Unconscious Berlin
Unconscious Berlin
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Music/Drive: Speculations with Seth Brodsky
We know that the drive touch everything we do and are as human beings. We also know that music does this as well. Do they touch each other? Does music relate to the drive? Or does it perhaps maintain a curious non-relation to it, possibly even a “sexual relationship”?
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Seth Brodsky is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Chicago. He is the author of From 1989, or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious, and is currently working on Drive/Music, a book about music and the legacy of the Freudian concept of “death drive.” Since 2019, Brodsky serves as director of the Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, which foster...
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Depression and Creativity
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.Год назад
Many of us have experienced depression at some point in our lives, but have you ever thought of it as an excessive creative process that exhausts our capacity to desire and breaks our libidinal ties with the world? In this talk, Leon describes depression not just a pathology, but rather as a unique creative process that aims to transform an unobtainable unknown object into a lost object. Drawin...
The Skin as an Organ of the Libidinal Body
Просмотров 8473 года назад
Psychoanalysis has always been interested in the body. But what is the body psychoanalytically speaking? That is, not the body as organism or the body as image? In this short video essay you can learn about Freud and Lacan’s view on the body as libido: an uncanny and unreal organ that carries us into the domain of the sexual drive. Find more of Unconscious Berlin on our Instagram: instagram.com...
New Perspectives on Autism
Просмотров 1,7 тыс.3 года назад
In this video you can learn about the our unique perspective on autism as a mode-of-being based on Freud's and Lacan's psychoanalysis. In our "What is autism" series we focus on innovative psychoanalytic approached to autism. In the series, Dr. Leon Brenner talks about his unique approach to autism that describes it as a way of being rather than a developmental disorder. Dr. Brenner is a lectur...
Depression and Creativity
Просмотров 4,2 тыс.3 года назад
Why are so many creative people also depressed? Watch our newest video in which Dr. Leon Brenner presents a new perspective on depression, viewing it as a radically creative process. Read more about Dr. Brenner's perspective on depression here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10400419.2019.1658463 Find more of Unconscious Berlin on our Instagram: unconscious.berlin Music by: ...
Queer Psychology and Psychoanalysis
Просмотров 1,5 тыс.3 года назад
In his audio-visual essay Adam Luczak is exploring the idea of queer psychology and psychoanalysis. Starting with the definition of heteronormativity and its direct influence on the mental health of queer people, this short introduction proposes an innovative perspective on how we can bring together queer theory and psychoanalysis. Find more of Unconscious Berlin on our Instagram: instagram.com...
What is Neurodiversity? A Critical Movement for Autism Rights
Просмотров 2,2 тыс.3 года назад
Learn about the Neurodiversity movement and how it promotes the politics and ethics of autism rather than define it as a developmental disorder. In our "What is autism" series we focus on innovative psychoanalytic approached to autism. In the series, Dr. Leon Brenner talks about his unique approach to autism that describes it as a way of being rather than a developmental disorder. Dr. Brenner i...
Autism is a Way of Being and Not a Developmental Disorder: Learn Why
Просмотров 10 тыс.3 года назад
Learn about the way autistic people talk about autism and about how difference it is from the way scientists talk about autism. In our "What is autism" series we focus on innovative psychoanalytic approached to autism. In the series, Dr. Leon Brenner talks about his unique approach to autism that describes it as a way of being rather than a developmental disorder. Dr. Brenner is a lecturer at t...
What Scientists Do Not Know About Autism
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.3 года назад
Learn about some of the scientific approaches to autism today and their importance. In our "What is autism" series we focus on innovative psychoanalytic approached to autism. In the series, Dr. Leon Brenner talks about his unique approach to autism that describes it as a way of being rather than a developmental disorder. Dr. Brenner is a lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University (...
What do People Think About Autism Today and Why
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.3 года назад
Learn about some of the most common ways autism was described in the past and is described today. In our "What is autism" series we focus on innovative psychoanalytic approached to autism. In the series, Dr. Leon Brenner talks about his unique approach to autism that describes it as a way of being rather than a developmental disorder. Dr. Brenner is a lecturer at the International Psychoanalyti...
Welcome to Unconscious Berlin
Просмотров 9003 года назад
Welcome to our channel and our special series on autism. In this series Dr. Leon Brenner will present the findings he developed in the last six years of his research on autism. In it you can expect to hear a lot of intriguing new ideas on autism, its origin, causality, its relationship with language, the body, and much more. Feel free to comment and please subscribe to our channel, as we will c...