Perry Hughes and Tom DeRose discuss Freud's paper 'Psychopathic Characters on the Stage'.توسط Freud Museum London

Perry Hughes and Tom DeRose discuss Freud's influential paper 'Repression'.توسط Freud Museum London

In this episode, Tom welcomes back Jamie Ruers to the programme, and they discuss the current Freud Museum exhibition Freud and Latin America, which she curated.توسط Freud Museum London

In the episode, Tom is joined by Professor Roman Gerodimos, Professor Candida Yates, and Mark Leipacher of The Faction, who reflect on an event held at the Freud Museum which explored the theme of Shame in Shakespeare's Macbeth.توسط Freud Museum London

In this episode Tom is in conversation with Marina Maniadaki about how Freud’s famous letter to Romain Rolland, entitled a ‘Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis’, inspired her curation of our recent exhibition Tracing Freud on the Acropolis.توسط Freud Museum London

In the final part of series 4 of the Freud in Focus podcast, Tom and Jamie discuss the enduring legacy of Freud’s paper, ‘Delusion and Dream in Jensen’s Gradiva’.توسط Freud Museum London

In this episode of ‘Freud in Focus’, Jamie and Tom continue to discuss Freud’s retelling of Jensen’s Gradiva.توسط Freud Museum London

In this episode of ‘Freud in Focus’, Jamie and Tom continue to discuss Freud’s retelling of Jensen’s Gradiva.توسط Freud Museum London

In this episode of ‘Freud in Focus’, Tom and Jamie will be discussing Freud’s first full-scale analysis of a literary text, the charming and summery, ‘Delusion and Dream in Jensen’s Gradiva’.توسط Freud Museum London

This week Tom discusses Freud’s lifelong fascination with archaeology and the ancient world with Professor Miriam Leonard (UCL), one of the curators of our current exhibition, 'Freud's Antiquity: Object, Idea, Desire'.توسط Freud Museum London

This week Tom and Jamie discuss Freud's ‘Constructions in Analysis’ (1937). This was his final completed paper on psychoanalytic technique, in which he compares psychoanalysis to archaeology. This episode is an exploration of the ideas in our current exhibition, 'Freud's Antiquity: Object, Idea, Desire'.…

To help usher in the autumn season, Tom and Jamie discuss Freud’s beautiful short paper ‘On Transience’ (1916) in the final episode of the Freud in Focus, Summer Shorts series. Producer: Karolina Hellerتوسط Freud Museum London

In this episode of Freud in Focus, Summer Shorts, Jamie and Tom discuss Freud’s 1927 paper entitled ‘Humour’. Producer: Karolina Hellerتوسط Freud Museum London

In our new series of Freud in Focus, entitled Summer Shorts, Jamie and Tom will be discussing some of Freud's shorter, lighter papers. The first text under the microscope is 'Creative Writers and Daydreaming' (1908). Producer: Karolina Hellerتوسط Freud Museum London

In part five of our new podcast series Jamie and Tom discuss the last chapter of Civilisation and its Discontents, in which Freud offers his final thoughts on the place of the individual in society. Producer: Karolina Hellerتوسط Freud Museum London

In part five of our new podcast series Jamie and Tom discuss the last chapter of Civilisation and its Discontents, in which Freud offers his final thoughts on the place of the individual in society. Producer: Karolina Hellerتوسط Freud Museum London

In part four of our new podcast series Jamie and Tom discuss the sixth and seventh chapters of Civilisation and its Discontents, in which Freud recounts the history of instinct theory, and explores the origin of the sense of guilt. Producer: Karolina Hellerتوسط Freud Museum London

In part three of our new podcast series Jamie and Tom discuss the forth and fifth chapters of Civilisation and its Discontents, in which Freud discusses the origins of society, writes two extraordinary footnotes, and introduces a new factor into his exploration of the causes of discontent in civilisation. Producer: Karolina Heller…

In part two of our new podcast series Jamie and Tom discuss the second and third chapters of Civilisation and its Discontents, where Freud extends his critique of religion and discusses the techniques available to help deal with human suffering. Producer: Karolina Hellerتوسط Freud Museum London

In part one of our new podcast series Jamie and Tom discuss the first chapter of Civilisation and its Discontents, looking at Freud’s analysis of the ‘oceanic feeling’, and the famous archaeological metaphor of the mind. Producer: Karolina Hellerتوسط Freud Museum London

To close our Uncanny series, we are bringing you a special bonus episode from our archive. In a live lecture originally delivered at the Freud Museum in January 2020, Dr Aaron Balick looks at deepfakes, artificial intelligence, and social media algorithms as he uncovers 'Why might some forms of technology give us the creeps'. Producer: Karolina Hel…

In this final episode exploring The Uncanny, Tom and Jamie look at the impact Freud's paper had on literature and the arts. Our hosts also reflect upon the Freud Museum's 2019 exhibition The Uncanny: A Centenary. Producer: Karolina Hellerتوسط Freud Museum London

In this episode, Tom and Jamie will look at the third and final Part of Freud's The Uncanny, where Freud concludes by differentiating the uncanny in literature to real-life experiences. Producer: Karolina Hellerتوسط Freud Museum London

In this episode, Tom and Jamie will be looking at part 2 of Freud’s paper The Uncanny, in which Freud delves into the wonderful world of Hoffmann’s ‘The Sandman’ and discusses doubles, hauntings and inexplicable repetitions in his search for the core of the uncanny effect. Producer: Karolina Hellerتوسط Freud Museum London

In the first episode, Tom and Jamie will introduce Freud's 1919 paper The Uncanny. We will look closely at the unusual structure of the first section in this 3-part essay. Producer: Karolina Hellerتوسط Freud Museum London

In the fifth and final instalment of our new podcast series, Tom will be joined by Emilia Raczkowska, the Freud Museum’s Education and Outreach Manager, to discuss how psychoanalysis has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. Producer: Karolina Hellerتوسط Freud Museum London

In this episode, Jamie Ruers is in conversation with the Freud Museum's curator, Bryony Davies. They will discuss the forthcoming exhibition '1920/2020: Freud in Pandemic', which addresses the parallels between Freud's experience with the Spanish Flu and the COVID-19 pandemic today. Producer: Karolina Heller…

In the third episode of our new podcast series, we’ll be looking at the final two chapters of Beyond the Pleasure Principle and tracing the emergence of Freud’s New Dual Instinct Theory, and his introduction of the Death Drive. Producer: Karolina Hellerتوسط Freud Museum London

In the second part of our new podcast series we’ll be diving into the central part of the text, in which Freud discusses the ‘compulsion to repeat’. We’ll also be focussing on the concept of Speculation in Freud’s work, and trace a pathway to the appearance of the new Dual Instinct Theory. Producer: Karolina Heller…

In the first part of our new podcast series, we’ll be exploring the historical context of Freud’s ground-breaking work ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’, and discussing some of the prominent themes arising from the first 2 chapters, including Freud’s famous account of the ‘fort-da’ game. Producer: Karolina Heller…

The Freud Museum London is launching a brand new podcast called ‘Freud in Focus’ which will look in-depth at some of Freud’s key texts in a discussion format. The series will be presented by Tom DeRose and Jamie Ruers. In the first five episodes, we will look at one of Freud’s most influential and controversial texts, Beyond the Pleasure Principle …

The Freud Museum is delighted to welcome Professor Juliet Mitchell to celebrate her latest publication Fratriarchy: The Sibling Trauma and the Law of the Mother (Routledge, 2023). On stage with Juliet Mitchell is Holly Porter, an anthropologist and associate director of the Gender Studies Centre founded by Mitchell in Cambridge University; Rosemary…

In the wake of #MeToo, we have begun to talk more openly about the widespread harm inflicted by men on women. But little has been said about the fact that many of these men are also fathers. Join author Katherine Angel for a discussion on her latest book Daddy Issues with Josh Cohen. Bold, challenging and nuanced, Daddy Issues examines the place of…

In What is Sex?, Alenka Zupančič approaches the question of sexuality from a Lacanian perspective, considering it a properly philosophical problem for psychoanalysis. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, Zupančič argues that sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between ontology and epistemology. Sexuality and knowledge are structured around a fund…

...a disappointment, an ear, and a snail.توسط Freud Museum London

This paper explores Freud and Dalí’s rather different ideas about censorship. Starting with their comically perplexing meeting, it will also look at the myth of the ‘crazy artist’ in the context of Freud’s ideas about the unconscious and narcissism.توسط Freud Museum London

Lisa Appignanesi discusses her new book, Everyday Madness: on Grief, Anger, Loss and Love (September 2018) with Adam Phillips. ‘The small translucent bottle of shampoo outlived him. It was the kind you take home from hotels in distant places. For over a year it had sat on the shower shelf where he had left it. I looked at it every day.” After the d…

Joanna Ryan in discussion with Barry Watt What does psychoanalysis have to say about the emotional landscapes of class, the hidden injuries and disavowed privileges? How does class figure in clinical work and what part does it play in psychotherapeutic trainings? In these times of increasing inequality, Joanna Ryan will discuss aspects of her timel…

In The Not-Two, Lorenzo Chiesa examines the treatment of logic and God in Lacan’s later work. Chiesa draws for the most part from Lacan’s Seminars of the early 1970s, as they revolve around the axiom "There is no sexual relationship." Chiesa provides both a close reading of Lacan’s effort to formalize sexual difference as incompleteness and an asse…

In his latest publication In Writing acclaimed psychoanalyst and writer, Adam Phillips celebrates the art of close reading and asks what it is to defend literature in a world that is increasingly devaluing language in this enjoyable collection of essays on literature. Through an exhilarating series of encounters with – and vivid readings of – write…

Re-reading Freud's 1905 edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality This book presentation is devoted to the newly translated and annotated English edition of Freud’s 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Verso, 2016). Freud’s publication is one of the grounding texts of 20th-century European thinking. In it Freud develops a highly i…

Lacanian psychoanalyst Bruce Fink discusses his latest work, Lacan on Love. Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us fall blindly into its traps and become ensnared time and again. Deliriously mad excitement turns to di…

Starting from the hypothesis that psychosis makes up a structure, with a precise status for the unconscious, Stijn Vanheule explores how, from a Lacanian point of view, the treatment of psychosis is organized. Special attention is paid to the specificity of the psychotic symptom, or elementary phenomenon, and to the way transference characteristica…

Professor Brett Kahr in Conversation with Dan Chambers What actually happens in psychotherapy? And does it really work? Psychotherapy has become a mainstay of our emotional wellbeing, and yet, in spite of its century-long track record, many people still regard “therapy” with a certain suspicion. Is psychotherapy simply a self-indulgent exercise in …

Discussion Only. Artist Cornelia Parker will be in conversation with Psychoanalyst and Author, Darian Leader, discussing her art and its relation to the unconscious. They will talk about transitional objects, avoiding the object on purpose, memory, and violence as a metaphor. Nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997, Cornelia Parker became well known…

Gavin Turk in conversation with Joseph Kosuth, moderated by James Putnam ‘We are asleep. Our life is like a dream. But in our better hours we wake up just enough to realise that we are dreaming.’ - Ludwig Wittgenstein Gavin Turk’s installation and intervention in Freud’s former residence, Wittgenstein’s Dream, investigates the intriguing conceptual…

Understanding the Socio-psychological Roots of Contemporary Right-wing Populism Samir Gandesha One of the key problems of contemporary politics is the presence and growing power of right-wing populist movements throughout the Western world from the US "Tea Party," to Britain's UKIP to Pegida in Germany and Golden Dawn in Greece. This paper poses th…

Panel discussion - Jane Haberlin, Jeanette Winterson and Eleanor LongdenHearing voices has been described as everything from schizophrenic to godlike. Radical psychiatry in the 1960s contested what today are termed 'auditory hallucinations' seeing them as containing what couldn't be said. The psychology researcher Eleanor Longden isn't crazy -- and…

Adam Phillips in conversation with Deborah Levy Unforbidden Pleasures is the dazzling new book from Adam Phillips, author of Missing Out and Going Sane. Adam Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the meanings and importance of the Unforbidden, from the fall of our 'first parents' Adam and Eve to the work of the great twen…

Session 4: The Unconscious and the Body Katerina Fotopoulou - The Embodied Relational UnconsciousThe Freudian Unconscious was closely related to the mental representation of the body, and particularly the satisfaction of its biological needs. Katerina Fotopoulou will talk about 'the embodied relational unconscious', discussing certain classical and…