Sandra Janßen
Position
Senior Research and Teaching Assistant (Maître assistante)
Université de Genève
Switzerland
Profile
Sandra Janßen received her PhD from Université Paris 8 and Freie Universität Berlin, where she has taught comparative literature from 2009-2013. She has been Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in 2011 and currently teaches modern German literature at the University of Geneva. Her research interests include 19th and 20th century German and French literatures and their interrelation with historical psychology. Whereas her doctoral dissertation focuses on theories of imaginative phenomena such as hallucinations and dreams, her most recent research concentrates on a history of subjectivity that also encompasses social and political aspects.
Contact details
Département de langue et de littérature allemandes
Faculté des lettres / UNI-Bastions
Université de Genève
Rue de Candolle 5
CH-1211 Genève 4
Tel: +41 22 379 78 10
E-Mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Homepage: http://www.unige.ch/lettres/alman/enseignants/moderne/Janssen.html
Publication on the dream and related topics
Books
Phantasmen. Imagination in Psychologie und Literatur 1840-1930 (Flaubert, Čechov, Musil), Göttingen, Wallstein 2013.
Articles and chapters in books
„Imagination zwischen Pathologie und Psychologie: Der Diskurs über das Phantasma, 1840-1930“, in: Claudia Olk / Anne-Julia Zwierlein (ed.), Innenwelten vom Mittelalter zur Moderne: Interiorität in Literatur, Bild und Psychologiegeschichte, Trier, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002, pp. 193-210
„Hallucinations factices: Psycho(patho)logie de l’imagination et procédés littéraires dans La Tentation de saint Antoine“, in: Paolo Tortonese (ed.), Image et pathologie au XIXe siècle, Cahiers de littérature française, n° 6, 2008, pp. 43-69
„Von der Dissoziation zum System. Das Konzept des Unbewussten als Abkömmling des Reflexparadigmas in der Theorie Freuds“, in: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 32 (1), 2009, pp. 36-52
„Figures d’une subjectivité négative, 1850-1950“, in: Gisèle Berkman / Caroline Jacot Grapa (ed.), Archéologie du moi, Saint-Denis, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2009, pp. 127-141
„L’inquiétante étrangeté de la physiologie nerveuse: Parasitisme mental, illusionnisme et fantastique chez Maupassant“, in: Jean-Louis Cabanès / Didier Philippot / Paolo Tortonese (ed.), Paradigmes de l’âme. Littérature et aliénisme au XIXe siècle, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2012, pp.195-212