The Sigmund Freud Museum is dedicated to violence in its overarching theme of the year. As part of an online presentation, the museum’s advisory board is now offering “International Perspectives” from the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature, religion and cultural studies. Three of the eight authors live and work in countries that are currently dominated by war and violence: in Iran, Russia and Ukraine.
The Iranian psychoanalyst Gohar Homayounpour, for example, links autobiographical elements with the current unrest in Iran, the protest movement and the death penalty. Her text was illustrated with a work by the Iranian artist Nazgol Ansarinia. The psychoanalyst Victor Mazin, who lives in St. Petersburg, makes a lyrical contribution, standing next to a work by the Russian artist Tanya Akhmetgalieva. In his contribution, the Dutch theologian and psychoanalyst Herman Westerink deals with the violence in the climate and environment, while the psychoanalyst Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, who lives in Vienna, writes regarding triggers and contrasts them with the traumata of American society.
Conference and special exhibition
In addition to the online exhibition, an international conference entitled “IT HURTS! Violence once morest women in art and society” (March 31) is planned for the “Violence” theme year, which will explore new research approaches on the issue of depicting violence from an interdisciplinary perspective once morest women in art up for discussion. A special exhibition entitled “Violence in Comics” examines both the historical and contemporary developments in comic art in the areas of “Sexualized Violence”, “Coming of Age”, “Shoah” and “War & Flight” from a psychoanalytic point of view (October 20 2023 to April 2024).
Service: Online exhibition “Violence – International Perspectives”: https://www.freud-museum.at/de/ausstellung/articles/gewalt-internationale-perspektiven)
