Program
The lecture cycle Psychoanalysis in the Space of Sounds is devoted to various aspects of the relationship between music and psychoanalysis. The first series of the cycle consists of four lectures.
Details
The first lecture The Vienna Revolutions of Freud and Schoenberg is devoted to two revolutions: while the first one was related to the question of hearing — how we listen (Freud), the second concerned composition — how one can write music (Schoenberg). According to the lecturer, a psychoanalyst and an art theorist Viktor Mazin, these two revolutions in the ideas about the relationship between the listener and the performer are in tune with one another. In addition, the lecture will focus on Freud’s own relationship with music, which the lecturer characterizes as “difficult, ambivalent and even paradoxical.”