Psychoanalysis
in Berlin-Mitte

Sophia Léonard, Ph.D.

Psychoanalysis, Literary Studies, Translation

Ph.D. thesis on the relation between image and language in Peter Weiss' biographical dramas (Cornell University). Studies in German and French philology, comparative literature and German studies in Tübingen, Bamberg, Wien, Aix-en-Provence and Ithaca (USA)

Teaching: Department of German Studies, Cornell University; Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, Cornell University (2018-21)

Translation of poetry as well as various theoretical texts in the fields of philology and cultural studies 


Member of PsyBi – Psychoanalytische Bibliothek Berlin. Space for Research and Practice after Freud and Lacan

Member of gtw - Association for Theatre Studies

Former Member of Versatorium - Association for Poetry and Translation (2014-18)

 

... up to Freud, the whole study of human affaire began to a greater or lesser extent from a concern about morality, about ethics, in the sense that it is less a question of studying desire than here and now of reducing and disciplining it. Now, it is with the effects of desire in a very broad sense, desire is not one of the ancillary effects, the effects of desire, that we have to deal in psychoanalysis.

- Jacques Lacan, Seminar V: The Formations of the Unconscious, March 5, 1958 (translation by Cormac Gallagher)