Prof. Liliane Weissberg

Liliane Weissberg is Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Literary Theory,
and has secondary appointments (at the School of Arts and Science) in: English, Art History,
Visual Studies, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Jewish Studies, Religious Studies,
and (in the Weitzman School of Design) in: PhD Program in Architecture.

For the Program in Psychoanalytic Studies, Weissberg offers courses on Sigmund Freud’s
life and work, the history of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic theory, and on trauma and
memory. She has also worked for various museums. At the Slought Gallery at Penn, curated
an exhibit, “The Wolf Man Paints!” (2010), documenting the work of Freud’s patient, Sergei
Pankejeff. She also curated an exhibition for the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, the Museum of
Modern Literature in Marbach, and serves on the board of the German Historical Museum
in Berlin. In 2011, she was a Freud-Fulbright Fellow and spent a semester working in
Freud’s winter garden at the Berggasse 19. In May 2019, Weissberg gave the public Freud
lecture, marking his birthday, in Vienna; she also contributed to the catalog of the new
permanent exhibition (2020) at the Freud Museum Vienna. She held visiting appointments
at universities in the United States, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland; among the honors
for her work are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize of the American Academy, and
the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for her life’s work.

Weissberg edited an anthology on fetishism and feminity, Weiblichkeit als Maskerade.
(Frankfurt/M: S. Fischer Verlag, 1994), and a forthcoming book, All About Father:
Psychoanalysis, the Oedipus Complex, and the Modern Family (New York: Palgrave, 2021).

Among her essay publications in psychoanalytic studies are:

“Repetitions: Returning to Kierkegaard, Freud, and Tieck,” Under Construction: Links for the Site of Literary
Theory. Essays in Honour of Hendrik van Gorp, eds. Dirk De Geest, Ortwin de Graef, Dirk Delabastita,
Koenraad Geldof, Rita Ghesquière, and José Lambert, eds. (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2000), 149-165.

“Exit Dora: Freud’s Patient Takes Leave.” Psychoanalytic Inquiry 25, 1 (2005). Special issue, Freud and Dora:
100 Years Later, eds. Susan Levine and Sidney Pulver, 5-26.

“Was will der Mann? Gedanken zum Briefwechsel von Sigmund Freud und Wilhelm Fließ.” Männlichkeit als
Maskerade. Kulturelle Inszenierungen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, eds. Claudia Benthien and Inge
Stephan (ser.) Literatur—Kultur—Geschichte (Kleine Reihe) 18 (Cologne: Böhlau, 2003), 81-99.

“Freuds Schiller.” Friedrich Schiller and the Path to Modernity, ed. Walter Hinderer (Würzburg: Königshausen
& Neumann, 2006), 421-434.

„’Mut und Möglichkeit’: Sigmund Freud liest Theodor Lipps.” In: Integration und Ausgrenzung. Studien zur
deutsch-jüdischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart, eds. Mark H.
Gelber, Jakob Hessing, and Robert Jütte (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2009), 159-170.

„Ariadne’s Thread: Sigmund Freud, the Textile Industry, and Early Psychoanalysis.” MLN 125 (2010): 661-
681.

„Wiener Tragödien.” Freud und die Antike, eds. Hartmut Böhme, Inge Stephan and Claudia Benthien
(Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010), 217-238.

“Kindheit und Spiel: Winnicott, Freud, Schiller.” Schiller, der Spieler, eds. Peter-André Alt, Marcel Lepper, and
Ulrich Raulff (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013), 280-296.

„Freuds Namen.” Name, Ding: Referenzen, eds. Stefan Börnchen, Georg Mein, and Martin Roussel (Munich:
Wilhelm Fink, 2012), 5-18.

„Freuds Exil.” In: Literatur und Exil. Neue Perspektiven, eds. Doerte Bischoff and Susanne Komfort-Hein
(Berlin: DeGruyter, 2013), 323-336.

“The Parable of the Rings: Freud Reads Lessing.” Nexus 3 (2017): 97-112.

„Sehnsucht nach Goethe. Sigmund Freud und der Sommer 1931.” Deutsche Sprachkultur von Juden und die
Geisteswissenschaften, eds. Stephan Braese and Daniel Weidner (Berlin: Kadmos Verlag, 2015), 201-214.

„Freuds Nachträglichkeit”. In: Nachträglich, grundlegend? Der Kommentar als Denkform in der jüdischen
Moderne, eds. Andreas Kilcher and Liliane Weissberg (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2018), 180-200.

„Konversion: Eine Wortgeschichte. Zur Begriffsbildung bei Sigmund Freud.” Erzählen. Nach Feierabend.
Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte 10 (2014), 87-105.

„Legendärer Ort des Unbewussten. Original-Kissen von Sigmund Freuds Couch in London, das er aus Wien
mitgebracht hat.” In: Der Wert des Originals, eds. Heike Gfrereis and Ulrich Raulff. Marbacher Magazin 148
(2014): 138-144.

Vom Auge zum Ohr und zurück: Die Entstehung der Freudschen Fallstudien.” Medizin. eds. Alexander Hunold
and Grit Schwarzkopf. Non Fiktion. Arsenal der anderen Gattungen XIII 1,2 (2018)/(Hannover: Wehrhahn
Verlag, 2019), 75-94.

“The Promised Land: Freud’s Dream of England.” In: Freud and the Émigré. Austrian Émigrés, Exiles, and the
Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1930s-1970s, eds. Daniela Finzi and Elana Shapira. London: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2020, 35-60.

„‘A Completely Godless Jew.‘“ In: Monika Pessler and Daniela Finzi (Eds.), Freud, Berggasse 19—The Origin of
Psychoanalysis (Berlin: Hatje Crantz, 2020), S. 135-144.