Conference
Freud/Lynch: Behind the Curtain
26 May 2018 – 27 May 2018
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Early bird tickets until 2 April
£55 – £85
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/freudlynch-behind-the-curtain-tickets-43714320710
A limited number of bursary places are available for those under financial hardship.
Bursary places are charged at £20/day.
Address
- 20 Maresfield Gardens
- Hampstead
- London
England - NW3 5SX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Finchley Road
- Nearest tube: Finchley Road, 5 min walk from Museum
- Finchley Road & Frognal , 5 min walk from Museum
A 2-day conference exploring the cinema of David Lynch through a psychoanalytic lens.
About
The films of David Lynch are sometimes said to be unintelligible. They confront us with strange dreamscapes populated with bizarre characters, obscure symbols and an infuriating lack of narrative consistency. Yet despite their opacity, they hold us transfixed.
Lynch, who once told an interviewer “I love dream logic,” would surely agree with Sigmund Freud’s famous claim that “before the problem of the creative artist, psychoanalysis must lay down its arms.” But what else do the two agree on?
Freud/Lynch: Behind the Curtain takes as its point of departure that Lynch’s work is not so much unintelligible as ‘uncanny,’ revealing what Todd McGowan has termed “the bizarre nature of normality” – and the everydayness of what we take to be strange.
This conference invites psychoanalysts, scholars and cinephiles to reflect on these Lynchian enigmas. What do we mean by ‘Lynchian’? Beyond the apparent incoherence of his films, are there hidden logics at play? Are Lynch and Freud in alignment? And what light can psychoanalysis shed on the Lynchian uncanny?
