Exhibitions

The title comes from Freud’s earliest reference to chess in Studies on Hysteria (1893) where he relates the complex, zigzagging, move of the Knight to the twists and turns of the human mind in psychoanalysis.

An exhibition of 11 prints from Freud on Holiday

“Thought is after all nothing but a substitute for a hallucinatory wish …”
Sharon Kivland’s prints above the stairwell at the Freud Museum show us a Rome we have never seen before.

William Cobbing’s solo exhibition ‘Gradiva Project’ at The Freud Museum incorporates new sculpture, installation and video that refer to the Gradiva bas-relief displayed in Freud’s study.

Freud as archaeological literary critic. When the surrealists opened an art gallery in Paris in 1937, they called it Gradiva as a tribute to Freud and his essay ‘Delusions and Dreams in Jensen’s Gradiva’

This exhibition, first shown in 1996, was brought back as a counterpoint to Freud's Wanderlust.

This exhibition on Freud the traveller includes travel paraphernalia drawn from the archive, maps, prints, photographs, letters, post cards, books and objects collected by Freud on his travels.

The word ‘reisemalheurs’ is taken from a letter written by Sigmund Freud to his family while on holiday in Blackpool in 1908.

Paranoia is the terrifying fear of being hurt.
Paranoia is a false accusation pretending to be real.

Polymorphous Perverse, the exhibition by Tim Noble and Sue Webster, illustrates how sexuality and violence influence our perception of reality, turning our world into one of fragmentation, anxiety and horror.

Because psychoanalysis is a serious business, it has become a classic target of cartoonists.