List of abstracts for the IV International HCA conference - Hans Christian Andersen between children's literature and adult literature

Andersen, Hans Christian;   Workshop I   Hans Christian Andersen as a Tourist?
Askgaard, Ejnar; M.A.   Workshop V   On Andersen's 'The Snow Queen'
Baran, Zbigniew; ph.d.   Workshop II   Encyclopaedic Portraits of HCA
Bliudzius, Arunas; Sc.secr.   Workshop III   Publishing of H.C.Andersen's Tales in Lithuanian and Latvian
Christensen, Erik M.;   Plenary lecture 1   The Queen and I
Davidsen, Mogens;   Workshop IV   'Childishness' as Poetic Strategy
Dumitrescu, Anca; prof.dr.   Workshop III   H.C. Andersen and His First Romanian Translators
Hees, Annelies van;   Workshop I   HCA was no hypochondriac: he was ill
Isaeva, Elisaveta; Professor   Workshop II   Evgeny Shwartz and H. C. Andersen
Jensen, Lars Bo; Ph.D-studerende   Workshop I   Children and tunings in Hans Christian Andersen's travel books
Kofoed, Lone Funch; cand.mag.   Workshop I   Shadow Pictures - Truth or tale
Korovin, Andrey V.; Ph.D, Associate professor   Plenary lecture 7   Chronotope of Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories
Kuhn, Hans;   Plenary lecture 2   Andersen's poems for and about children.
Lotz, Martin; Psychiatrist, Psychoanaly   Plenary lecture 8
The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep in the light of psychoanalytic thinking
The story of the Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep has many references to Andersens biography. Why did he write the story and what did it mean to him? As I am going to draw upon his autobiographies, his letters and his diary, I am moving outside the sphere of literary hermeneutics. My interest as a psychoanalyst is to make an approach to the understanding of the psychology of the author.
I shall touch upon the recent redefining of his sexuality by some biographers. The idea is to settle with simplistic expositions of Andersen as either homosexual or heterosexual, and to give a sketch of him as a more complicated, ambiguous man. In Andersen's psychology there was a field of conflicts between both sexual and aggressive impulses and counterworking inhibiting and censuring functions. There is reason to emphasise that also specifically repressed narcissistic vulnerability and aggressive sedition were influential factors. These tensions produced an ever present amount of pathological anxiety accompanied by a number of symptoms. However, in the best of his works he was successfully sublimating his personal conflicts into universally valid art.
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Lundskær-Nielsen, Tom; Dr., Senior Lecturer   Workshop IV   Hans Christian Andersen is famous for using language aimed at children
Malmkjær, Kirsten; Prof.   Plenary lecture 4   The Language that Stayed at Home: Hans Christian Andersen's way with words.
Massengale, James;   Workshop IV   Little Gerda's Moratoria
Mhlakaza, Vincent A.;   Workshop IV   Hans Christian Andersen in Southern Africa
Mikkelsen, Cynthia Mikaela; postgraduate   Workshop V   The element of fear in H.C. Andersen's fairytales
Minovska- Devedzhieva, Rossitsa; dir.   Workshop II   Hans Christian Andersen in Puppet Theatre
Mylius, Johan de; Docent, dr. phil.   Plenary lecture 3   The Child and Death
Müürsepp, Mare; PhD   Workshop III   H. C. Andersen fairy tales for Estonian readers
Pedersen, Viggo Hjørnager; Lektor, dr. phil.   Workshop III   'Out in the world, thoughts come'
Reid-Walsh, Jacqui; lecturer   Workshop II   Everything in the picture book was alive
Scanavino, Carola;   Plenary lecture 0   Caught between heaven and hell: the two faces of H. C. Andersen
Sezer, Sarap; MA   Workshop III   Turkish Translations of Andersen's Fairy Tales
Stecher-Hansen, Marianne; Associate Professor, Grad   Plenary lecture 5   From Romantic to Modernist Metatexts: Commemorating Andersen and the Self-Referential Text
Weinreich, Torben; professor   Workshop IV   Hans Christian Andersen - writing for children?
Øster, Anette; forskningsassistent   Workshop III   Andersen in translation