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Double, Double, Toil and Trouble; Narcissism, Mourning & Sexuality: Freud and Lacan meet Dalí and Goldin

An Illustrated Lecture with Claire-Madeline Culkin and Ray O Neill

Tonight, join Dr. Ray O Neill, writer, psychoanalyst and witty Irishman for a lecture illustrating how Freud, Dalí and Lacan’s theories on psychoanalysis, surrealism and representation all mediate the narcissistic double which Freud defines as the uncanny harbinger of death, contrasted with an illustrated lecture by Claire-Madeline Culkin on mourning and sexuality via a psychoanalytic lens on the work of Nan Goldin.

Freuds 1922 paper, Some Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia, and Homosexuality
moved psychoanalytic discourse beyond narcissism as the bedrock for homo-sexual desires, arguing paranoia as another cause. This was the first paper of Freud’s that Lacan officially translated in 1932, utilizing Freud’s theories for his doctoral research, investigated homo-doublings and homo-sexuality within paranoid structures, delusions and manifestations. Just as Freud universalized homosexual unconscious wishes, so Lacan normalizes paranoid delusions, not as false meanings but personal ones, psychical functions of representation. Both Freud and Lacan would attract the attention of Dalí precisely because of these theorizations on paranoia, narcissism and ideal-egos, with not a little sublimated homosexuality being informed. Dalí’s Metamorphosis of Narcissus illustrates these psychoanalytic queries, motivated consciously and unconsciously by Dalí’s own personal questions, paranoia and sexuality, which converged around his own actual double, the original Other Salvador Dalí, his dead older brother.











When: Fri., May. 27, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: Morbid Anatomy Museum
424 Third Ave. Brooklyn

Price: $12
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An Illustrated Lecture with Claire-Madeline Culkin and Ray O Neill

Tonight, join Dr. Ray O Neill, writer, psychoanalyst and witty Irishman for a lecture illustrating how Freud, Dalí and Lacan’s theories on psychoanalysis, surrealism and representation all mediate the narcissistic double which Freud defines as the uncanny harbinger of death, contrasted with an illustrated lecture by Claire-Madeline Culkin on mourning and sexuality via a psychoanalytic lens on the work of Nan Goldin.

Freuds 1922 paper, Some Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia, and Homosexuality
moved psychoanalytic discourse beyond narcissism as the bedrock for homo-sexual desires, arguing paranoia as another cause. This was the first paper of Freud’s that Lacan officially translated in 1932, utilizing Freud’s theories for his doctoral research, investigated homo-doublings and homo-sexuality within paranoid structures, delusions and manifestations. Just as Freud universalized homosexual unconscious wishes, so Lacan normalizes paranoid delusions, not as false meanings but personal ones, psychical functions of representation. Both Freud and Lacan would attract the attention of Dalí precisely because of these theorizations on paranoia, narcissism and ideal-egos, with not a little sublimated homosexuality being informed. Dalí’s Metamorphosis of Narcissus illustrates these psychoanalytic queries, motivated consciously and unconsciously by Dalí’s own personal questions, paranoia and sexuality, which converged around his own actual double, the original Other Salvador Dalí, his dead older brother.

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