08.05.26 — g. 17.15
wykład online w języku angielskim
Wydział Fotografii zaprasza serdecznie na kolejne spotkanie z cyklu Teoria i Praktyka Obrazowania z wykładowcą, edukatorem, filozofem i psychoanalitykiem Leonem S. Brennerem, mieszkającym w Berlinie i współpracującym z wieloma instytucjami z całego świata, m.in. King’s College London, Duke University, Ghent University czy Columbia University. Spotkanie odbędzie się w piątek 08.05.2026 o godzinie 17.15 i będzie miało formę wykładu online w języku angielskim (link poniżej).
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Mourning, melancholia, and creative work
What is an image doing for the subject when it creates, desires, or mourns? This lecture approaches that question through Freud and Lacan, with particular attention to melancholia. Its central claim is that mourning and melancholia are not simply two states of loss, but two distinct forms of creative activity. In mourning, creative work proceeds through the image and through symbolic rearticulation. It can therefore re-establish a relation to desire and to the world. Melancholia is more radical. It names a form of creativity that no longer remains within the limits of representation, but presses toward an impossible point beyond the image. In this sense, melancholia does not merely inhibit creation. It can also intensify it, but in a way that becomes destructive. For an audience working in art and cultural studies, the lecture offers a psychoanalytic way of thinking about image, imagination, and aesthetic production at the point where they encounter the limits of reality.
Dr. Leon S. Brenner (Ph.D) is a Berlin-based psychoanalytic practitioner, researcher, and lecturer whose work spans psychoanalysis, philosophy, mental health, and critical approaches to subjectivity and care. His research engages questions of language, embodiment, love, psychopathology, and sociality, with autism forming one important focus of his work.
Dr. Brenner has extensive international teaching and lecturing experience across universities and professional institutes in Europe, North America, and Asia. He has taught and delivered lectures, seminars, and advanced training at institutions including the King’s College London, Duke University, Ghent University, Duquesne University, and Columbia University, as well as at numerous psychoanalytic and interdisciplinary training institutes worldwide.
