Jean-Michel Rabaté – “Crystal gazing at the Wall”: Freud A.D.H.D.

Saturday April 21, 2018
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
30 Charlton Street, Suite 1
New York, NY 10014

“Crystal gazing at the Wall”: Freud A.D.H.D.

Please join us for a seminar with Jean-Michel Rabaté, moderated by Kerry Moore, devoted to the productive interaction of Freud with his analysand, the American poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), a successful psychoanalysis and one of Freud’s latest cases.

Jean Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, after having taught in Dijon, Paris, Montréal and Princeton. He is one of the managing editors of the Journal of Modern Literature. He chairs the Forum for Philosophy and Literature at the MLA. He is one of the founders of Slought Foundation, and a curator of exhibitions, conferences, lectures and conversations and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rabaté has authored 25 books and edited 15 collections of essays. Recent titles include Crimes of the Future (Bloomsbury, 2014), The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis (Cambridge University Press, 2014), The Pathos of Distance, (Bloomsbury, 2016), Think, Pig! (Fordham University Press, 2016), Les Guerres de Jacques Derrrida, (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2016), and Rust, (Bloomsbury, 2018), as well two forthcoming collections: After Derrida, (Cambridge University Press), and The New Beckett (Cambridge University Press).

Kerry Moore, PhD, is a candidate at the Contemporary Freudian Society, a member of Das Unbehagen and former member of the London Circle of the European School of Psychoanalysis. She received her MA in the History of Art and PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in The Drama Review, Women & Performance, and Division/Review.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL

To register, please email Patricia Gherovici at pgherovici@aol.com