Ricky DeSantis, a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Fordham University and the 2024–25 Fulbright-ifk Junior Fellow, will give a public lecture entitled Translating Psychoanalysis. From Vienna to New York and Back Again. The first part of the lecture looks at the translation of psychoanalysis into the American lexicon and culture, with particular focus on the ways in which figures like Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse brought with them a psy-choanalytically inspired politics of sexual liberation. The second part examines the current state of psychotherapy in Austria (and Western Europe more broadly), focusing on the ways in which American approaches to psychiatry have in turn influenced the political values of contemporary Austria.
This lecture will be hybrid. No registration is required to attend in person. However, registration is required to join online.
