Buch Freud’s Mexico: into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis (MIT Press). Weitere Publikationen: Mexican Modernity: the Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution (MIT, ausgezeichnet mit dem Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, 2005), New Tendencies in Mexican Art (Palgrave, 2004) und The Mexico City Reader (2004).

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