About
Jenny Willner is a member of the Department for Comparative Literature (AVL) at LMU Munich. Currently she is working on the project “Neurosis and Evolution. Developmentary Narratives Between Psychoanalysis, Biology, and Literature”. The book-length study (Habilitation) reconstructs the fragments of a psychoanalytical counter-narrative to the politically highly influential monist understanding of evolution. Both Freud and the Hungarian psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi tend to think of evolution as driven by a structurally neurotic dynamic, that is, by the tension between regressive drives and defense mechanisms. Education
Jenny Willner received her PhD in Comparative Literature at the Peter Szondi-Institute, FU Berlin, in 2012. The book version of the dissertation, “Wortgewalt. Peter Weiss und die deutsche Sprache”, was published at Konstanz University Press in 2014. She holds a Master’s degree in German literature (NdL) and Philosophy from Freie Universität Berlin. Upcoming Talks and Conferences
“Catastrophe Theory. On the Political Relevance of Ferenczian ‘Bioanalysis'”. Paper presentation at the 11th Meeting of the International Society of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy: The Truths of Psychoanalysis. Stockholm 2.-4. May 2019
