'The
Angels and the Sparrows: Toward a Critique of Freud's
Theory of Religion' topic of talk at 8 p.m., Monday,
April 17
NEW
YORK, N.Y. - Dr. Joel Whitebook will give a talk "The
Angels and the Sparrows: Towards a Critique of Freud's
Theory of Religion" at 8 p.m., Monday, April 17, at
Altschul Atrium, presented by the Department of German
at Barnard College.
Whitebook
is a practicing analyst, who is on the faculty of
the New York Freudian Society and the Columbia University
Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Next
fall, he will be teaching in a new program on psychoanlysis
under the auspices of The Center for the Study of
Comparative Literature and Society and will be co-chairing
a new University Seminar on psychoanalysis (and
religion).
Whitebook is the author most recently of Perversion
and Utopia : A Study in Psychoanalysis and Critical
Theory (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
published by the MIT Press in 1996.
The book, a sweeping challenge to the postmodern
critiques of psychoanalysis, argues for a reintegration
of Freud's uncompromising investigation of the unconscious
with the political and philosophical insights of
critical theory, in the tradition of Herbert Marcuse's
Eros and Civilization and Paul Ricoeur's Freud and
Philosophy.
The event is made possible through the generous
support of the Louise Stabenau Fund endowed by (her
niece) Mrs. Elisabeth McLaughlin.
Contact:
Michael Levine, Department of German, 212-854-2046
Public Affairs, 212-2854-2037
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