VIENNA 1900. BIRTH OF A VISIONARY MOVEMENT - Panel 3: Psychoanalysis and Literature

Vienna 1900 has become a hallmark for the city’s outstanding innovative capacities in formulating modern thought and highlighting the paradoxes of modernity. Renowned experts from Austria, the US and Great Britain will present the latest research on this topic and reflect on potentialities for cultural and societal innovation in the 2020s.

A two-day conference of the Vienna Institute for Cultural and Contemporary History and Arts (VICCA), the Vienna Library in the Town Hall, and topos.ORF.at (The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation), in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.

MAY 3rd, 2024

Panel 3: Rethinking Traditions and Innovation in Psychoanalysis and Literature during the Viennese Cultural Revolution

“You’ve taught me to write, yes, almost to think.” (Arnold Schönberg to Karl Kraus, 1911)

Daniela Finzi, Scientific Director of the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna
George Makari, Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, NY
Alys George, Stanford University / ifk International Research Center for Cultural Studies (Vienna)
Katharina Prager, Vienna Library at the Town Hall
Moderator: Gerald Heidegger, chief editor TOPOS, ORF.at