Podcast on the International Workshop | Karl Bühler and the Vienna Psychological Institute or The Underestimated Importance of the Local
On 4 and 5 February 2021, an international workshop on Karl Bühler and the history of the Vienna Psychological Institute took place at the Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna, led by Janette Friedrich and Gerhard Benetka.
The workshop centred on Karl Bühler’s work at the Psychological Institute of the University of Vienna from 1922 to 1938, focusing on the relationship between his work and the scientific community. Usually, the thinking of a researcher is inferred from his works, books and articles form the main source of reception and are at the centre of both the personal and the history of ideas, problems and concepts in the sciences. The workshop focussed on another, in our opinion equally important but often neglected source of scientific thought, which could be described as “science and university life” or, in short, everyday science.
This is primarily about local activities: courses in which ideas are tried out and accentuated; research programmes, including those that were never realised; conference and association activities; research colloquia; the supervision of doctoral theses; collaboration with colleagues from one’s own or other faculties. The problem with these sources is that they have to be searched for and reconstructed in painstaking detail, and in some cases also indirectly catalogued.
Overview of speakers
Overview of speakers
Friedrich, Janette (SFU)
The Relationship between the Work and the Science Industry. Some reflections on the concept of the local in the history of science
Lethen, Tim (University of Helsinki)
The history of a rapprochement: Kurt Gödel and the Institute of Psychology
Benetka, Gerhard (SFU)
The Vienna Institute and psychoanalysis
Damböck, Christian (Vienna Circle Institute, University of Vienna)
Karl Bühler and the Vienna Circle
Pircher, Josef (Vienna Circle Institute, University of Vienna)
Karl Bühler’s Lectures on Educational Psychology. A classification in terms of the history and theory of science
Löffler, Petra (University of Oldenburg)
Milieu of the film. On the significance of the environment for Karl Bühler and the Viennese school of psychology
Czwik, Maria (Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna)
Research on film at the Institute of Psychology in the 1930s
Knobloch, Clemens (University of Siegen)
The unity of “expression” and “control” and some of its late consequences (Fritz Heider and Gustav Ichheiser)
Dassonneville, Gautier (Université de Lille-3 / Université de Liège)
“Pensée sans images” (Imageless thought) and “Images de pensée” (Thought-Images): Jean-Paul Sartre, reader of Karl Bühler and Auguste Flach
Vasold, Georg (Institute for Art History, University of Vienna)
“His influence on all of us was very significant” (E. Gombrich).
Highlights on the reception of Karl Bühler by the Viennese School of Art History.
Audio recording
Audio recording
Podcast_Workshop-Karl_Bühler_Feb.2021 (mp3)
Conference proceedings:
Volume 1 | Karl Bühler and the Vienna Psychological Institute – Documents and Findings
Volume 2 | Karl Bühler and the Vienna Psychological Institute or the Significance of the Local
Further information:
Karl Bühler Digital: http://karlbuehler.org
Contact: Janette.friedrich@sfu.ac.at; gerhard.benetka@sfu.ac.at