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    Anna Freud and ‘The Conscience of Society’

    FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2020  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM

    2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

    Practitioners and General Public: $40

     

    Students: $10

     

    Out of the cultural and political ferment of inter-war Vienna emerged the Hietzing School, founded in the 1920s by Anna Freud and Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham. To Erik H. Erikson, who taught there, it was “the best possible school.” This lecture will explore the school’s daily operations and its significance, from the perspectives of both its teachers and its students, all within its own historical context and that of psychoanalysis.

    The original impulse to establish a psychoanalytically informed progressive school, however, occurred in Budapest, on September 28, 1918, when Sigmund Freud asserted that “the conscience of society will awake.” Anna Freud was present for one of the most consequential papers of Freud’s career, and from that day forward, she pursued a life of teaching and discovery that merged psychoanalysis, research on child development, and programs designed to meet the educational and psychological needs of the young child.

    Elizabeth Ann Danto’s talk will conclude with a screening of the new film Anna Freud and “The Conscience of Society.” The breadth of the film’s images come from a range of private and public collections in Europe and America, and the narrative is drawn from Anna Freud’s own writings on theory and practice from the 1920s through the 1960s, from Vienna to London.

    Elizabeth Ann Danto, PhD, is professor emeritus at Hunter College of the City University of New York, a writer, and an international lecturer on the history of psychoanalysis as a system of thought and a marker of urban culture. She is a consulting curator with the Freud Museum London. Dr. Danto is the author of Historical Research (Oxford University Press, 2008), and her book Freud’s Free Clinics – Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918–1938 (Columbia University Press, 2005) received the Gradiva Book Award and the Goethe Prize. With Alexandra Steiner-Strauss, she recently co-edited the book Freud/Tiffany: Anna Freud, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the ‘Best Possible School’ (Routledge, 2018).

    Practitioners and General Public: $40

     

    Students: $10

     

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