Lectures in Criticism - Lecture 1: Ruben Gallo
- Starts: 5:00 pm on Thursday, September 26, 2013
- Ends: 7:00 pm on Thursday, September 26, 2013
Title: "Sigmund Freud and Octavio Paz: Orientalism and Eroticisim."
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Rubén Gallo, an award-winning writer and scholar, is the author of Freud’s Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis (2010), a study of Freud’s fantasies about Mexico. He has also published Mexican Modernity: the Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution (2005), about the Mexican avant-garde’s fascination with machines, and two books about Mexico City’s visual culture: New Tendencies in Mexican Art (2004) and The Mexico City Reader (2004). He is currently at work on a new book, Marcel Proust’s Latin Americans. He is a member of the board of the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienn and in 2009 he was the Freud-Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Psychoanalysis in Austria. He teaches at Princeton University.
- Speaker(s)
- Ruben Gallo
- Event Open To
- public
- Building
- Photonics Center
- Room
- 906
- Show Fees
- free
- Contact Organization
- BU Center for the Humanities
- Contact Name
- Magdalena Malinowska
- Information Phone
- 617-820-1373
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- A reception will follow the lecture.
- Contact Email
- mmalina@bu.edu
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