GRK 249:  History of Art, Psychology, Psychoanalysis

• Subject Area: Art History, Music, Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: from 1996 to 2004
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 271237

Subject of the research training group is the interdisciplinary research on the psychic conditions of the making and of the effect of works on art in their historic modifications. A main focus is directed to the historic research of emotions.The research training group aims at reviving the collaboration between psychology, psycho-analysis and history of art which has been neglected in Germany for a very long time. Here, it resumes also analytic positions of the history of art and the language studies since 1920 as they can be found in the works of Ernst Kris, an art historian and psycho-analyst from Vienna who emigrated to the USA in 1932. A special interest is also dedicated to the psycho-analystic works dealing with with aesthetics and fine art, first of all to the writings of Sigmund Freud.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Thomas Kirchner
• Participating Researchers: Falk Berger; Professorin Dr. Daniela Bohde; Professor Dr. Martin Büchsel; Professor Dr. Henry Keazor; Professor Dr. Burkhardt Lindner (†); Professor Dr. Alessandro Nova; Professor Dr. Ulrich Oevermann (†); Professorin Dr. Regine Prange; Professor Dr. Klaus Reichert; Professor Dr. Raimund Rütten; Professorin Dr. Luise Schorn-Schütte