Past Events › Talks
March 2023
Psychoanalysis and the Culture-Breast (3): Performance Art, Amanda Coogan
The final in a series of three public conversations around our experiences with cultural objects
April 2023
Landscapes of Silence
Online author's talk: Hugh Brody in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi
Casual Violence: Mis-understanding, Misogyny, Adolescence, with Nilofer Kaul
Online talk - part of Women and Psychoanalysis - an ongoing series exploring and celebrating psychoanalysis from a female gaze.
May 2023
The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference
Online talk. Author, Dr Dhwani Shah in conversation with Dr Aisha Abbasi
John Forrester’s Freud and Psychoanalysis: Six Introductory Lectures
In-person book launch and drinks reception, with Lisa Appignanesi, Darian Leader and Josh Cohen
June 2023
On Marriage: Devorah Baum in Conversation with Anouchka Grose
Online talk - part of Women and Psychoanalysis
Kaffee & Kuchen with Freud
Join us for a summer coffee morning in Sigmund Freud’s garden!
Enjoy fine Viennese Apfelstrudel and learn about some of the less well-known aspects of Dr Freud: his love of gardens and antiquities
Everyday Monsters: I’m A Fan, Nightbitch and Other Tales of Unease
Online seminar with Davina Quinlivan
July 2023
Primary Paternal Preoccupation, with Michaela Chamberlain
Online talk - part of Women and Psychoanalysis
Ferenczi Dialogues
Symposium and book launch of 'Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe', with authors Raluca Soreanu, Jakob Staberg, Jenny Willner.
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.
Freud Museum Reading Group – The Aetiology of Hysteria
Six-week reading group taking place online.
Psychoanalysis and the politics of climate change
Online symposium with Susie Orbach, Sally Weintrobe and Paul Hoggett, in partnership with the British Psychoanalytic Council.
Kaffee & Kuchen with Freud
Enjoy fine Viennese Apfelstrudel and take a special Behind the Scenes tour of Sigmund Freud’s home.
October 2023
Fashion in the Age of Climate Anxiety
An online discussion between psychoanalyst Anouchka Grose and designer and activist Clare Farrell.
Fratriarchy, with Juliet Mitchell
An in-person event at the Freud Museum to celebrate the publication of Professor Juliet Mitchell’s groundbreaking new book, Fratriarchy.
Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy
An online talk with Alex Monk on his debut publication, followed by a discussion with Marsha Hewitt.
November 2023
Provocations: Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC
Rory Cellan-Jones will be in conversation with the journalist and writer, Erica Wagner. In-House only.
Provocations: Lifescapes – An Evening with Ann Wroe
Ann Wroe will be in conversation with the journalist Rachel Cooke on the subject of life-writing and capturing the soul. In-house only.