Lydia Marinelli

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Lydia Marinelli
Born(1965-07-15)15 July 1965
Matrei in Osttirol, Austria
Died8 September 2008(2008-09-08) (aged 43)
Vienna, Austria
Alma mater University of Vienna
Occupation(s) Historian
Editor
Author
Curator of the Sigmund Freud Museum
ParentAndrä & Gretl Marinelli

Lydia Marinelli (15 July 1965 - 8 September 2008) was an Austrian historian, editor, academic author and curator. She also displayed originality and flair as an exhibition organiser. Her speciality was the history of psychoanalysis. [1] [2] [3] [4] The most public aspect of her career involved her work as curator of the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. [5]

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Lydia Marinelli died young. Her suicide was followed by heartfelt tributes from fellow scholars. "Her death", wrote Michael Hagner "... at the age of just forty-three has robbed us of one of the most original humanities scholars ("Geisteswissenschaftlerinnen") of her generation". [6] [lower-alpha 1]

Life

Lydia Marinelli was born at Matrei, a relatively isolated little town north of Lienz, high in the mountains of East Tyrol. [2] There were at least four siblings. [3] She studied History, Literature and Philosophy at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1990. [2] In 1992 she took a research fellowship with the Sigmund Freud Society, [2] [7] later becoming a curator at the foundation's Sigmund Freud Museum at Berggasse 19. [4] Marinelli received her doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1999 for a dissertation entitled "Psyches Kanon – Zur Publikationsgeschichte der Psychoanalyse rund um den Internationalen Psychoanalytischen Verlag", concerning the publications on psychoanalysis produced by the highly influential so-called "International Psychoanalytic Publishing House" which operated in Vienna between 1919 and 1938. [2] [8] It was characteristic that Marinelli combined her work on the dissertation with a small (and very well reviewed) exhibition on the same themes which she was preparing for the Freud Museum. [2] The dissertation subsequently provided a basis for several works adapted and published by colleagues after her death. [9]

In 2003/04 Marinelli became "Director of the Research Division" ("wissenschaftliche Leiterin") at the Sigmund Freud Foundation, retaining the post for the rest of her life. [2] [8]

Although the focus of her professional career was on Vienna, Lydia Marinelli was an enthusiastic networker and communicator, notably when it came to encouraging a less polarised and ossified approach to the study of Sigmund Freud. She was an academic researcher at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. In 2008, shortly before her death, she also became a "visiting scholar" and stipendiate at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. [2] [10] She authored a number of papers and articles, sometimes one her own and sometimes jointly with colleagues. Topics to which she repeatedly returned included the History and Theory of Psychology, Dreams and Sigmund Freud. She was also constantly fascinated by with continual changes in the history of media treatment of psychology and related subjects. Her written contributions often coincided with exhibitions that she staged, generally at the Sigmund Freud Museum. [8] [11] She also taught as an outside lecturer at the University of Vienna. [2]

Exhibitions

Lydia Marinelli became known for the imaginative and thought provoking exhibitions that she staged at the Sigmund Freud Museum. Many were specialist, tightly targeted and low-key. At least four of her more substantial exhibitions at the museum attracted wider notice, however:

Notes

  1. ↑ "Ihr Tod Anfang dieser Woche im Alter von nur dreiundvierzig Jahren beraubt uns einer der originellsten Geisteswissenschaftlerinnen ihrer Generation". [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Thomas Macho (21 January 2010). "Lydia Marinelli: Schriften zur Geschichte der Psychoanalyse". Was sich mit einem Trick der Evidenz von Sigmund Freuds Mütze lernen lässt. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Andreas Mayer [in German]. "In Memoriam: Lydia Marinelli (1965–2008)" (PDF). The Historian of the Freud Museum: Lydia Marinelli. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Frau Dr. Marinelli Lydia: Friedhof Matrei in Osttirol, † 08.09.2008". Kondolenzbuch (55 Beiträge). Trauerhilfe. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  4. 1 2 Rudolf Vierhaus (3 May 2011). Marinelli, Lydia. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 51–52. ISBN   978-3-11-097777-6.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. ↑ Peter Nömaier, Monika Pessler & Daniela Finzi i.A. Sigmund Freud Museum. "In Remembrance of Lydia Marinelli 1965-2008" . Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  6. 1 2 Michael Hagner [in German] (September 2008). "Die Seele Freuds" (PDF). Zum Tod der Historikerin Lydia Marinelli. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  7. ↑ "Dr. Lydia Marinelli". Leitung Wissenschaft. Sigmund Freud Foundation (Freud Museum), Vienna. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  8. 1 2 3 "Hommage an Lydia Marinelli". Sigmund-Freud-Gesellschaft. Archived from the original on 12 April 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  9. 1 2 Elke Flatau (18 November 2014). Methodisches Vorgehen und Auswahl der Fallbeispiele: Forschungsbericht Freud. Springer-Verlag. pp. 46–54, 49, 51. ISBN   978-3-658-08141-6.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  10. ↑ "Mag. Dr. Lydia Marinelli" (PDF). Wissenschaftliche Leiterin der Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung. Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  11. ↑ "Psychoanalytisches Wissen: Hg. von Lydia Marinelli". Verlag Turia + Kant, Wien. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  12. ↑ ""Meine... alten und dreckigen Götter", Aus Sigmund Freuds Sammlung". ine Ausstellung des Sigmund Freud-Museums Wien in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Freud Museum London und der Arbeitsgruppe Archäologische Sammlung des Instituts für Klassische Archäologie der Universität Wien, 18.11.1998 - 17.2.1999. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  13. ↑ "Freuds verschwundene Nachbarn, Sigmund Freud-Museum Wien: 26.3. - 28.9.2003". Sigmund Freud Museum . Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  14. ↑ "Die Couch. Vom Denken im Liegen, Sigmund Freud Museum: 5. Mai 2006 - 5. November 2006". Sigmund Freud Museum . Retrieved 14 January 2020.
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