Dreaming By the Book

Dr. Lydia MarinelliLydia Marinelli (1965-2008) was one of the most brillant Austrian historians of her generation. After studies at the University of Vienna where she took her PhD in 1999, she became curator at the Sigmund Freud Museum and served later as a director of scientific research. Her exhibitions, all realized at the Freud museum Vienna, were major contributions to a renewal of the image of Freud and psychoanalysis. In her publications, she was the first one to study in closer detail the role of the media and of material culture in the making of psychoanalytic knowledge in a deep epistemological sense. Both her dissertation on the International Psychoanalytic publishing house and her collected papers (under the title Tricks der Evidenz, edited by Andreas Mayer, Vienna, Turia + Kant, 2009) were published posthumously.Andreas MayerAndreas Mayer is a historian and sociologist of science, who has published extensively on the history of the human sciences, notably on the history of psychoanalysis and its related discourses and practices. Over the past years, he was a lecturer and research fellow at the University of Cambridge, and a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Since 2007 he is a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute of the History of Science. His most publications are The Science of Walking (forthcoming in German, Fischer, Frankfurt), Situating the Unconscious from Charcot to Freud (Chicago, forthcoming 2011) and a collective volume on Freud’s Rome – Phobia and Phantasy.Susan FairfieldSusan Fairfield is an editor, translator, and poet. She is also the author of papers on literary criticism, a psychoanalyst, and co-editor of Bringing the Plague: Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis. She lives in the Bay Area of California.