Lisa Appignanesi on ‘Women & Freud’
The following is an extract from the catalogue to accompany the exhibition Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists held at the Freud Museum London from 30 October 2024 – 5 May 2025.
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’s Final Home Explored: A Young Visitor’s Review of the Freud Museum
Visitors descend on the Freud Museum like pilgrims – from Hamburg to Tel Aviv to Brazil – wanting to pay respects to the ‘father of psychoanalysis’ whose work was so influential across the globe. Entering the house immediately transports you back to the 1930s. The interior design has been immaculately preserved so as not […]
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 […]
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.
Psychoanalysis with Children: a Brief Journey
This blog explores different approaches to child psychoanalysis after Freud.
Celebrating the Revised Standard Edition at the Freud Museum
On Thursday 20th June 2024 we celebrated the publication of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud – a ground-breaking update on the Standard Edition first published 60 years ago, which followed the Hogarth Press first publishing Freud’s work in 1924. We had the honour and pleasure of welcoming to the […]
The Relevance of Psychoanalysis for the Present Day
What was Freud's great discovery, and does it remain relevant to this day? How can we think about Psychoanalysis in the face of so many changes and innovations in the 21st century?
Freud’s Daily Routine
Freud's daily routine was meticulously structured. Understand how Freud organized his time and balanced his professional and personal life.
Hilda and Freud
Hilda and Freud's relationship deepend over time, with Freud eventually considering her both a patient and a student
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