Past Events › Performances
May 2018
Sex, Politics, and Men with Grey/White Beards
A psychoanalyst's hour of comedy for the final weekend of the Solitary Pleasures exhibition.
June 2018
A Weekend of Discontent
Academics, psychotherapists, poets and performers challenge conventional wisdom by engaging with Freud's landmark study Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) to ponder some of the difficult questions it raises and investigate the relevance of Freud's views to our troubled times. What are the discontents of civilised life today?
September 2018
Intraplaces: Dialogues Without Words
Artist Elena Cologni will demonstrate her sculptural work, followed by a discussion with author Susan Buckingham.
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.
