Louis Rose

Professor of Modern European History, Otterbein University; Editor, American Imago

Louis Rose is Professor of Modern European History at Otterbein University in Ohio, a member of the Trustees of the Sigmund Freud Archives, Library of Congress, and the Editor of American Imago.

His book, The Freudian Calling: Early Viennese Psychoanalysis and the Pursuit of Cultural Science (Wayne State University, 1998) received the 1999 Austrian Cultural Institute Prize for Best Book in Austrian Studies. He is the author of The Survival of Images: Art Historians, Psychoanalysts, and the Ancients (Wayne State University, 2001).

He received his B.A. in History from Clark University and his Ph.D. in History from Princeton University, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Vienna.

The Fall 2013 issue of American Imago builds upon themes in the study of mind, brain, and culture from Eric R. Kandel’s The Age of Insight, and is titled Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, and European Modernism.

Participant In:

Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 2

Sunday, October 13th
9:30 - 4:15PM

Past Event

This two-day symposium explores Warburg’s ideas and their adumbrations, e.g., his preoccupations with – and intuitions about – memory, both in relation to different forms of artistic creation and in anticipation of concepts related to neuroplasticity and neuroesthetics; the significance and fluency of the image – its elliptical and metaphoric functions – and of affect… read more »