Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts

ANALYTICAL SPACES - Part 4

Architecture, Art and Psychoanalysis.  A  four part podcast recorded by Paul Mitchell at the Anna Freud Centre on Saturday 14th July 2012. This conference brought together practitioners and theorists from different fields to think about the emotional experience of architecture and architectural spaces. In home, theatre, church, museum, or transformations of space in contemporary art, architecture and mental space interact in ways that indicate the role of  unconscious process in the built environment. Part 4: The Homes of Childhood : Spaces of Love, Dread, and Play Salman Akhtar ABSTRACT The emotional biography of our childhood homes goes beyond the architectural envelopes they provide for our mentalized and un-mentalized erotic, hostile, tender, civic, and spiritual aspirations. Internalized, their corridors, closets, and cloisters function as life-long psychic retreats and springboards for mental rejuvenation. Driven by naive hope, we visit them in actuality and come back wounded. But then the plump nursemaid of nostalgia leads us back to those very streets and lampposts and we return with a poem in our hands. As we grow old, life's intoxication gradually changes into tipsy indifference, but arriving at our eternal resting place we are unexpectedly clear-eyed. We see that we have ended up where we started from. Our childhood homes might have been lost but childhood itself has turned out to be our home. Loyally and forever. Salman Akhtar was born in India and completed his medical and psychiatric education there. Upon arriving in the USA in 1973, he repeated his psychiatric training at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and then obtained psychoanalytic training from the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute. Currently, he is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. His more than 300 publications include nine books: Broken Structures; Quest for Answers; Inner Torment; Immigration and Identity; New Clinical Realms; Objects of Our Desire; Regarding Others; Turning Points in Dynamic Psychotherapy; and The Damaged Core, as well as twenty-six edited or co-edited volumes in psychiatry, psychoanalysis and cultural psychology. He is also a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. An accomplished poet himself, his latest publication is Between Hours (Karnac 2012), a collection of poems by fellow-psychoanalysts. He says of this project: “While accommodating playfulness and even a bit of audacity, both psychoanalysis and poetry deeply respect formality of structure, nuance of affect, and the multifaceted resonance of the spoken word.... To put it bluntly, psychoanalysis is two-person poetry and poetry one-person psychoanalysis.”

ANALYTICAL SPACES - Part 3

Architecture, Art and Psychoanalysis.  A  four part podcast recorded by Paul Mitchell at the Anna Freud Centre on Saturday 14th July 2012. This conference brought together practitioners and theorists from different fields to think about the emotional experience of architecture and architectural spaces. In home, theatre, church, museum, or transformations of space in contemporary art, architecture and mental space interact in ways that indicate the role of  unconscious process in the built environment. Part 3: In Space Between: Photography, Memory and Construction Yamini Nayar ABSTRACT Yamini Nayar's photographs stem from a deep interest in architectural space, lived experience and memory. Her large scale images are made by documenting sculptural installations built in her studio on tabletops from raw and found building materials and collected image fragments. Drawing on historical photos and personal narrative, her images explore the tensions between sculpture and photography, as the image develops over time and accumulates its own narrative logic, physicality and traces of construction and erasure. Once recorded, the sculpture is disassembled and discarded. Only the photograph remains, as a document, object and entry point into a moment held together for the lens. Yamini Nayar is an internationally recognised artist living in New York. She is currently a Workspace Artist-in-Residence with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and a Visiting Artist Scholar at New York University's Steinhardt School of Art. Prior to these appointments she was resident in 2010 at the Center for Photography at Woodstock and was the Lightborne artist-in-residence at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She has participated in exhibitions and publications internationally, including the Saatchi Museum in London, Indian Art Summit, Art Basel in Switzerland, Sharjah Biennial and Unfixed: Postcolonial Perspectives in Photography and Contemporary Art, Amsterdam. She has had recent solo exhibitions with Thomas Erben, NY and Amrita Jhaveri, Mumbai. Reviews include Artforum, Art in America, ArtPapers, Art India, Vogue India and the New Yorker. Nayar's upcoming exhibitions include the DeCordova Sculpture Museum, Massachusetts and the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia. Collections include the Saatchi Museum, US Arts in Embassies, Cincinnati Art Museum, Queens Museum, Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane and the Hiscox Collection. Nayar received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. www.yamininayar.com

ANALYTICAL SPACES - Part 2

Architecture, Art and Psychoanalysis.  A  four part podcast recorded by Paul Mitchell at the Anna Freud Centre on Saturday 14th July 2012. This conference brought together practitioners and theorists from different fields to think about the emotional experience of architecture and architectural spaces. In home, theatre, church, museum, or transformations of space in contemporary art, architecture and mental space interact in ways that indicate the role of  unconscious process in the built environment. Part 2: Dramatic Architecture: The design of Hampstead and Royal Shakespeare Theatres Rab Bennetts ABSTRACT Rab Bennetts’ examined the lengthy gestation of the Hampstead Theatre project and the way in which the architect’s role extended from urban planning to detailed design, resulting in a compact theatre that has been praised by audiences and actors alike. Rab will then describe how this led to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford Upon Avon, working on a brief to transform a listed but flawed existing building. In particular, the acclaimed 1000-seat auditorium was to be “something that Shakespeare might recognise”. Whilst the two theatres are very different, they emerged from the same craft-like, collaborative design process. The paper highlights the conflict between iconic (ie; dramatic) architecture and the architecture of theatres that accentuates the drama – before, during and after the performance. Rab Bennetts is the Director of Bennetts Associates Architects which he founded with his wife Denise in 1987. The firm, based in London and Edinburgh, has been responsible for many pioneering projects such as the PowerGen Headquarters, Wessex Water Operations Centre, Hampstead Theatre, Edinburgh University’s Informatics Forum, Jubilee Library in Brighton and the New Street Square development in the City of London. Recent notable commissions include the £100 million transformation of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the Humanities Faculties and Library for Oxford University and hotels in London and Amsterdam. The firm is also particularly well known for its work on environmental sustainability. The practice has won more than 120 awards and has been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize several times. The firm won the UK Architect of the Year award in 2006 and 2011. Rab leads the design direction of Bennetts Associates and is personally involved in many of the firm’s projects. He is also extensively involved in outside bodies and is a Board member of the UK Green Building Council, a Director of Sadler’s Wells Theatre and a Trustee of the Design Council. He has in the past chaired the RIBA’s Competitions Committee, advised the Government on sustainability policy and sat on Islington’s Planning Committee as an expert adviser. He has lectured extensively and has contributed to numerous publications and conferences. Rab was awarded the OBE for services to architecture in 2003 and Sustainability Leader of the Year in 2009 at the Building/UK-GBC Sustainability Awards.

ANALYTICAL SPACES - Part 1

Architecture, Art and Psychoanalysis.  A  four part podcast recorded by Paul Mitchell at the Anna Freud Centre on Saturday 14th July 2012. This conference brought together practitioners and theorists from different fields to think about the emotional experience of architecture and architectural spaces. In home, theatre, church, museum, or transformations of space in contemporary art, architecture and mental space interact in ways that indicate the role of  unconscious process in the built environment. Part 1: Projection, Space and Architecture Mark Cousins ABSTRACT Architecture, at least in its western form since the Renaissance, has been thought of as an art of projection. That is why drawing is thought to be central to architecture as the mediation between an 'idea' and an object in space. This is where psychoanalysis and its repetoire of concepts of projection and of introjection are particularly relevant. This paper seeks to outline the way in which psychoanalysis can understand space and spatial projection. Mark Cousins is a British cultural critic and architectural theorist. He is the Director of General Studies and Head of the Graduate Program in Histories and Theories at the Architectural Association, London. He is also Visiting Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, New York. He co-founded the London Consortium along with Paul Hirst, Colin MacCabe, and Richard Humphreys. He is the author of, among other things, a book on Michel Foucault, co-written with Athar Hussain (London: Macmillan, 1984).

PROJECTIONS 2: David Lynch, surrealism and psychoanalysis

A sold out 90-minute lecture followed by 30-minute group discussion filmed at the Freud Museum London on 29 August 2012.

Moving beyond the 'blurred identity trilogy', the second of the PROJECTIONS lectures examines the artistic implications of David Lynch's inimitable style, which marks the shared space between the investigative 'desire to know' in psychoanalysis, and the provocative 'knowledge subversion' in surrealism. This anarchic process emerges from the unconscious, a mysterious psychic terrain that Lynch accesses via the practice of transcendental meditation. Special consideration will be given to Lacanian concepts of mirror stage and linguistic alienation in the exploration of Lynchian technique, comprised of dream-logic that is turbulent and seductive in equal measure. PROJECTIONS is psychoanalysis for film interpretation.PROJECTIONS empowers film spectators to express subjective associations they consider to be meaningful. Expertise in psychoanalytic theory is not necessary - the only prerequisite is the desire to enter and inhabit the imaginary world of film, which is itself a psychoanalytic act. Please watch 'Lost Highway', 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Inland Empire' before attending sessions as there may be spoilers! MARY WILD, a Freudian cinephile from Montreal, is the creator of PROJECTIONS.

PROJECTIONS 1: David Lynch's blurred identity trilogy

A sold out 90-minute lecture followed by 30-minute group discussion filmed at the Freud Museum London on 22 August 2012.

Making sense of 'Lost Highway',' Mulholland Drive' and 'Inland Empire' can be a daunting task! These films by David Lynch have captivated and mystified audiences around the world; Freudian psychoanalysis offers a chance to decipher the American director's luxurious cinematic dreamscapes. In the first of the PROJECTIONS lectures, these titles will be considered as forming a 'trilogy of blurred identity', where the central character in each instalment experiences a psychogenic fugue following the trauma of unrequited love within marriage and/or Hollywood. Special focus will be placed on Freud's hydraulic model of desire in the search for meaning in these enigmatic films. PROJECTIONS is psychoanalysis for film interpretation.PROJECTIONS empowers film spectators to express subjective associations they consider to be meaningful. Expertise in psychoanalytic theory is not necessary - the only prerequisite is the desire to enter and inhabit the imaginary world of film, which is itself a psychoanalytic act. Please watch 'Lost Highway', 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Inland Empire' before attending sessions as there may be spoilers! MARY WILD, a Freudian cinephile from Montreal, is the creator of PROJECTIONS.

Mark the Music: Jews, Music and Viennese Modernity

Austrian Cultural Forum present Mark the Music: Jews, Music and Viennese Modernity. Recorded live at the Freud Museum London on Wednesday 4th July 2012. The role music plays in the cultural life of 19th and 20th century Vienna cannot be overemphasized. This lecture will look at this world from the perspectives of Jews from Herzl to Freud to Mahler and ask why Jews were both welcomed into the musical world and yet were never quite at home in it. 'Mark the Music' is a means of understanding modern Jewish cultural sensibilities in a hostile cultural environment. The final lecture in the series Jews, Politics & Austria, organised by the ACF London together with the Leo Baeck Institute London, is given by Sander L. Gilman, a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. He is the author or editor of over eighty books including his most recent edited volume Wagner and Cinema (with Jeongwon Joe, 2010).

Panel Discussion 'Sick' Media and the Inner World

Media and the Inner World.  'Sick' Panel Discussion A sold out event recorded at the Freud Museum London on12 June 2012.  This video podcast was recorded immediately after the showing of the film and involves a panel discussion.

Media and the Inner World present a special screening of a short film, ‘Sick’, at the Freud Museum in collaboration with Patchwork Productions and Mosaic Networking. Following the screening, there will be a discussion with the film’s writer/director, Mike Rymer, its producer, Christine Hartland, and psychotherapist, Carol Leader.

‘Sick’ is a fractured psychological drama that positions the story of a father in the present, his daughter in the past, and sets them on a collision course to define their future. Screened at Mental Health events from Bosnia and Sarajevo to Nova Scotia, and used for education across the UK and Europe, the film has won 20 International Awards. It was represented by The British High Commission when receiving Malta's prestigious Golden Knight, and was selected by 65 Film Festivals across 25 countries in 2008/9. Available in an educational version from BFI Filmstore, and as part of the Film 4 Forgotten Classics Collection, world sales are by Dazzle Films. Media and the Inner World is a research network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It aims to bring together psychotherapists, academics, media professionals and members of the public to think about the role of emotion in contemporary popular culture. The network is directed byDr Caroline Bainbridge (University of Roehampton) and Dr Candida Yates (University of East London). Speaker Biographies Carol Leader is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a member of the London Centre for Psychotherapy (BPC). She is also a member, Training Therapist and Supervisor for The Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy (UKCP) where she teaches. Formerly an actor, writer and presenter, Carol worked extensively in theatre, TV and radio before re-training as a therapist. She was a member of the National Theatre, played leading roles in a number of TV series and also was one of the regular presenters of BBC’s Play School for ten years. She has been in full time private practice as a psychotherapist for fifteen years, works as a consultant for business and projects in the arts and lectures and leads seminars in a number of educational and business settings. She supervises both supervisors and psychotherapists in training at the Westminster Pastoral Foundation and is ‘psychotherapist at large’ for the newly launched Free Associations, now available as a journal on the web. ‘Sick’ is the first film from new writer/director Mike Rymer, and sees him build on grass roots industry experience. Former Assistant Director to Peter Greenaway, and postgraduate of Newport Film School, he recently graduated in Script Development from the National Film and TV School, and received a scholarship to observe classes in Screen Acting at NYU. Christine Hartland produced her first feature film, the political thriller WMD by David Holroyd (nominated Best Debut UK Feature at the East End Film Festival in 2009) which had simultaneous independent UK theatrical and iTunes releases in October 2009. WMD was described as ‘gripping’ by both The Guardian and Channel 4. She has produced many award winning short films including ‘SICK’ available at the BFI and on the Film 4 Forgotten Classics DVD Collection. She is also Executive Producer of debut feature films Life Just Is by Alex Barrett (selected at a major UK International Film Festival and in talks with a UK distributor) and Verity’s Summer by Palme d’Or Nominee Ben Crowe. She founded Patchwork Productions, which has feature projects at various stages of development; and was part of the 2009-10 Guiding Light Mentoring scheme with producer mentor Damian Jones (Oscar winning The Iron Lady).

Marina Warner: 'Family Romances: The Daughters of Eve, the Sisters of Cain'

Freud Memorial Lecture.  A sold out event, filmed at the Anna Freud Centre on 22 May 2012. Marina Warner is a writer whose works include novels and short stories as well as studies in cultural history, art, myths, symbols, and fairytales. She is a Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of Essex. Her most recent book, Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights, was recently published by Chatto & Windus. This year’s Freud Memorial Lecture will connect with the two major London exhibitions for 2012 which are running concurrently: Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed, at the Freud Museum, and Lucian Freud Portraits, at the National Portrait Gallery. Images © Louise Bourgeois Trust

'Ghost Track' and 'Kong Lear'

A live performance.  Filmed at the Freud Museum on 30th April 2012.

Ghost Track is very beautiful because Claire quite clearly gets into a dialogue with her own biographies so it circles around her as a person but it expands into her field, it has a clear context and expands into space’ Serge von Arx theatre architect and scenographer Berlin A solo performance by Claire Hind, written in collaboration with Gary Winters of Lone Twin, co-directed with Alexander Kelly of Third Angel. Ghost Track is a performance that weaves autobiography with King Lear, and the perennial difficulties of the father-daughter relationship. Claire Hind tells stories about the thoughts and terrors one has when waking up in the middle of the night, about her petrol pump neurosis and her 7 dads, one of whom is her ‘ghost dad’. It is a work that carefully braids humour with the power that fear and anxiety has over us as we lead very busy lives and juggle many roles. This work draws upon the ‘Father’ of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and thinks about the different ways in which his writing inscribes himself into his work, including his moving paper ‘The theme of the three caskets’ (1913) that takes King Lear and his three daughters as his prime example. Psychoanalysis is used as a compositional strategy to write a space for the performer – and also as a zone in which the playfulness of the performer as storyteller can be explored. Ghost Track demonstrates the slippages that occur in story-telling and uses the Nano pad (a sound sampler) as a symbol of the unconscious mind that disrupts our sense of cohesion, functioning as a buffer zone between play and fear. The material is developed from a series of performance writing workshops that Claire experienced with artist Gary Winters of the international renowned performance duo Lone Twin. They became interested in the repetition of language that occurs in act one scene one of King Lear, Nothing. Nothing will come of nothing and the repetition of the ritual in this act – each daughter coming forward to repeat a similar speech act to their father - and relate this to the death drive and the Electra complex. Kong Lear Super 8mm film Kong Lear is a humorous and touching film referencing King Lear’s madness upon some heath and re-imagining King Kong inside Lear’s psyche as woman. It is an Ubu for the 21st Century – Andrew Head, Hull University. The images of Kong Lear on the screen are beautiful and evocative. One minute she (as Kong Lear) appears playful, the next vulnerable and melancholic, absorbed in a world where nature once stood. Arrested Motion. Kong Lear is a play on words of the two male characters of King Kong and King Lear. We like the idea that Kong is inside King Lear’s psyche and we like the idea that the character of Kong Lear is played by a woman – imagine that… Freud would have a field day! This short film is the B track – the flip side to the live show. We decided to write a piece for super 8mm film to act as if the live show’s material had an unconscious, or a psyche. We are playing with the idea that the id, in Freudian psychoanalysis is silent and we became fascinated about the position of writing on silent film’s intertitles – for us they have the possibility to reveal what is hidden inside the character’s and performer’s psyche. Our playful merging of these two icons produced a string of images, texts and activities that included the filming of the character looking down upon the city of York from the Lord Mayors’ apartment roof, running feral along Fifth Avenue in New York and ascending a climbing wall inside a Go Outdoors store on Foss Island retail park (not Skull island). Lone Twin are currently working on a project for the Cultural Olympiad entitled the Boat Project.

Beyond EartH DeatH - Jane McAdam Freud

Lucian Freud My Father

Artist's Talk: Jane McAdam Freud

On the 22nd February 2012 Jane McAdam Freud joined us to discuss her exhibition Lucian Freud My Father - A personal portrayal.  This is a video excerpt from that event. Artist Jane McAdam Freud presented a large scale sculpture portraying her father Lucian Freud. It was unveiled and exhibited for the first time in the Freud Museum – once home to her great grandfather, Sigmund Freud. Jane spent many hours with her father in the months before his death in July 2011 making sketches for this new work. It was shown at the Freud Museum alongside other smaller scale work and preparatory sketches. The show ran from 25 January 2012 - 4 March 2012

'Hysteria, heredity and anti-Semitism: Freud's challenge to the Jewish stereotype' by Estelle Roith

'Hysteria, heredity and anti-Semitism: Freud's challenge to the Jewish stereotype'

A Talk by Estelle Roith

Recorded at the Freud Museum London on 28 February 2012. Estelle Roith is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and trained at the London Centre for psychotherapy. She is the author of the of The Riddle of Freud: Jewish influences on his theory of female sexuality published in 1987, in the New Library of Psychoanalysis. Her recent work includes:Ishmael and Isaac: An Enduring Conflict, in Sibling Relationships'by Coles, 2006, Dr. Roith is currently working on a study that proposes that significant events in Freud's time, overlooked until now, have been an important influence in his life and in the development of psychoanalysis.

Photography and Freud: From Roma-Amor to Erotic Saturn

An Illustrated Hampstead Authors Society Talk by Mary Bergstein

Sound recorded at the Freud Museum on 13 February 2012 Mary Bergstein, gave an illustrated talk at the Freud Museum, introduced by HAS Chaiman Zsuzsanna Ardó. The talk explored Freud's visual imagination in terms of the photography he (and his patients) pondered. It is important that Freud believed repressed memories were unconscious, and that the most potent memories and desires would emerge in psychoanalysis from deep inside, via dreams. In the period from Freud's childhood to his old-age ruminations, several kinds of photographs were prominent: portraits, psychiatric illustrations, archaeological photography, and ethnographic documentation. These images along with the erotic photography and films of the era, that Mary Bernstein will introduce, paralleled the phenomena of Freudian memories and dreams. Mary Bergstein is a scholar of Italian Renaissance sculpture, painting, and architecture. She has also published widely on the cultural history of photography, which includes Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art (2010). Bergstein is interested in the social history of art and visual culture, and has written on topics from Donatello and Michelangelo, to “reproductive” photography, to advertising art and contemporary manufactured dolls such as Barbie and Bratz. The Hampstead Authors Society (HAS) is a transcultural, transdisciplinary creative society, connecting ideas, people and places. HAS venues and partners include the Royal Institute, the British Film Academy (BAFTA), Nehru Centre, Jewish Cultural Centre, French Cultural Institute, Riverside Studio, Everyman Cinemas, Artsdepot Gallery, La Notte Blu di Firenze, Casa della Creativita, 12 Star Gallery, Europe House.

The Graving Tool: Sian Thomas in conversation

Recorded at the Freud Museum London on 22 January 2012

The Graving Tool

Sian Thomas in conversation with Timberlake Wertenbaker

This year playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker isWriter in Residence at the Freud Museum, generously funded by theLeverhulme Trust. Timberlake Wertenbaker is an acclaimed and prolific playwright whose works have been performed and studied all over the world. Her play Our Country’s Good is an A level text and won the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year award in 1988. She is also a translator, translating and adapting plays for performance from French (examples include Marivaux’s False Admissions, Anouilh’s Wild Orchids and Racine’s Phedre) and from classical Greek (examples include Sophocles Elektra and Euripides Hippolytus.) Her recent translation of Racine’s Britannicus received rapturous reviews at Wilton’s Music Hall. She is using her residency at the Freud Museum to complete her latest play, The Suicide of Colonel A. Ajaxinspired by Sophocles’ Ajax. Timberlake is organising The Graving Tool, a series of conversations between herself and leading theatre practitioners probing how they create complex characters. These conversations will take place on Sunday evenings in January/February 2012 at the Freud Museum. Timberlake will ask how actors and directors explore the physical and mental makeup of a character on stage. How does an actor enter into the psychology of a character, particularly in a new play? What physical manifestation, including habits or tics do they come up with and how is this used in the performance? What do they read, particularly when acting a disturbed character? Where do they find this in themselves? How are actors affected by the personalities they inhabit? Siân Thomas is an award-winning Welsh actress who has appeared on stage, on TV and in films. After graduating in acting from the Central School of Speech and Drama, she spent a year in rep before working for two years at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre, which she describes as one of the happiest times of her life. Shortly after she made her debut as "Katarina" in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "The Taming of the Shrew" and has since worked with several leading stage groups, notably the National Theatre. Most recently she played Agrippina in Timberlake Wertenbaker's translation of Britannicus, that she recently played Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Shefiield Crucible and that she is currently appearing at the Donmar's Richard the Second as the Duchess of York.

The Graving Tool: Michael Pennington in conversation with Philip Franks

Recorded at the Freud Museum London on 8 January 2012

The Graving Tool: A Series of Talks Hosted by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Michael Pennington in conversation with Philip Franks

This year playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker is Writer in Residence at the Freud Museum, generously funded by theLeverhulme Trust. Timberlake Wertenbaker is an acclaimed and prolific playwright whose works have been performed and studied all over the world. Her play Our Country’s Good is an A level text and won the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year award in 1988. She is also a translator, translating and adapting plays for performance from French (examples include Marivaux’s False Admissions, Anouilh’s Wild Orchids and Racine’s Phedre) and from classical Greek (examples include Sophocles’ Elektra and Euripides’ Hippolytus.) Her recent translation of Racine’s Britannicus received rapturous reviews at Wilton’s Music Hall. She is using her residency at the Freud Museum to complete her latest play, The Suicide of Colonel A. Ajaxinspired by Sophocles’ Ajax. Timberlake is organising The Graving Tool, a series of conversations between herself and leading theatre practitioners probing how they create complex characters. Timberlake will ask how actors and directors explore the physical and mental makeup of a character on stage. How does an actor enter into the psychology of a character, particularly in a new play? What physical manifestation, including habits or tics do they come up with and how is this used in the performance? What do they read, particularly when acting a disturbed character? Where do they find this in themselves? How are actors affected by the personalities they inhabit? Michael Pennington is a British director and actor, most of his career has been on stage in works such as Hamlet(RSC), Oedipus the King, The Entertainer and Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. In 1986, Pennington and director Michael Bogdanov together founded the English Shakespeare Company. As joint artistic director, he starred in the company's inaugural productions of The Henrys and, in 1987, the seven-play history cycle of The Wars of the Roses, which toured worldwide. He appeared in the 2005 film Fragile, co-starring Calista Flockhart and is the author of the book Are You There, Crocodile? which combines biographical material about the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov with a narration of Pennington's efforts to write a one-man play about Chekhov. In April 2004 he became the second actor, after Harley Granville-Barker in 1925, to deliver the British Academy's annual Shakespeare lecture. The lecture was entitledBarnadine's Straw: The Devil in Shakespeare's Detail. Philip Franks is an English director and actor, he has directed many plays including Kafka's Dick and The Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Nottingham Playhouse), Hamlet(Greenwich and tour), The Duchess of Malfi (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Greenwich and West End), Private Lives and The Heiress (Royal National Theatre) and The White Devil(Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith). Franks is best known for his roles as tax inspector Cedric "Charley" Charlton in the British sitcom The Darling Buds of May, and Sgt. Raymond Craddock on Heartbeat. He has also made guest appearances in Absolutely Fabulous andFoyle's War. Other appearances include the TV miniseriesBleak House, Martin Chuzzlewit, The Buddha of Suburbia, The Green Man and To Serve Them All My Days. Franks is also a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Richard Crow - Radio Schreber, Soliloques for Schziophonic (extract), 20.4.2011

Richard Crow - Radio Schreber, Soliloques for Schziophonic (extract), 20.4.2011

Phantasmic voices of Radio Schreber: Richard Crow, Gabriel Séverin, Anna Teresa Scheer, Nick Couldry, Adam Bohman, Douglas Park and others who remain obscure and unknown...

Radio Schreber, Soliloques for Schziophonic voices investigates

the recurring theme of ‘hearing voices’ in sonic and literary

works by paying homage to Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My

Nervous Illness. Written in 1903 during his second mental illness

at Sonnenstein Public asylum, the Memoirs detail an alternate

delusional world famously analysed by Freud in his Psycho-analytic

Notes on An Autobiographical account of a case of paranoia

(Dementia Paranoides) published in 1911.

For the centenary of Schreber’s death (and Freud’s Psychoanalytic

Notes), a sound performance by artist Richard Crow

will give voice to Schreber’s visionary text through a specially

created composition that will be premiered at the Freud Museum

London. As a continuation of his project, Imaginary Hospital

Radio, Richard Crow will work in collaboration with sound-poet

Gabriel Séverin in exploring a sonic tableaux of phantasmic and

disembodied voices embedded in the text as well as in its physical

and imaginary locations inhabited by Schreber.

Presented by Sound Threshold. Curated by Lucia Farinati with the assistance of Rita Correddu.

Recorded by Colin Potter.

Crash Bash Trash (Video Version)

Crash Bash Trash

A stand up performance on CBT at the Anna Freud Centre on Tuesday 6th December 2011 at 7pm.

Psychotherapist by day, comedienne by night, Liz Bentley uncovers the truth about Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Armed with ukulele and Casio keyboard Liz is one of the quirkiest voices on London’s spoken word scene. “Like a female Ivor Cutler” The Scotsman “A refreshingly multi-talented writer and performer. Her sharp wit combined with her unique style and delivery is highly infectious – comes thoroughly recommended!” New Writing South Liz Bentley sought psychoanalytical psychotherapy at age 23 . Struggling with bulimia, drugs, relationships and the diagnoses of Multiple Sclerosis, her therapy allowed her to be creative and provided a way of making sense of her difficulties. Liz has performed at London literature festival at Southbank, the National Theatre and has had three successful shows at Edinburgh festival (2008 being in Edinburgh’s only swimming pool venue, included hosting over 100 other writers/performers in the water. Liz’s experiences of mental and physical health have taken her into disability arts where she has performed at Bonkersfest, Liberty festival (2009 Liberty laureate) and Da Da festival. She strives to smash the apartheid between disability and mainstream arts. Liz has worked as a counsellor/psychotherapist for 18 years. She lives in Peckham with her family and currently works in the NHS and has a private practice. She has a special interest in psychosomatic, medically unexplained persistent physical symptoms and has just completed an MA dissertation on this subject.

ADULT LOVE AND ITS ROOTS IN INFANCY - Part 4 of 4

Day Conference at the Tavistock Centre, London on 3rd December 2011 - a four part podcast. Part 4 of 4: Estela Welldon - The Dangers of First Love This conference investigated adult love by bringing together the worlds of psychoanalysis, literature, and performance. The most sublime, exhilarating and painful of emotions, love puzzles the intellect and almost defies description. It motivates the best and worst of us, overwhelming us with the ferocity of its demands, while thwarted love and perverse love are at the heart of much violent behaviour and neurotic suffering. Psychoanalysis unlocks the mystery of love by tracing its roots to childhood. The conference will be of interest to anyone involved in adult psychotherapy or counselling, and anyone who has ever been in love. ABSTRACTS Estela Welldon The first love between mother and baby will forever mark future encounters and relationships. Mother-baby love has a unique characteristic in that both parties are involved not only psychologically but also biologically. The possibility exists of a mutual and reciprocal experience of blissful and satisfying union. The expectation is of ‘unconditional love’. This is the situation in the perfect world, however things are not that simple and uncomplicated. In this talk we shall be addressing failures of that 1st love leading to violent relationships and escalating to forensic cases. Using clinical examples from both forensic and non-forensic psychotherapy this paper will show how the first experiences of love mark people for future love encounters, and how new patterns of loving can be established.

ADULT LOVE AND ITS ROOTS IN INFANCY - Part 3 of 4

Day Conference at the Tavistock Centre, London on 3rd December 2011 - a four part podcast. Part 3 of 4: Anna Furse - When I touch the keys my flesh melts: On writing Don Juan.Who? This conference investigated adult love by bringing together the worlds of psychoanalysis, literature, and performance. The most sublime, exhilarating and painful of emotions, love puzzles the intellect and almost defies description. It motivates the best and worst of us, overwhelming us with the ferocity of its demands, while thwarted love and perverse love are at the heart of much violent behaviour and neurotic suffering. Psychoanalysis unlocks the mystery of love by tracing its roots to childhood. The conference will be of interest to anyone involved in adult psychotherapy or counselling, and anyone who has ever been in love. ABSTRACTS Anna Furse The theatre production Don Juan.Who?/Don Juan.Kdo? (Athletes of the Heart with Mladinsko, Ljubljana and Riverside Studios 2008) was created in an especially assembled private 'cyberstudio' where geographically dispersed collaborators wrote confessionally and anonymously for 18 months to produce a performance text on the Don Juan archetype. An online masquerade, the project aimed to get under the skin of PC and reveal how the nomadic, priapic, irresponsible seducer lurks in women - and men's - minds. As the company met weekly to write on this theme, the actual erotic of the writing process began to reveal itself, as well the pleasure in cross-dressing at will, being interrupted, merging with others, and getting lost in the 'ballroom' of cyberspace.

ADULT LOVE AND ITS ROOTS IN INFANCY - Part 1 of 4

Day Conference at the Tavistock Centre, London on 3rd December 2011 - a four part podcast. Part 1 of 4: Lisa Appignanesi (Chair) - All About Love &  Introductory Remarks and Bernard Barnett Psychoanalytic Love, Real Love and Love in Anna Karenina. This conference investigated adult love by bringing together the worlds of psychoanalysis, literature, and performance. The most sublime, exhilarating and painful of emotions, love puzzles the intellect and almost defies description. It motivates the best and worst of us, overwhelming us with the ferocity of its demands, while thwarted love and perverse love are at the heart of much violent behaviour and neurotic suffering. Psychoanalysis unlocks the mystery of love by tracing its roots to childhood. The conference will be of interest to anyone involved in adult psychotherapy or counselling, and anyone who has ever been in love. ABSTRACTS Bernard Barnett In my paper I will discuss the nature of love (and to a lesser extent of hate) and take a fresh look at the psychoanalytic relationship and especially the the paradox of psychoanalytic love. I will draw on the work of Freud, Winnicott, Shakespeare, Hardy and especially Tolstoy and with the use of material from one of my own patients, I will explore a few of the many different kinds of love and arrive at some tentative conclusions.

Playing with dynamite: A personal approach to forensic psychotherapy A talk by Estela Welldon

Playing with dynamite: A personal approach to forensic psychotherapy

A talk by Estela Welldon at the Freud Museum on 10 November 2011.

Estela Welldon discusses her personal understanding of perversions, violence and criminality based on her many years experience at the Portman Clinic and her latest bookPlaying with Dynamite. 'Estela Welldon has taught a whole generation of clinicians to question their idealisation of the mother-child relation. In this superb new study, she challenges both popular and professional preconceptions about perversion, violence, and crime. Drawing on years of research and clinical practice, she shows us the importance of thinking before blaming, and gives us the clinical and conceptual tools to do so. A brave and deeply humane work, this invites us to go beyond gut moralism and to enter the minds of those it is always easier to incarcerate than to understand.’ Darian Leader, psychoanalyst Estela Welldon is a psychotherapist who worked for many years at the Portman Clinic and in private practice. She is the founder of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She is most famous for her book Mother, Madonna Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood (1988) which quashed the myth that ‘perversion’ was largely a male preserve and opened up a whole new field of therapeutic enquiry. She is the author ofSadomasochism (2002) and principal editor of A Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy (1997). Her latest publication is Playing with Dynamite: A Personal Approach to the Understanding of Perversions, Violence and Criminality (Karnac, 2011)

Author's Talk: Marilyn's Last Sessions Michel Schneider in Conversation with Lisa Appignanesi

Author's Talk: Marilyn's Last Sessions

Michel Schneider in Conversation with Lisa Appignanesi

A special event from the Freud Museum London, held at the Anna Freud Centre on 1 November 2011. 4.25 am, 5 August 1962, West Los Angeles Police Department ‘Marilyn Monroe has died of an overdose’, a man’s voice says dully. And when the stunned policeman asked ‘What?’, the same voice struggled to repeat ‘Marilyn Monroe has died. She has committed suicide.’ In the three years running up to this phonecall, psychoanalyst Dr Ralph Greenson became the most important person in Marilyn Monroe’s life. They met almost every day. He was her analyst, her friend and her confessor. He was the last person to see her alive, and the first to see her dead. In this highly acclaimed novel, based on the transcripts of their meetings, Marilyn’s last years are brilliantly recreated. It is the story of the world’s most famous and elusive actress, told partially in her own words. The book raises questions about the increasingly blurred lines between fact and fiction, as well as giving powerful insight into the workings of Hollywood and its close links with psychoanalysis. Michel Schneider has written on psychoanalysis, Baudelaire, Proust, Schumann and Glenn Gould. His essay collection, Morts Imaginaires (Grasset, 2003), won the Médicis Essay Award. He lives in France. Lisa Appignanesi is a writer, broadcaster and chair of trustees of the Freud Museum London. Her most recent book All about Love, is an intimate and illuminating look at how love shapes our lives and our world.

Psychotherapy without foundations? A conference podcast, part 4 of 4

On Saturday 29th October 2011, the Freud Museum Public Programme held a one day conference, “Psychotherapy without foundations?” at the Anna Freud Centre, 12 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SH. Podcast 4 of 4 Session 4: Training John Heaton: Wittgenstein and the implications for the training of psychotherapists. Del Loewenthal and Robert Snell: A training in post-existentialism - towards a therapy without foundations. Bice Benvenuto - Respondent. followed by a group discussion.

Psychotherapy without foundations? A conference podcast, part 3 of 4

On Saturday 29th October 2011, the Freud Museum Public Programme held a one day conference, “Psychotherapy without foundations?” at the Anna Freud Centre, 12 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SH. Podcast 3 of 4 Session 3: Theory and Research Julia Cayne: Researching the between as unknown: Post-phenomenology for practice, theory and research. Phil Mollon - Respondent. followed by a group discussion.

Psychotherapy without foundations? A conference podcast, part 2 of 4

On Saturday 29th October 2011, the Freud Museum Public Programme held a one day conference, “Psychotherapy without foundations?” at the Anna Freud Centre, 12 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SH. Podcast 2 of 4 Session 2: Therapeutic Practice Tom Cotton: Laing and ‘the treatment is the way we treat people’ Rhiannon Thomas: Language, experience and misrepresentation: The case of Lola Voss Haya Oakley - Respondent. followed by a group discussion.

Psychotherapy without foundations? A conference podcast, part 1 of 4

On Saturday 29th October 2011, the Freud Museum Public Programme held a one day conference, “Psychotherapy without foundations?” at the Anna Freud Centre, 12 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SH. Podcast 1 of 4 Session 1:  Introduction Del Loewenthal: On the very idea of a therapy without foundations. Robert Hinshelwood - Respondent followed by group discussion.

Barbara Loftus in Conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen

An exclusive event at the Freud Museum London.  On 26 October 2011 at 7pm:

Barbara Loftus in Conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen

Artist Barbara Loftus discusses her exhibition Sigismund’s Watch: A Tiny Catastrophe, with the shows curator Monica Bohm-Duchen.Sigismund’s Watch: A Tiny Catastrophe is a beautifully executed and intellectually thought-provoking cycle of artworks, prompted by the recollections of the artist’s mother Hildegard, who fled from Germany to England as a Jewish refugee in 1939. The story is told through a series of oil paintings and works on paper, vividly contextualised by documentary images and quotations from the Weimar period. Barbara Loftus is a figurative painter who also makes artist’s bookworks. She combines a traditional studio practice with performed re-enactment, historical research and digital media to feed into her image making process. Monica Bohm-Duchen is an independent writer, lecturer and exhibition organiser. The institutions for which she has worked include the Tate Gallery, the National Gallery, The Royal Academy of the Arts and the Courtauld Institute. The publications to which she has contributed include The Jewish Quarterly, RA Magazine, Art Monthly and Modern Painters.

Video Introduction: Victor Ross in conversation with Michael Molnar.

An introduction to the special event - Victor Ross in conversation with Michael Molnar. On 6 May 1926, at a party in Bergasse 19, Vienna's psychoanalytic establishment turned out to celebrate Sigmund Freud's 70th Birthday. Guests came from far afield: Princess Marie Bonaparte from Paris, Ernest Jones from London, Ernst Simmel from Berlin. Also present were Dorothy Burlingham and Eva Rosenfeld, at that time as close to Anna Freud as a sister and Eva's young son, Victor Ross. 85 years on, Freud scholar and former Freud Museum Director, Michael Molnar talks to Victor Ross about his life and relations to the Freud family. This is a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear recollections from someone who knew the Freud family well, and has personal memories of the Freuds both when they were living in Vienna and at 20 Maresfield Gardens. This talk is part of the Museum’s 25th anniversary programme and was recorded at the Anna Freud Centre on Wednesday 21st September 2011.

Victor Ross in conversation with Michael Molnar

Victor Ross in conversation with Michael Molnar. On 6 May 1926, at a party in Bergasse 19, Vienna's psychoanalytic establishment turned out to celebrate Sigmund Freud's 70th Birthday. Guests came from far afield: Princess Marie Bonaparte from Paris, Ernest Jones from London, Ernst Simmel from Berlin. Also present were Dorothy Burlingham and Eva Rosenfeld, at that time as close to Anna Freud as a sister and Eva's young son, Victor Ross. 85 years on, Freud scholar and former Freud Museum Director, Michael Molnar talks to Victor Ross about his life and relations to the Freud family. This is a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear recollections from someone who knew the Freud family well, and has personal memories of the Freuds both when they were living in Vienna and at 20 Maresfield Gardens. This talk is part of the Museum’s 25th anniversary programme and was recorded at the Anna Freud Centre on Wednesday 21st September 2011.

Psychoanalysis, Judaism and Modernity - a conference podcast, Part 6 of 6

Day Conference, Sunday 3 July at the Anna Freud Centre

A day of talks and discussion exploring the links between these three great cultural phenomena, and the lessons that can be learned for the 'post-modern' age of today.

This is the final of the six podcasts highlighting the talks and discussions that took place during the day conference and is a video presentation by Tom Keve.

Tom Keve is a scientist and fellow of the Institute of Physics. Born in Budapest, he came to England as a refugee in 1956 and has since travelled widely in the United States, Holland and France. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Triad: The physicists, the analysts, the kabbalists (2000) in which he brings together several of his fields of research - quantum physics, psychoanalysis, Central European Jewish history and kabbalah – into a single factual work.

Psychoanalysis, Judaism and Modernity - a conference podcast, Part 5 of 6

Day Conference, Sunday 3 July at the Anna Freud Centre

A day of talks and discussion exploring the links between these three great cultural phenomena, and the lessons that can be learned for the 'post-modern' age of today.

This is the fifth of six podcasts highlighting the talks and discussions that took place during the day conference.

Podcast 5:

Jay Geller "A State within a State": Freud's Disavowal of Antisemitism (abstract)

Jay Geller is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Culture at Vanderbilt University, former Fulbright/Sigmund Freud Society Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis (Vienna), and currently Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (Cambridge, UK). He is the author of On Freud’s Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions (Fordham, 2007) and The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity (Fordham, June 2011). He also co-edited Reading Freud’s Reading (NYU, 1994), a collection that grew out of an NEH Summer Seminar conducted at the Freud Museum.

Psychoanalysis, Judaism and Modernity - a conference podcast, Part 4 of 6

Day Conference, Sunday 3 July at the Anna Freud Centre

A day of talks and discussion exploring the links between these three great cultural phenomena, and the lessons that can be learned for the 'post-modern' age of today.

This is the fourth of six podcasts highlighting the talks and discussions that took place during the day conference.

Podcast 4:

Vic Seidler Embodying psychoanalysis: Masculinities, Judaism and the crisis of modernity.

Vic Seidler's abstract: This paper will explore some of the complexities in the relationship between judaism and psychoanalysis and the ways they frame a questioning of Enlightenment modernities constructed around gendered notions of a rational self. Through exploring how a recognition of bodies and processes of embodiment have been tied up with dominant notions of European masculinities we learn to think in different terms about bodies and emotional lives as sources of knowledge and learn to imagine different layers of embodied experience and identities.

Psychoanalysis, Judaism and Modernity - a conference podcast, Part 3 of 6

Day Conference, Sunday 3 July at the Anna Freud Centre

A day of talks and discussion exploring the links between these three great cultural phenomena, and the lessons that can be learned for the 'post-modern' age of today.

This is the third of six podcasts highlighting the talks and discussions that took place during the day conference.

Podcast 3: Stephen Frosh Psychosocial textuality: Religious identities and textual constructions.

Stephen Frosh is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of many books on psychoanalysis and social theory, including Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis (2005), The politics of psychoanalysis (1999), and Psychoanalysis outside the Clinic: Interventions in Psychosocial Studies (2010). His latest book Feelings (2011) is published by Routledge.

Psychoanalysis, Judaism and Modernity - a conference podcast, Part 2 of 6

Day Conference, Sunday 3 July at the Anna Freud Centre

A day of talks and discussion exploring the links between these three great cultural phenomena, and the lessons that can be learned for the 'post-modern' age of today.

This is the second of six podcasts highlighting the talks and discussions that took place during the day conference.

Podcast 2:

Judit Szekacs and Tom Keve Golem et al

Judit Szekacs and Tom Keve's abstract: Created out of river mud by mediaeval Rabbis and mystically brought to life by them in order to serve, the Golem has metamorphosed more than once. First myth, then tradition, it became an inspiration to the arts and transmuted itself into a symbol - a metaphor for the individual’s need to control the external world, as well as for his quest for autonomy, identity and protection. It symbolises our mystical past as well our technologically dominated future. It is slave. It is protector. It is shorthand for the creative drive and for both the constructive and destructive aspects of human creation; therefore especially relevant in the 21st century.

In our presentations we will discuss historical-cultural aspects of the GOLEM (Tom Keve) and psychoanalytical-clinical dimensions of it.

Psychoanalysis, Judaism and Modernity - a conference podcast, Part 1 of 6

PSYCHOANALYSIS, JUDAISM AND MODERNITY Day Conference, Sunday 3 July at the Anna Freud Centre

A day of talks and discussion exploring the links between these three great cultural phenomena, and the lessons that can be learned for the 'post-modern' age of today.

This is the first of six podcasts highlighting the talks and discussions that took place during the day conference.

Podcast 1:

Devorah Baum Psychoanalysis, Judaism, and the broken promise of modernity.

Devorah Baum's abstract: Psychoanalysis has been at the centre of our most ‘modern’ ways of thinking, yet it has frequently been haunted by the issue of its own ancestry in the form of a certain ‘Jewish question’. This paper will suggest that psychoanalysis is as sceptical as it is constitutive of modernity by reflecting on a number of philosophical convergences between Freudian and Jewish hermeneutic traditions. Specifically, I will present a psychoanalytically informed reading of an ancient Talmudic text in which a rabbinic figure of the heretic (the subject who believes he can live outside the law) strikingly resembles that of the modern intellectual.

An introduction and excerpt from the Radio Schreber event at the Freud Museum

An introduction by Lucia Farinati to the Radio Schreber event held at the Freud Museum London and an exclusive excerpt from the performance, recorded by Colin Potter.

A message for the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna on the 40th Anniversary

A message from the Carol Seigel, director of the Freud Museum London in honour of the 40th anniversary of the Sigmund Freud museum in Vienna.

Talk: Freud on Coke

This podcast includes a talk recorded at the Freud Museum on 19 May 2011 with 'Freud on Coke' author David Cohen. The story of Freud’s cocaine episode and its influence on his most famous work - The Interpretation of Dreams. Author, journalist and BAFTA nominated documentary film maker David Cohen, joins us to discuss his latest book, Freud on Coke. Freud on Coke explores Freud’s use of the drug, its influence on his later thought, and the subsequent, complex relationship between psychology, psychiatry, drugs and culture. Situating Freud’s cocaine experiments in a tradition of introspective research by legendary drug users such as Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary and Alexander Shulgin, Cohen makes a powerful case for radical reform both to the present drug laws and the testing procedures used on new pharmaceuticals. A comprehensive study of drugs on both sides of the law, this is an essential edition to the literature on both drugs and psychoanalysis. Proposed as a cure for ailments ranging from gastric catarrh to female nymphomania, cocaine was, at the time, thought to be harmless. Like many scientists of the period, Freud decided to test the drug personally to study its effects. Prone to depression, a work alcoholic and sexually frustrated, he was hoping to find a medicinal use for the drug that would be hailed as a great discovery...

Alice Anderson in Discussion

Alice Anderson in Discussion with...Darian Leader, Stephanie Rosenthal and Joanna Walker

Artist Alice Anderson, is joined by Darian Leader, Stephanie Rosenthal (Hayward Gallery) and curator Joanna Walker, for an evening discussing themes around her current exhibition Alice Anderson's Childhood Rituals.

Talk- A Citation of Two Tails: A Freudian Parapraxis and the Jewish Origins of Sublimation

Freud claimed that he conceived his idea of sublimation while reading about the youthful dog-tail-cutting adventures of the future surgeon J. F. Dieffenbach in Heinrich Heine’s Harz Journey. Although Heine does mention a prohibition against docking dog tails in the work, the Dieffenbach anecdote actually appears in Heine’s memorial to Ludwig Börne. This lecture argues that Freud’s parapraxis is entwined with an irony that, if recognized, might undermine the general approbation given by Gentiles to his notion of sublimation. After mapping the two passages that converge upon Freud’s errant account of the origin of his concept, this investigation sniffs out a third dog-wagging tail in the work of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, an author Freud closely associated with Heine. The trail then doggedly leads to Freud’s earliest formulations of sublimation, which betray further associations with matters Jewish. In the end [Cutting to the chase?], this tale of tails suggests that what may be most sublimated by Freud’s notion of “sublimation” is the correlation between psychoanalytic discourse and Freud’s Jewish identifications.

Talk: The History of the World in 100 Objects

Why has the British Museum project telling the history of the world in 100 objects captured the public imagination? Why are objects such powerful tools for unlocking historical stories? Find out more about this ground breaking project with Frances Carey from the British Museum.

Talk: Freud at the National Portrait Gallery

Former Freud Museum director Michael Molnar gave this enthralling talk about Sigmund Freud's trip the National Portrait Gallery.

Talk:The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal

Best selling author Edmund De Waal gave an exclusive talk for the Freud Museum based upon his book "The Hare with the Amber Eyes" - the event was sold out, but you can listen to it here.

Ivan Ward in conversation with Judith Symons

Listen to this exclusive interview between Ivan Ward, education director at the Freud Museum and Judith Symons, psychotherapist and contributing artist to the museums current exhibition "Dreams"

Sigmund Freud in London

The first podcast from the Freud Museum in London, details the time Sigmund Freud spent in London.

About the Freud Museum

The Freud Museum, at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, was the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. It remained the family home until Anna Freud, the youngest daughter, died in 1982. The centrepiece of the museum is Freud's study, preserved just as it was during his lifetime. It contains Freud's remarkable collection of antiquities: Egyptian; Greek; Roman and Oriental. Almost 2,000 items fill cabinets and are ranged on every surface. There are rows of ancient figures on the desk where Freud wrote until the early hours of the morning. The walls are lined with shelves containing Freud's largelibrary. The house is also filled with memories of his daughter, Anna, who lived there for 44 years and continued to develop her pioneering psychoanalytic work, especially with children. It was her wish that the house become a museum to honour her illustrious father.  The Freuds were fortunate to be able to bring all their furniture and household effects to London,  These included splendid Biedermeier chests, tables and cupboards, and a fine collection of 18th and 19th century Austrian painted country furniture. Undoubtedly the most famous piece of furniture in all the collection is Freud's psychoanalytic couch, on which all of his patients reclined. The couch is remarkably comfortable and is covered with a richly coloured Iranian rug with chenille cushions piled on top. Other fine Oriental rugs, Heriz and Tabriz, cover the floor and tables. The Museum Today The Museum engages actively with Sigmund and Anna's psychoanalytic legacy in contemporary ideas, art, and culture, while caring for the house and collections. We have a broad range of  Research Resources including Freud's personallibrary and collection, Anna Freud's personal library, an archive containing essential documentation on the life and work of Sigmund and Anna Freud and the history of psychoanalysis, a research library specialising in the history, theory and culture of psychoanalysis, a large library of photographs.  Images from the library are also available to order. Our busy Education Service caters for schools and universities as well as adult groups.  In the Education section of the website, you will also find biographicalinformation about Sigmund Freud,  and key themes in his work.  This section also offers a bibliography.  In addtion we have a lively Conferences and Events programme. We have built up an international reputation for our Exhibition Programme, in which artists create new work in response to the house. Artists have included Sophie Calle, Mat Collishaw and more recently, Louise Bourgeois.  NB: We are not currently accepting unsolicited exhibition proposals.  We intend to continue offering opportunities for artists to work with the museum in the future through open calls, commissions and residencies. All opportunities will be advertised on our website. We have a Shop with a wide range books on the life and work of Sigmund Freud and contemporary psychoanalysis.  We also stock stunning art prints and quirky gifts The Museum can be hired for meetings, private events and filming. We are an Accredited Musuem.

Responses to 'Website Hacked' Tweet

Our website is currently down following a hacking attempt (presumably by Jungians). — Freud Museum London (@FreudMusLondon) May 21, 2013

Hilarity ensued following yesterday's tweet joking that Jungians were to blame for our website being down. Here's a selection of our favourite responses from the Twittersphere!

@freudmuslondon @mrjohnofarrell Did you get the Id of the perpetrators? — Sebrof (@DrSebrof) May 21, 2013

Don't rule out the Behaviorists RT @freudmuslondon: Our website is currently down following a hacking attempt (presumably by Jungians). — Brian Pardy (@BrianPardy) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon @versobooks but why do you feel the host name is "invalid"? — tamar (@tubbsOreally) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon @jpodhoretz Sometimes a cigar is not an Ethernet cable. — Brian Pardy (@BrianPardy) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon Melanie Klein's distributed denial of "difficult conversations" attack? — Alex (@blangry) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon @mrjohnofarrell Shouldn't use m0ther as a password, schoolboy error. — Adam Rosser (@AdamRosser5live) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon @hadleyfreeman I blame your mother. — William Marks (@wildobaggins) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon Jungian Electronic Army Was Here — stephen abraham (@stevecabraham) May 21, 2013

Probably Anonymum. #usingmydegree RT @freudmuslondon: Our website is currently down following a hacking attempt (presumably by Jungians). — John (@JM_Underwood) May 21, 2013

@emmafreud @caitlinmoran @freudmuslondon The Freudianwebsite wasn't really hacked - The Jungians were playing mind games — Ordinary Reader (@suburbanreader) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon @mihirssharma could be R.D.Lang too. — abhimanyu singh (@ksinghabhimanyu) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon Countertransference, I would presume. — Palimpsest (@DerWunderblock) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon It wasn't Jungians. You must be thinking about amother group.. — Korvin M (@kjmobb) May 21, 2013

At least no-one's blaming Mummy. "@freudmuslondon: Our website is currently down following a hacking attempt (presumably by Jungians)." — Amanda Mason (@amandajanemason) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon @jimjohnsonsci a clear case of Synchronicity:) — gys de jongh (@gysdejongh) May 21, 2013

Always blaming others for everything. RT @freudmuslondon Our website is currently down following a hacking attempt (presumably by Jungians). — Laura London (@jungianLaura) May 21, 2013

@jungianlaura @freudmuslondon No one's watching what the Adlerians are doing... — A Chris Heath MD (@AChrisHeathMD) May 21, 2013

“@freudmuslondon: Our website is currently down following a hacking attempt (presumably by Jungians).” Check your ID is safe. — Alan Simpson (@cityalan) May 21, 2013

“@freudmuslondon: Our website is currently down following a hacking attempt (presumably by Jungians).” Made me smile after very unfunny day! — Aileen Evans (@Bushbell) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon @mrjohnofarrell Not "hacked" but "penetrated". — Ms Slide (@sliderulesyou) May 21, 2013

"Humour as an institutional voice" RT @freudmuslondon Our website is currently down following a hacking attempt (presumably by Jungians). — Danny Birchall (@dannybirchall) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon You know what else is down? The subconscious. (No, sorry, really, I hope you get back up soon.) — Martin Ackerfors (@ackerfors) May 21, 2013

Sometimes denial-of-service is just denial-of-service‏@ljndawson ow.ly/lfpTF ow.ly/lfpTF — Jim Fallone (@jfallone) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon @shrinkthinks I never realised that Freudians had a sex of humour.

— Charlie Arthur (@Numinousviews) May 22, 2013