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Aleksandra Wagner


          










Instructor, Sociology
Division: 
The New School for General Studies
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Aleksandra Wagner received her BA in Musicology and BA in Literature
and Philosophy from the University of Sarajevo. She completed
psychoanalytic training at the National Psychological Association for
Psychoanalysis in New York City and works in private practice. Her
doctoral work at the CUNY Graduate Center is on American Ego Psychology
as a case study in the sociology of knowledge. She is currently a
Sociology Instructor in the Department of Social Sciences, Bachelor’s
Program in Liberal Arts, The New School for General Studies. In 2005 –
2006, she was awarded the Faculty Development Grant for the
project-idea, “CityLink,” which was developed with participation from
the entire “The City” Area of Study team. A member of the Editorial
Board of The Psychoanalytic Review and an Editorial Reader for The
International Forum for Psychoanalysis, Aleksandra writes the column
“Borderline” for Covjek I Prostor, Journal for Architecture and
Urbanism, Zagreb, Croatia.
Courses:
Psychoanalysis: An Urban Experience 
Urban Spaces: On, Under and Above
Theories of Modernity
Confronting Objectivity
Social Dimensions of Shame
Sociology of Forgiveness
Personal Statement: 
Of all the varied New School contexts that engage views on pedagogy and
scholarship, joyous collegiality and personal interests, “The City”
Area of Study has been the most productive for me. Its growth and
development, including the making of this very website, has been an
exercise in shifting the boundaries of what it means to think and work
with others, while simultaneously respecting and interrogating
disciplinary practices. One is seldom asked to help co-construct an
environment in which one would want not only to teach, but to study. 
I
consider my entry into the realm of urban sociology—as exemplified in
the course “Psychoanalysis: An Urban Experience”—to be a lasting
pursuit. Spatial configurations which we are invited or forced to
inhabit; which we produce ourselves and are, in turn, produced by them;
through which we move while experiencing deep attachments, conflicts,
alienation, or a sense of transience—are an immense resource for
research and reflection. This sensibility I have found over and over
again at my principal urban site: The New School classroom.
Academic Record
Research Interests: 
History of psychoanalysis; psychoanalysis as a discourse of modernity;
intellectual migrations; autobiography; affective turn in sociology
 
Publications: 
Aleksandra Wagner | List of Publications

“Not a Day Without a Line” Interview with architect Steven Holl. Covjek I Prostor 5/6: 46 – 55. (PDF)

Review of Architecture of Happiness, by Alain de Botton. Pantheon Books, 2006. Covjek I Prostor 5/6: 64 – 65. (PDF)

“Against the Wall” Interview with Michael Sorkin. Covjek I Prostor 7/8: 39 – 47. (PDF)

“A Territory of the Uncanny” Interview with Anthony Vidler. Covjek I Prostor 11/12: 66 – 71. (PDF)
“A Room in the Passage”  Covjek I Prostor, 9/10: 34 – 43. (PDF)
Contact Details
Email: 
wagnera1@newschool.edu