Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts

An experiential audio guide accompanying Senon Williams' 'Pleased Beasts'.

 

An experiential audio guide accompanying Senon Williams' 'Pleased Beasts'.

 

An experiential audio guide accompanying Senon Williams' 'Pleased Beasts'.

 

An experiential audio guide accompanying Senon Williams' 'Pleased Beasts'.

 

Audio guide for the Exhibition Room at Freud Museum London, Sigmund Freud's final home. Curator Bryony Davies discusses our current exhibition, 40 Objects, 40 Years. This exhibition is open from 19 August 2026 until 14 February 2027.

Ahead of a special in-house theatre workshop on 3 July, Tom is joined by Candida Yates, Mark Leipacher, Roman Gerodimos and Eva Makri to explore Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare’s greatest play, and one that held particular significance for Freud.

You can learn more and book a ticket for 'Freud and Hamlet: Acoustic Encounters' here 

For this episode, Tom is joined by Mark Solms to discuss his latest publication ‘The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing’.

Audio guide for the landing at Freud Museum London, Sigmund Freud's final home, with narration by Museum research manager, Tom Derose.

Audio guide for the study at Freud Museum London, Sigmund Freud's final home, with narration by Museum curator, Bryony Davies.

Audio guide for the Hall at Freud Museum London, Sigmund Freud's final home, with narration by Museum research manager, Tom Derose.

Audio guide for the dining room at Freud Museum London, Sigmund Freud's final home, with narration by Museum director, Anna Jobson.

Audio guide for the Exhibition Room at Freud Museum London, Sigmund Freud's final home. Curator Vanessa Boni discusses the Museum's current exhibition, Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal.

In this episode, Tom is in conversation with artist Cathie Pilkington about her current exhibition Housekeeper at the Freud Museum.

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

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

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.

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. 

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.

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’.

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

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

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’.

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'.

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 Heller

In this episode of Freud in Focus, Summer Shorts, Jamie and Tom discuss Freud’s 1927 paper entitled ‘Humour’. 

Producer: Karolina Heller

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 Heller

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 Heller

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 Heller

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 Heller

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 Heller

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 Heller

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 Heller

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 Heller

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 Heller

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 Heller

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 Heller

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 Heller

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 Heller

 

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 which was published in 1920. Starting with close readings of the text itself, we will then go on to think about its relevance for us today in the 21st-century.

The first episode will be aired Wednesday, 17th February 2021 and a new episode will be released every other Wednesday.

 

Producer: Karolina Heller

 

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 Davies, a Fellow and Training analyst of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and founder member, Manuel Batsch , with a PhD from Juliet’s programme at UCL and now completing his analytic training at the Institute of Psychoanalysis. All four speakers give brief talks then open it to discussion with the audience.

The event was hosted and chaired by Dr Giuseppe Albano, Director of the Freud Museum.

This event took place at the Freud Museum London on 4 October 2023.

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 fathers in contemporary culture and asks how the mixture of love and hatred we feel towards our fathers can be turned into a relationship that is generative rather than destructive. If we are to effectively dismantle patriarchy, it is vital that fathers are kept on the hook.

“A timely, necessary work from one of our most vital thinkers. Moving with ease across psychoanalysis, popular culture and literary criticism, weaponising the thought of Woolf, Winnicott and Solanas, Daddy Issues flips the familial script and takes aim at all our Daddies: domestic, cultural, patriarchal, even presidential. The result is a wincingly perceptive, deeply engaged book, one that takes us into the dark heart of a cultural fixation, then shows us, with deep care and empathy, the way back out.”—Sam Byers, author of PERFIDIOUS ALBION

Katherine Angel is the author of Unmastered, A Book on Desire Most Difficult to Tell (Penguin, FSG). Katherine has a PhD in the history of sexuality and psychiatry from the University of Cambridge, and teaches creative and critical writing at Birkbeck, University of London.

Josh Cohen is a psychoanalyst in private practice, and Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of many books, including How to Read Freud (2005), The Private Life (2013) and, most recently, Not Working (2019).

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 fundamental negativity, which unites them at the point of the unconscious. The unconscious (as linked to sexuality) is the concept of an inherent link between being and knowledge in their very negativity.

About the author

Alenka Zupančič is a Slovene philosopher and social theorist. She works as research advisor at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Center of the Slovene Academy of Sciences. She is also professor at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, and at the Graduate School ZRC SAZU (Ljubljana). She is the author of numerous articles and books on psychoanalysis and philosophy, including Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan; The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two; Why Psychoanalysis: Three Interventions; The Odd One In: On Comedy; and, most recently, What is Sex?

...a disappointment, an ear, and a snail.

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.