Cycle “Sigmund Freud and Leonardo da Vinci: a Meeting of Psychoanalysis and Art”
From November 27, 2015, the Psychoanalytical Society of Serbia (PSS), a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), in cooperation with the Belgrade City Library, is organizing a cycle of lectures and panel discussions titled “Sigmund Freud and Leonardo da Vinci: a Meeting of Psychoanalysis and Art” that will feature eminent psychoanalysts, artists and experts of different orientations.
The cycle of lectures will take place from November 2015 through June 2016, in the Large Hall ((Reading Room of the Arts Department)) of the Belgrade City Library, Knez Mihailova 56.
Admission is free.
More than a century after the publication of Freud’s essay on Leonardo, debates continue over the broad implications of this pioneering psychoanalytic research. Taking the mentioned Freud’s study as a starting point, the cycle we are presenting aims to renew the topicality of various questions that are still ubiquitous today: how early childhood and fantasies that come with it – which are, by rule, unconscious in adults – permanently show their power? How much a fantasy affects a person’s relationship towards reality? What are the paths of development of the creative in a person and in what relation is it with its counterpart – the dark and destructive side? How can psychoanalysis show that the creative construction bears the imprint of the unconscious of the creator himself, and finally, how much of the scientific, and how much of the artistic is there in psychoanalysis?
The Cycle Programme:
Sigmund Freud: “Leonardo da Vinci, a Memory of His Childhood” – Art on the Psychoanalytic Couch
Friday, November 27, 2015 at 7 p.m.
The Semicircle of Mental Health: Modern Man between Fantasy and Reality
Friday, February 19, 2016 at 7 p.m.
Prometheus of Our Time – about the Creative and the Destructive in the Modern Man
Friday, April 15, 2016 at 7 p.m.
A Movie Screen as a Mirror of the Inner World
Friday, June 10, 2016 at 7 p.m.
Large Hall of the Belgrade City Library, Knez Mihailova 56.
Free admission.
