Past Events › Talks
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 2021
Spells: The Figure of the Witch in Cinema
Part of F for Flânerie: A Series of Seminars on Film, with Davina Quinlivan
An evening with Vanessa Redgrave and Alf Dubs
A special evening to launch the new exhibition Code Name Mary: The Extraordinary Life of Muriel Gardiner.
October 2021
November 2021
Letting go: My Proposal of a ‘Detachment Theory’ and its Clinical Usefulness
With distinguished psychoanalyst, poet, and writer, Salman Akhtar, MD
Why have there been no great (Jewish) women artists?
Memory and Erasure Vienna-London 1930s-1980s.
An online symposium.
The Autistic Subject – On the Threshold of Language
Webinar with author Dr Leon Brenner, in discussion with Dr Henrik Lynggaard.
December 2021
Losers: An essay about politics, humility, and loss
Josh Cohen in conversation with Adam Philips
January 2022
Turning towards Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century: A Tribute to André Green (Cairo, 1927- Paris, 2012)
A Bilingual Event – English/French with real-time translation, with Litza Guttieres-Green, Fernando Urribarri, Rosine Perelberg, Jean-Claude Rolland, Steven Jaron & Howard Levine.
Contemporary Grief and Mourning – perspectives on the experience of partner loss
With authors and psychotherapists, Sasha Bates and Juliet Rosenfeld, chaired by Professor Brett Kahr.
Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia
George Makari in conversation with Brett Kahr
Muriel Gardiner and Her Legacy
Online lecture with Prof Dr Carmen Birkle, in honour of Holocaust Memorial Day.
February 2022
Psychoanalysis Under Nazi Occupation: The Origins, Impact and Influence of the Berlin Institute
A panel discussion with author Laura Sokolowsky, featuring Scott Wilson, Colin Wright, translators Janet Rachel and John Haney.and Clementine Benard.
The Confucian Freud
Bingham Dai, Chinese Culture, and the Science of Transcultural Psychoanalysis.
Online lecture with Professor Howard Chiang
Sigmund Freud, Tele-Analyst
Webinar with Hannah Zeavin, author of The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy.
March 2022
The Sea, The Medusa and Female Mental Health in Literature and Cinema
Part of F for Flânerie: A Series of Seminars on Film, with Davina Quinlivan
Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan
Online author’s talk: Sergio Benvenuto in conversation with Dany Nobus
The ‘Entanglement’ Between Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Chinese Thought
Special online lecture with Professor Wu Guanjun, as part of the 'Freud and China' exhibition programme.
April 2022
Coffee Morning with Sigmund Freud and the Surrealists
Morning lecture, taking place online, as part of the BBC Festival, Art That Made Us.
June 2022
July 2022
Freud on Dreams
An introduction to Freud’s theory of dreams and his method for interpreting them, by Education Manager Stefan Marianski.
This event is taking place online.
Postponed – Everybody: A Book About Freedom
In-person event - Olivia Laing in conversation with Josh Cohen
Cancelled: F for Flânerie: The Spell of The Senses
A seminar exploring Ecology, Consciousness, Dreams in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, with Davina Quinlivan.
