International Day Conference: Wagner's Parsifal and the Challenge to Psychoanalysis

In our conference 'Wagner, Freud and the End of Myth' (2013) we argued that by taking the mythic dimension and bringing it into the human realm, Wagner anticipated Freud in his depiction of unconscious processes of the mind. It could be said that Freud and Wagner were dealing with the same stuff - the “fundamental psychosexual issues that affect us all” as Barry Millington put it, and for that reason a fruitful dialogue can exist between their two bodies of work. The present conference is entirely devoted to Wagner’s final masterpiece, Parsifal, and explores whether this sublime, troubling and contentious work prefigures psychoanalytic insight or resists psychoanalytic interpretation. As a story of compassion and redemption, which nevertheless describes a world of perversion and mental anguish, what can Parsifal tell us about the secret springs of human desire and the conflicts of human nature? And how did Wagner manage to create it?
Admission
Full Price: £64 Students/Concessions: £48 £6 Reduction for Members of the Freud Museum.

Website
https://freud.org.uk/events/76442/wagners-parsifal-and-the-challenge-to-psychoanalysis/#tombiog

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/se000274?id=EVENT555823