Freud's Tin Ear: On His Aversion to Music

2 CE Credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, and Psychologists

Joel Whitebook will speak on the significance of Freud’s strong aversion to music, which was especially unusual in Vienna. He argues that this aversion was connected to Freud’s inability to explore the figure of the early mother and archaic experience, which had dire consequences for his thinking and the development of psychoanalysis.

Joel Whitebook is a philosopher and psychoanalyst. He was formerly the director of Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Studies Program and is currently on the faculty of the University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Whitebook is the author of Perversion and Utopia and Freud: An Intellectual Biography as well as many articles on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and critical theory.

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