Symposium / Seminar

Lena Magnone: Symposium ‘The modernities of psychoanalysis: a global approach"- ENS de Lyon

On The April 16, 2025

ENS de Lyon - Buisson building – D8 006 - 15 parvis René Descartes - Lyon 7
From 10 am to 4 pm
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As part of the ‘Problems of Modernity’ seminar, organised by IHRIM's ‘Dire la Santé Mentale’ team (DSM), Lena Magnone, researcher in residence at the Collegium, will give a talk on her two-volume monograph ‘Freud's Emissaries. The Transfer of Psychoanalysis Through the Polish Intelligentsia to Europe 1900-1939’.


Lena Magnone is a literary scholar with a particular interest in Central European modernism, psychoanalysis and women's writing. She defended her Ph.D. (2007) and habilitated (2017) at the University of Warsaw in Poland, where she is a lecturer until 2020. After a Fulbright fellowship at New York University, she moved to Germany, first as a Humboldt Scholar and then as a Research Associate at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Oldenburg. She has recently published a two-volume monograph, Freud's Emissaries. The Transfer of Psychoanalysis by the Polish Intelligentsia to Europe 1900-1939.


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