The Origins of Psychoanalysis in Romanticism: Lecture by Prof. Lessenich May 19
10:15, HS IX, Hauptgebäude
Romanticism and psychoanalysis were the most innovative products of late eighteenth-century Dissent, the religious and aesthetic counter voice to the dominating Neoclassicism of the hegemonic Classical Tradition. Reacting against its dictates of reason, Preromantic philosophers, physicians, poets, and painters rebelled against the rule restricting them to general nature, by cultivating individualism, solitude, sensibility, self-introspection, and by directing their attention from the rational adult and his refined Augustan civilization to the more ‘original’ child, savage, and madman. Thus, Romanticism explored the unconscious long before Freud, and discovered the heterogeneous nature of man, the palimpsestic psyche, the diagnostic relevance of dreams, and childhood trauma.
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