Matthew Von Unwerth: Freud, Rilke & The Poetry of Psychoanalysis

The Friends of the Newman Library and the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health (PCMH) Library Advisory Committee present the sixth Annual Evening In The Oak Room.

The evening's featured speaker, Matthew Von Unwerth, Director of the Brill Library of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and a candidate in psychoanalytic training, reads from his recent book "Freud's Requiem: Mourning, Memory, and The Invisible History of a Summer Walk" . Mr. Unwerth explores Freud's provocative ideas on the connections between creativity and mortality in this elegant literary musing conducted through a reading of Freud's argument about creativity with poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

The reading is followed by a conversation conducted by Jennifer Humphry.

Ona Lindquist, Chair, Community Relations, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health introduces the event. The event takes place on November 3, 2006 in Newman Library's Oak Room.