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Freud’s Tin Ear: The Significance of Freud’s Aversion for Psychoanalysis

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City

A lecture by Professor Joel Whitebook, Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Columbia University Presenting material from his new book, Professor Whitebook will investigate the psychoanalytic significance of Freud's problematic relationship to music. From Deutsches Haus Columbia.

Leitmotif Siegfried

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

he NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU present "Leitmotif Siegfried," a lecture by Laurence A. Rickels. In his lecture „Leitmotif Siegfried,“ Laurence A. Rickels reenters the exchange between Walter Benjamin and Alexander Mette, which led to Mette’s review of Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels in Imago and brought Benjamin to consider the clinical picture of schizophrenia, the topic…