Psychology and stalinism, Freud and Stalin, are two topics that had a great resonance in the 30’s in Mexico. The ‘Tertulia’ series of talks at Instituto Cervantes New York presents award-winning writer and scholar Rubén Gallo in a lecture about his recent book ‘Freud and Stalin in Mexico’ a discussion of the clash between psychoanalysis and Stalinism in Mexico during the 1930s. The book explores the quirky ways in which Mexican writers and artists, from Octavio Paz to Remedios Varo, read psychoanalytic texts -- and also includes a discussion on Freud’s ideas about Mexico. This volume is considered the first cultural history of psychoanalysis in Mexico.
Rubén Gallo is an award-winning writer and scholar. He is the author of Freud’s Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis (2010), an essay about Freud’s fantasies about Mexico. He has also published Mexican Modernity: the Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution (2005), an essay 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 on Marcel Proust’s Latin Americans. He is a member of the board of the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, and in 2009 he was the Freud-Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Psychoanalysis in Austria. He teaches at Princeton University and lives in New York City.
Rubén Gallo received his B.A. in English from Yale University, and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He taught at Cornell and the University of Toronto before coming to Princeton in 2002. At Princeton, he teaches courses on Freud, the avant-garde, and other aspects of twentieth-century culture. He has directed the Program in Latin American Studies since 2008.
Gallo’s Mexican Modernity is a study of the Mexican avant-garde’s fascination with machines. Gallo has taught several courses on this topic at Princeton, and in 2003 he organized an international conference on “Radio and the Sound of Modernity,” one of the topics explored in the book..He is now working on a book on Proust’s Latin Americans -- the first study of Marcel Proust’s friendships and love affairs with Latin Americans.
More information about the author and the book at: www.rubengallo.com
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