Andreas Mayer

Research Scholar

Dr.

Funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung 2010–12

Residence: March 1, 2007–April 30, 2013

Profile

Andreas Mayer has worked and published on various topics in the history of the human sciences in the modern period, most notably the emergence of psychoanalysis and its related discourses and practices. Currently he is completing a book on the "Science of Walking" in the 19th century.
His major publications include "Mikroskopie der Psyche. Die Anfänge der Psychoanalyse im Hypnose-Labor" (Göttingen, Wallstein, 2002), "Träume nach Freud. Die 'Traumdeutung' und die Geschichte der psychoanalytischen Bewegung" (co-written with Lydia Marinelli, Vienna, Turia + Kant, 2002; 2nd ed. 2009; 2rd ed. 2011; engl. tr. "Dreaming By the Book", 2003; nominated for the Gradiva Prize; French tr. "Rêver avec Freud. L'histoire collective de 'L'Interprétation du rêve'", Paris, Aubier-Flammarion, 2009;  Italian tr., Bollati-Boringhieri, Turin, 2010, Spanish tr. forthcoming), "Kunstmaschinen. Spielräume des Sehens zwischen Wissenschaft und Ästhetik" (co-edited with A. Métraux, Frankfurt/Main, Fischer, 2005).
After studies in Vienna, Paris, and Cambridge, he took his Ph.D. from Bielefeld University in 2001 and then was a postdoctoral fellow at the MPIWG till 2003. In 2004, he was invited by the City of Paris as a guest research fellow. From 2005-2007, he held the position of a Wellcome Research Fellow in the History of Medicine at the University of Cambridge. Over the past years, he has also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the University of Chicago, the University of Konstanz, and the University of Ghent.
In 2009, he organized two large conferences: "Performing Voices - between Embodiment and Mediation" (Rome, American Academy 4-6 Dec, in collaboration with Marty Brody, AAR and Julia Kursell, MPIWG) and "Epistemic Vehicles in the Human Sciences" (Vienna, Heiligenkreuzerhof 23-25 July) in memory of Lydia Marinelli. In the same year, he also edited a volume containing her collected essays ("Tricks der Evidenz. Zur Geschichte psychoanalytischer Medien", Wien, Turia + Kant). A 2010 conference organized in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome (23-24 June) explored the topic "Freud's Rome, Phobia and Phantasy".