The Analytic Museum: Freud's Curatorial Phantasm

Event Price: Event is free. Optional CE fee is $10.

Attendance: This is a hybrid event - in person and online attendance is available.

NOTE: Online attendees will have a Webinar experience with no ability to interact with the speaker. 

Continued Education (CEU): 1.5 credits *Note CME’s will not be offered at this event.

NOTE: Pre-registration is encouraged. Walk-ins registration is available. No CEs available for walk-ins. 

There is a considerable bibliography of writings about the vast collection of early objects, most from Egypt and the classical Mediterranean, filled Freud’s working spaces at Berggasse 19 in Vienna. He spoke frequently of the close relationship between his methods and those of the archaeologist; indeed, the language of fieldwork appeared in a number of his writings. Although it is not difficult to imagine this first psychoanalytic site as akin to excavation, there is a layer of meaning that existed for many of these fragments before their unearthing: they were taken from graves, never intended to be disturbed. However, for Freud’s metaphor to function, the disruption of the burial and subversion of the intentions of those whose objects he collected must essentially be forgotten. This talk will consider the functioning of cultural amnesia that accompanied acts of collecting, both in spaces devoted to the aesthetic and to the psychical. 

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will articulate the importance of interdisciplinary research in the history of psychoanalysis for contemporary clinical theory.

2. Participants will explain the importance of cultural competence and its ethical implications in clinical practice. 

CE information will be sent to all attendees the week after the event.

Refunds are available only with pre-event cancellation.

The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the Ohio Psychological Association-MCE Program to offer continuing education for psychologists.  The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, as Approved Provider 18PO-341019020, maintains responsibility for the program.  This event provides 1.5 CE to psychologists. The State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage & Family Therapist Board accepts this approval for licensees. This event provides 1.5 CE to counselors and social workers only.