Past Events › Performances
September 2018
Rewind/Fast Forward: Tapes from the Freud Museum
Participants of 'Transcultural Memory' studies at Goldsmiths University respond to the themes of memory, movement and migration.
May 2019
Fully booked – What Does Woman Want?
Performance presentation: pioneer female analysts who challenged Freud’s vision of The feminine
June 2019
Postponed – Freud’s Vienna: Coffee, Café, Cabaret
Coffee morning and talk by Diane Silverthorne
July 2019
Kleptomania Talks: The Plant Cannot Be Kleptocratic by Carol Mavor
A performative lecture, rich with pictures, sound and moving images
August 2019
November 2019
March 2020
Fully booked – You Burn Me
An evening of performance and film marking International Women's Day 2020.
Part of our 'Unheard Voices' season.
September 2020
Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave live at the Freud Museum London
A once in a lifetime opportunity to see two of the country’s most outstanding actors perform in the beautiful garden of Sigmund Freud’s final home.
August 2021
Michael Rosen in Discussion: A Dream of Covid and Recovery
An art and science event with DreamsID, livestreamed from the Freud Museum London.
September 2022
Uneasy Listening: On Hearing and Being Heard
In-house panel discussion with Anouchka Grose and Robert Brewer Young, chaired by Devorah Baum. Complemented by a performance by Matthew Barley.
November 2022
February 2023
SOLD OUT Freud/Lynch book launch: A Twin Peaks Day event
Celebrate the launch of 'Freud/Lynch: Behind the Curtain' with short talks, donuts, damn fine coffee, and a quiz!
March 2023
Marginalia (When did you start having those feelings? She wrote).
In-person International Women's Day Event, with Artists Sharon Young and Sharon Kivland
Book launch: The Science and Art of Dreaming
In-house event with Mark Blagrove and Julia Lockheart of DreamsID, and BBC Radio 4's Marnie Chesterton.
June 2023
Shame in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
A special in-house theatre workshop, organised by The Freud Museum in partnership with Bournemouth University’s Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and Social Justice (CESJ), and The Faction.
September 2023
Freud Film Club Screening: Melancholia (2011)
Join us for an outdoor screening of Lars von Trier's "Melancholia", with a pre-film lecture presented by Mary Wild.
Freud Film Club Screening: Rebecca (1940)
Join us for an outdoor screening of Alfred Hitchcock's incredible adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" (1940), with a pre-film lecture by Mary Wild.
Freud Film Club Screening: The Shining (1980)
Join us for a frightening outdoor screening of Kubrick's iconic "The Shining", with an introductory talk by Mary Wild.
Freud Film Club Screening: Medea (1969)
Join us for a special Freud Film Club screening of Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1969 film "Medea", as part of the 'Tracing Freud on the Acropolis' exhibition programme.
Freud Film Club Screening: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Join us for a spine-chilling outdoor screening of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" in the Museum garden, with a pre-movie talk by Mary Wild.
October 2023
February 2024
Freud’s 4 pm Session: Reinvent Yourself
Exploring psychological insights that will transform your work life, Dr Susan Kahn will give a session on metamorphosis and embracing your reinvention. In-house event only.
Freud’s 4 pm Session: ‘The Fauna of the Night – Auden’s Elegy for Freud’
Poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell will read W. H. Auden’s great elegy ‘In Memory of Sigmund Freud’. In-house event only.