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Freud Museum Summer Talks

Public lectures to celebrate Freud's 150th and the Freud Museum's 20th.

Tuesday 30th May 7.00 pm
Barry Curtis (Middlesex University)

The Haunted House

The Haunted House is one of the most enduring and resonant themes of Gothic literature and modern horror. In this talk to coincide with Laurie Lipton's exhibition of the same title, Barry Curtis uses film clips and readings to examine the history, psychology and sociology of this potent image.

Tuesday 20th June 7.00 pm
in association with Architecture Week 2006
Outside/In: architecture, psychoanalysis
and spaces in-between

Distinguished panellists Steve Pile, Faye Carey, Sharon Kivland and Lorens Holm explore the relationships between psychoanalytic theory and practice, art and architecture. Do spatial qualities of art and architecture influence the way we live?Ý How do mental space and physical space interact? What kinds of spaces are encountered when working with the inner life of the psyche? Chair: Jane Rendell. Supported by Arts Council England

Friday 14th July 7.00 pm

Connecting Conversations

at London Metropolitian University
Henry Thomas Room
Tower Building
166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB.

Novelist Gillian Slovo
talks to poet and psychoanalyst Valerie Sinason

organised with the Institute of Psychoanalysis,
London Metropolitan University and
Rowan Arts Project.

Freud Museum Anniversary Talks
FREUD AND HIS CULTURAL CONTEXT
Three public lectures to celebrate Freud's 150th and the Freud Museum's 20th.

Tuesday May 2nd 7.00 pm
Prof. Dennis Klein (USA)
FREUD AND JUDAISM:
Some observations on denial, distortion and illumination Unlike numerous Jewish contemporaries, Freud resisted the temptation to sever his ties with the Jewish world. But his own partial self-concealment, suppression within the movement of anything significantly Jewish, and allegations by his detractors of guilt by Jewish association have conspired to erase or distort one of the fertile origins of Freud's creative endeavours. This lecture will take a look at this 'conspiracy of silence' and seek to restore the explanatory power of Freud's Jewish attachments.

Tuesday May 9th 7.00 pm
Frank Scherer (Canada)
FREUD'S 'VIA REGIA'
An East-West Journey into the Early History of Psychoanalysis In this lavishly illustrated lecture Frank Scherer proposes an imaginary journey from Brody (in the Ukraine) to Paris (France). As we follow the 'Via Regia', Europe's oldest and longest East-Western route, we find a multiplicity of unexpected entry-points to Freud's life and work. In this way we gain a fresh opportunity to discuss topics as diverse as Freud's psychobiography, his fascination with visual arts, the hermeneutics of psychoanalytic thought and its relation to philosophy, literature and the social sciences, as well as the deep imprints of Orientalism and anti-Semitism in Freud's writings

Tuesday May 23rd 7.00 pm
Janine Burke (Australia)
A PASSION FOR POSSESSION: FREUD THE ART COLLECTOR
Freud's obsession with archeology, myth and the beauty of sculptural objects led him to
amass more than 2000 antiquities over forty years. In this illustrated lecture major works are
examined to explore the development of Freud's taste both in the context of his life and the
central concepts of psychoanalysis.

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