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11/04/2022 | Campus-Meldung

Symposium "Psychoanalysis and Aging

The baby boomers are getting on in years. A social group that has experienced itself throughout life as "the many" is on the threshold of old age. What problems, conflicts and challenges are associated with this stage of life? In a symposium that will take place both "live" and online, psychoanalysts and social scientists will approach the open questions and search for answers. It will take place on 2 and 3.12.22 in the Gießhaus and is entitled "Aging baby boomers - between patchwork, diversity and tradition".

Prof. Dr. Heinz Bude. — Prof. Dr. Heinz Bude will speak at the symposium.

Heinz Bude, Institute for Sociology at the University of Kassel, speaks of the last post-war generation and its first balance sheets. The changes in long-term relationships, higher divorce rates and greater diversity in the organization of relationships and working life contrast with a strange adherence to cherished styles and traditions. Male identity concepts are subject to change, but remain traditionally entrenched even in the context of family care work; socio-historical processes such as the fall of the Berlin Wall leave concrete traces in life concepts and realities. Although the generational relationship to the younger generation seems to be less conflictual than in the previous generation, considerable fault lines emerge in the current problems of climate change, changing attitudes towards career and work. The lectures will be discussed in detail in the plenum of the Gießhaus in Mönchebergstraße and "on the net".

The event is open to the public, but there is a fee. Register by Nov. 18 at symposium[at]uni-kassel[dot]de.

Further information: https://psychoanalyse-und-altern.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Finaler_Flyer_34._Symposium_Psychoanalyse_und_Altern_2022.pdf