Peter L. Rudnytsky
Professor
Peter L. Rudnytsky received his undergraduate degrees from Columbia and Cambridge, and his PhD from Yale. He joined the University of Florida faculty in 1992. He has been a Mellon Faculty Fellow at Harvard in 1983-84, a Fulbright Western Europe Regional Research Scholar in 1988-89, an Eccles Fellow at the University of Utah Humanities Center in 1993-94, and a Fulbright/Freud Society Scholar of Psychoanalysis in Vienna in 2004. In 2008-09, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at Emory University.
Trained as a Renaissance scholar, Professor Rudnytsky’s current areas of specialization include Freud, the history and theory of psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic approaches to literature. He is the author of Freud and Oedipus (Columbia, 1987); The Psychoanalytic Vocation: Rank, Winnicott, and the Legacy of Freud (Yale, 1991); Psychoanalytic Conversations: Interviews with Clinicians, Commentators, and Critics (Analytic, 2000), and Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck (Cornell, 2002). Among his edited and co-edited books are Transitional Objects and Potential Spaces: Literary Uses of D. W. Winnicott (Columbia, 1993), Ferenczi’s Turn in Psychoanalysis (NYU, 1993), Psychoanalyses/Feminisms (SUNY, 2000), with Andrew M. Gordon, and Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine, with Rita Charon (SUNY, 2008). The latter two volumes grew out of conferences organized by Professor Rudnytsky at UF in 1994 and 2004, respectively.
In 2009, Professor Rudnytsky begins his ninth year as Editor of American Imago, the leading scholarly journal of psychoanalysis, founded in 1939 by Sigmund Freud and Hanns Sachs and published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. With Brett Kahr, he is launching a new book series on the history of psychoanalysis to be published by Karnac in London.
Professor Rudnytsky is an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association as well as a Corresponding Member of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. In 2001, he received the Local Educators’ Award from the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education; and in 2003, he received the Gradiva Award for Reading Psychoanalysis. Professor Rudnytsky is co-chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Psychoanalysis and the Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association as well as co-chair of the International Council of Editors of Psychoanalytic Journals.
Committed both personally and professionally to integrating the academic and clinical worlds of psychoanalysis, Professor Rudnytsky received an MSW from Florida State University in 2008 and is currently a Registered Clinical Social Work Intern in the State of Florida. He is likewise a candidate at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4366
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 287
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <plr@ufl.edu>