Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 2, Part 2

Part 2: Mnemosyne: Memory & Unconscious

This two-day symposium explores Warburg’s ideas and their adumbrations, e.g., his preoccupations with – and intuitions about – memory, both in relation to different forms of artistic creation and in anticipation of concepts related to neuroplasticity and neuroesthetics; the significance and fluency of the image – its elliptical and metaphoric functions – and of affect for the phenomena and qualia of chronology and memory, in concert with contemporary understanding of the dynamic unconscious; and the interdisciplinary mode of thought – the philosophical and art historical, cosmographic and historical – at the heart of Warburg’s atlas. Schedule for Sunday, October 13th: 9:30 am – 11:15 am: Psychosis & Creativity: Binswanger & Warburg roundtable: François Ansermet, Peter Loewenberg, Spyros Papapetros, Robert Penzer, and Louis Rose; 11:30 am – 1:15 pm: Mnemosyne: Memory & Unconscious roundtable: Cristina Alberini, Siri Hustvedt, Christopher Johnson, Joseph LeDoux, and Pierre Magistretti; 1:15 pm – 2:45 pm: Lunch break; 2:45 pm – 4:15 pm: Additional questions/comments regarding both Sunday roundtables and wrap-up

Free and open to the public.