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Freud Museum and Middlesex University
Day Conference Saturday April 16 2005
Shame and Sexuality
Psychoanalysis  Anthropology Visual Culture
a multidisciplinary conference to celebrate the centenary
of Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.

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Phil Mollon (Psychoanalyst) 
The inherent shame of sexuality. 

Stephen Hugh-Jones(Anthropologist) 
Moons, mooning and monthlies: 
Some anthropological reflections on shame. 

Griselda Pollock(Cultural theorist) 
The Visual Poetics of Shame. 

Nicola Abel-Hirsch(Psychoanalyst) and 
Penny Woolcock (Filmmaker) 
The Principles of Lust (provisional title) 

Amna Malik(Art historian)
Shame, disgust and idealisation in 
contemporary Black Art. 

Claire Pajaczkowska(Reader in visual culture) 
The Garden of Eden: Sex, shame and knowledge.

Film Screening
Friday April 15th 7pm - 9pm Tate Modern 
The Principles of Lust
with director Penny Woolcock and Nicola Abel-Hirsch in discussion
 
 
 
 
Supported by Middlesex University Department of Visual Culture

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