Johannes Turk brings us up to date on an interesting year: “I was invited to give a lecture at a conference on trauma in Paris, in which both academics and psychoanalysts participated in December. While I tried to measure the distance that separates us today from Freud, who used Tasso and therefore a conversion story from the time of the crusades as paradigm for the literary representation of trauma, the “yellow vests” were demonstrating and France was in disarray. In the spring, I had the opportunity to present a lecture on “Inconsolability” as response crisis as an ethos at the University of San Francisco’s Department of Philosophy. I have also begun to prepare a new book project on taking offense. At the same time, I try to steer the Institute of German Studies in difficult waters and to keep (with my colleagues) our department’s graduate program afloat in a period with a difficult job market and strong competition for a smaller pool of graduate applicants.”
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