Ernst Kris: The Role of the Analyst in Times of Historical Crisis with Louis Rose at NYPSI

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
8:15 p.m.
Ernst Kris: The Role of the Analyst in Times of Historical Crisis
Louis Rose, Ph.D.
Professor of Modern European History
Otterbein University

Louis Rose, Ph.D. is the author of The Survival of Images: Art Historians, Psychoanalysts, and the Ancients. Dr. Rose is also the author of The Freudian Calling: Early Viennese Psychoanalysis and the Pursuit of Cultural Science. He is the Recipient of the 1999 Austrian Cultural Institute Prize for Best Book in Austrian Studies. Dr. Rose is the Editor of American Imago (Fall 2011).

The presentation will provide knowledge of the intellectual significance of Ernst Kris’ theories of art, regression, and ego psychology; provide understanding of ways in which psychoanalytic theory responded to the historical crises of the twentieth century; and provide understanding of the role that the idea of crisis has played in both historical and psychoanalytic thought.

Join us for light refreshments from 7:30 to 8 p.m.
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