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[Faculty]
[Affiliated Faculty]
[Staff & Advisors] [Emeriti]
 The genealogy of media (of both occult mediums and media
technologies), Freud, psychoanalytic theories, and the overlaps (for
example in Frankfurt school thought as in deconstruction) between psychoanalysis
and various other critical discourses. Author of Aberrations of Mourning
(1988), Der unbetrauerbare Tod (1990), The Case of California
(1991), and The Vampire Lectures (1999), and editor of Looking
After Nietzsche (1990), Gottfried Keller's Jugenddramen (1990),
and Acting Out in Groups (1999). In Spring 2002, his three-volume study,
Nazi Psychoanalysis will be published.
Professor Rickels is both a theorist and psychotherapist,
and, switching to the art world setting, regular contributor to Artforum,
Art + Text, and Flash Art. He has taught at Art Center College of Design, Otis College of Art and
Design, Umeå University and Universität Düsseldorf. Recent graduate courses included seminars on Goethe, the Frankfurt School,
and Hegel.
Professor Rickels' personal site is http://www.hydra.umn.edu/twd/
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