Sophia Roxane Rohwetter
The psychoanalytical topography of nocturnal dreamscapes, which Freud first presented in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), lays out a complex way of decoding the “night side“ of the human being – repressed desires and experiences of the unconscious that appear in dreams, veiled in nocturnal garments, only to disappear again in the morning. The psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams is, as Elisabeth Bronfen says, an excavation that clears away layers of psychic material to bring clandestine knowledge which has been hidden in the dark depths of the unconscious into the light of analytic explanation. Numerous feminists have pointed out that this psychoanalytic light shines patriarchally and is structured by narcissistic fantasies of masculinity that manifest themselves in Oedipal constellations: incest desires, castration anxiety, patricides.
The poetic-visual collage The Hidden Side of the Moon: Fragments of A Feminist Dream Interpretation reflects then on the possibilities of a feminist interpretation of dreams and proposes a new language of dream analysis, one drawn from feminist psychoanalysis, poetry, visual art, and mythology. Rather than illuminating the strange darkness of the unconscious with the light of the mind, The Hidden Side of the Moon thinks with and through the night side of human consciousness and follows the dreams’ navel; the passage where the dream reaches down into the unknown. In various dreams and interludes, the fragments reclaim dream analysis as a method for collective feminist dreaming, writing, and unconsciousness raising.
First picture in the gallery: Remedios Varo (1960). Mujer saliendo del psicoanalista. Oil on canvas, 71 x 41 cm. Museo de Arte Moderno, Ciudad de México.
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The visual collage can be viewed for the duration of the festival.
Langauge: English
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Nocturnal Unrest ist eine Kooperation des nOu-Kollektivs und Ladiez e.V. Kulturelle und Politische Bildung für Frauen, des Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, der feministische philosoph_innen Frankfurt und dem Hafen 2 Offenbach.
Gefördert durch Fonds Soziokultur im Rahmen des Programms Neustart Kultur der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, das Goethe Institut, das Hessische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, die Hessische Theaterakademie, Frauenreferat und Stabsstelle Inklusion der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, dem QSL Fonds und dem AStA der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main sowie durch die Crespo Foundation.
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Biografie
Sophia Roxane Rohwetter is a writer working in academic research, poetry, art-writing, and image-making. She has studied writing, fine arts, and cultural and critical studies in Lüneburg, Zurich, Vermont, and Vienna. She is interested in the literary and visual cultures of (anti-)psychiatry, the history and philosophy of madness, psychoanalysis, and experimental feminist writing. Her work has appeared in magazines, art spaces, and on the internet. You can find some of her writing here: https://linktr.ee/roxyro95. She lives and works in Vienna and Zurich.