What might the study of psychoanalysis in and for the twenty-first century look like? This symposium attempted to answer this question. Gathering on the centennial of the publication of Freud’s own “autobiographical” study, forty scholars, artists, and clinicians took up the idea of a “return to Freud” by addressing psychoanalysis now—and taking its legacies seriously.
This two-day symposium, hosted by the University of California, Berkeley, and The Psychosocial Foundation, brought together a diverse,...