Leopold Nosek


	Leopold Nosek is a psychiatrist, graduated from the University of São Paulo’s Medical School, and psychoanalyst. He was director of the Psychoanalytic Federation of Latin America, president of the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of São Paulo and editor of International Psychoanalysis, the newsletter of the International Psychoanalytical Association. In 2014, he received the Sigourney Award, given out annually by the Mary S. Sigourney Award Trust to professionals or organizations that made significant contributions to clinical psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic research. According to this foundation, Nosek is “a Renaissance man of psychoanalysis, who was awarded for his outstanding institutional and clinical work, and for his application of psychoanalysis to culture, politics and art.” Nosek organized the exhibition “Freud: Conflict and Culture” (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 2000), was co-curator of the exhibition “Pain, Form, Beauty” (Estação Pinacoteca, 2005), curator of the “Terror and Representation” film cycle (Cinemateca Brasileira, 2005) and coordinator of the cycle “Cinema and Psychoanalysis: Latin America without Borders” (Cinemateca Brasileira, 2011).

Leopold Nosek is a psychiatrist, graduated from the University of São Paulo’s Medical School, and psychoanalyst. He was director of the Psychoanalytic Federation of Latin America, president of the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of São Paulo and editor of International Psychoanalysis, the newsletter of the International Psychoanalytical Association. In 2014, he received the Sigourney Award, given out annually by the Mary S. Sigourney Award Trust to professionals or organizations that made significant contributions to clinical psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic research. According to this foundation, Nosek is “a Renaissance man of psychoanalysis, who was awarded for his outstanding institutional and clinical work, and for his application of psychoanalysis to culture, politics and art.” Nosek organized the exhibition “Freud: Conflict and Culture” (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 2000), was co-curator of the exhibition “Pain, Form, Beauty” (Estação Pinacoteca, 2005), curator of the “Terror and Representation” film cycle (Cinemateca Brasileira, 2005) and coordinator of the cycle “Cinema and Psychoanalysis: Latin America without Borders” (Cinemateca Brasileira, 2011).