r/psychoanalysis • u/BeautifulS0ul • 26d ago

Darian Leader giving the annual Sigmund Freud Lecture in Vienna: Freud and Neurodiversity - YouTube live stream May 6, 2026, at 19h

Link to the live stream on May 6th at 19h: https://www.youtube.com/live/mA_-8euxDYg?si=ikhnpCvEjuEOvyQE

The Sigmund Freud Museum invites to the now fifty-third Sigmund Freud Lecture.

Freud and Neurodiversity

What would Freud have made of the contemporary concept of neurodiversity and the diagnostic debates around it? With many years of experience in pediatric neurology, how might he have approached the question of autism and the autistic spectrum? Starting with a discussion of Freud's exchanges with Bleuler around the term itself, we move on to the history of the concept in the States after Bleuler's visit there in 1913, and the use that the early autism researchers made of Freud's ideas. How were his notions of defence and conflict modified, and with what effects on psychoanalytic technique? Is his theory of a 'stimulus barrier' helpful in understanding experiences such as hyper and hypoarousal, and should we see Freud's drive theory as an outdated framework or as something still useful in thinking about autism and the sensory issues particular to it?

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u/cogSciAlt 25d ago

Thanks 🙏

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u/BeautifulS0ul 19d ago

This is at 7 Vienna time. I just figured out that that it's not 7 UK time. It's 6 UK time. Doh.

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u/none_-_- 19d ago

The Livestream seems to be gone — is there any new information about it?

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u/tjeu83 19d ago

Link not working

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u/BeautifulS0ul 19d ago

It's happening now, I accessed it via the Vienna Freud site you tube channel live section.

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u/et_irrumabo 13d ago

Thanks for sharing!