University of Sussex Centre for German-Jewish Studies /
Tavistock Centre
Freud: Dreaming, Creativity and Therapy
A two-day conference on the 4-5 December 1999
at the Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London, NW3
to mark the centenary of *Die Traumdeutung*.
The aim of this two-day conference - organized by the Tavistock Centre
and the University of Sussex Centre for German-Jewish Studies and
coordinated by Stephen Frosh, Laura Marcus and Edward Timms - is to
promote a dialogue between practising therapists and historians of
psychoanalysis in order to undertake a reappraisal of the significance
of dream interpretation both for clinical practice and for cultural
studies.
The first publication of a new English translation of the original
edition of *Die Traumdeutung*, due to appear in the Oxford World
Classics series in November 1999, provides an opportunity to take a
closer look at the original text and assess its continuing relevance.
The Oxford University Press will host a drinks party at the Tavistock
Centre on the evening of Saturday 4th December to mark this
publication.
One of the fundamental question to be addressed is whether the
centenary of Freud's epoch-making definition of the dream as the
"royal road to the unconscious" is a cause for celebration or a time
to lay to rest an outdated theory.
The conference, which will close with a panel discussion, will bring
together speakers from different intellectual and psychoanalytical
traditions. Speakers will include Stephen Frosh, Tavistock Clinic &
Birkbeck College; Edward Timms, University of Sussex; Margot Waddell,
Tavistock Clinic; Ritchie Robertson, St. John's College, Oxford;
Laura Marcus, University of Essex; Martin Stanton, the Centre for
Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Kent.
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Full programme details available at:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/cgjs/temppub/Freud.htm
For further information please contact The Conference Unit,
Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA, Tel: 0171 447
3829, 0171 447 3715, Fax: 0171 447 3837, E-mail [log in to unmask]
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