Tour at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Presented by Diane O’Donoghue

Event Price: $40 for CPC/HP members and nonmember students, and $75 for nonmembers who are not students.

Attendance: This is an in-person only event

Audience: This is a program for Mental Health Professionals

NOTE: Pre-registration is encouraged. Walk-in registration is available but only cash and check payments will be accepted.

Course Description:

Sigmund Freud’s widely read The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) made a number of bold claims about the meaning and mechanics of a phenomenon—dreaming— that was at that time widely dismissed in Eurocentric traditions. One of the best-known of his insights involved the notions of the manifest and latent, with the imagery we recall from sleep (“manifest content”) as masking less accessible “latent meaning.” This latter aspect of psychical functioning often defied conventions of representation, of “picturing,” as Freud would have known it. This gallery presentation will consider Chinese and Japanese painting as offering ways to consider different notions of surface and depth, as both visual and psychological experiences.

Diane O'Donoghue is a visual and cultural historian who directs the Program for Public Humanities at the Jonathan M. Tisch College for Civic Life at Tufts University, USA, where she is also the Senior Fellow for the Humanities and has served as chair of the University’s Department of Visual and Critical Studies. She is a scholar member on the faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and on the editorial board of American Imago. She has received the CORST Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Sigmund Freud/Fulbright Scholar for Psychoanalysis award at the University of Vienna and the Freud Museum, and an Erikson Scholar fellowship.