Reawakening Freud

International conference on Die Traumdeutung.

2025 marks the 125 years anniversary of Sigmund Freud’s Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams). On this occasion, The Danish Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis will host an international conference on Freud’s groundbreaking book.

The Interpretation of Dreams has been and still is a great source of inspiration not only for clinically working psychoanalysts, but also for analysts of society, culture, art, and literature, as well as for philosophers and cultural theorists. The conference will explore how Freud’s concepts and methods, initially centered on dreams, can inspire contemporary discussions within philosophy, health humanities, and arts & cultural studies.

How can the book’s ideas, methods and concepts be reawakened today when unfolded in (analyses of) art works, literary texts, activist movements, individual and collective dreams, ideological statements, slogans etc.? What (explicit and implicit) theories of subject and language do the book present, and how do they relate to other, historical and contemporary, theories? What novel ways of engaging with psychoanalytical vocabulary and approaches can be discerned?

The price for participation is 600 kr. and 400 kr. if you are a student.