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Françoise Dolto

This blog talks about Françoise Dolto, a French Psychoanalyst and Female Pioneer in Child Psychoanalysis.
Read more to learn about her life and important contributions to the field.

Freud and his soul-searching antiquities

As Ernest Jones (1957) says in his masterly biography of Freud, ‘Freud was all his life engrossed with the great problem of how man came to be man.’ In his lifelong search for an answer to this question, Freud had learned that the human mind and human civilization originated from man’s past experiences and past […]

What is Your ‘Acropolis’?

We deeply appreciate the creativity and thoughtfulness with which our audiences respond to the collections and exhibitions. Their contributions have a transformational effect on us and continuously shape our practice. This summer, our students, community members and visitors were engrossed in the story of Freud’s emotional trip to Athens in 1904, which would haunt him […]

The Body Image Project

We considered the theme of the body image through a psychoanalytic lens, focusing on the fate of the female body in contemporary visual culture.