Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Intrapsychic Dynamics in Bertha Pappenheim’s ‘In the Junk Shop’ |
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| Venue | : | Online |
| Date | : | 20/02/2025 |
| Duration | : | 6 - 7:30 pm GMT |
| Extra Info | : | A paper delivered by Anil Aykan as part of the Freudian Research Seminar Series. This talk examines Bertha Pappenheim’s book ‘In the Junk Shop’, published in 1890, through Freud’s structural models of the mind and Kleinian theory, exploring themes of melancholia, psychic splitting, the Oedipal situation, and reparation. The book’s setting, a junk shop, serves as a symbolic representation of the unconscious, housing repressed emotions and unresolved conflicts. Freud’s concept of melancholia is reflected in the narrative’s portrayal of internalised grief and self-reproach, while Kleinian theory elucidates psychic splitting through the second-hand objects’ oscillation between idealisation and devaluation. The Oedipal situation emerges in the dynamics of unresolved attachments, while themes of reparation underscore the characters’ struggles to reconcile feelings of love, loss, and guilt. This analysis draws an analogy between the book’s symbolic elements and psychoanalytic concepts, offering a personal interpretation of Pappenheim’s narrative through the lens of intrapsychic themes. |
| Organised By | : | Freud Museum London |
| Web Link | : | https://www.freud.org.uk/event/freudian-research-seminar-intrapsychic-dynamics-in-bertha-pappenheims-in-the-junk-shop/ |