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Tamás Ullmann | Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Phenomenology

Faculty of Humanities' Department of Philosophy cordially invites everyone interested in modern philosophical approaches to psychoanalysis to a lecture by Tamás Ullmann from the University of Budapest. The lecture will take place on March 23rd at 14:30 in room 1.31.

Abstract:

Psychoanalysis is simultaneously a psychological theory, therapeutic practice, anthropology, and cultural theory. The lecture focuses on those aspects that may be relevant to phenomenology and anthropology. These are, above all, Freud's models of unconscious processes. The lecture centers on the question of what exactly we mean by the unconscious and how we can conceptually grasp the unconscious processes. The lecture presents the difference between primary and secondary processes, the difference between repression and defence, the difference between topological and structural models.

In the first part of the lecture, we will examine the historical context of the concept of the unconscious. In the second part, we will look at the anthropological implications of Freud's theory. In the final part, we will examine the problem of the unconscious from the perspective of contemporary phenomenological research.

Tamás Ullmann is professor of philosophy at the ELTE University of Budapest. His research field is German idealism, phenomenology and french philosophy.