When Words are Not Enough: Creative Responses to Grief
Author’s Talk: Jane Harris in conversation with Dr. Kathryn Mannix. This first publication from The Good Grief Project explores the many ways that bereaved families find to express their loss.
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Uneasy Listening: On Hearing and Being Heard
This event celebrates the release of Uneasy Listening: Notes on Listening and Being Heard by two professional listeners: psychoanalyst Anouchka Grose and violin maker Robert Brewer Young. We are honoured to welcome the authors at the Freud Museum to discuss key themes of the book, ranging from psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, contemporary politics, and culture.
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Muriel Gardiner and Her Legacy
In this talk, Dr Birkle will shed light on Gardiner’s medical interests and psychoanalytic circles as well as on her underground activities and her liaison with Joseph Buttinger in 1930s Vienna. We will also look at Lillian Hellman’s rather dubious misrepresentation of Gardiner’s attempts to save the lives of as many (mostly Jewish) people as possible, for which Gardiner received the Austrian Cross of Honor, as “a recognition of [her] dedication to freedom.”
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Coffee Morning with Sigmund Freud and the Surrealists
Bring your morning coffee for this talk on the relationship between Sigmund Freud and the Surrealist group that emerged in Paris in the 1920s. See how figures like Breton, Miró, Tanning, and Dalí were inspired by Freudian theory and the few significant meetings that took place between members and Freud himself.
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Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory
This talk will introduce how psychoanalytic theory has been used to examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a social formation, conceptualizing race, racial identity, and racism in ways that go beyond traditional modes of psychoanalytic thought.
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Losers: An essay about politics, humility, and loss
You are a loser. For psychoanalysis, this isn’t a personal slight, but an impersonal truth. So why have we come to fear losing?
Josh Cohen in conversation with Adam Philips.
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Love, Hate, and Ambivalence
An afternoon of desire, tension, and jouissance, with Patricia Gherovici, Dany Nobus, Carol Owens and Stephanie Swales.
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Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave live at the Freud Museum London
In September 2020, the Freud Museum London were delighted to welcome a thrilling cast of performers to the garden of Sigmund Freud's final home in an evening curated by Vanessa Redgrave.
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Refugees, Migration and Exile: An evening with Vanessa Redgrave at the Freud Museum London
Join legendary actor Vanessa Redgrave, actors Daisy Bevan and Paul Hilton, and Lord Alf Dubs on screen, for an evening of discussion, performance and readings on the theme of refugees, migration and exile.
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Analysis and Exile: Peter Heller and the early history of child psychoanalysis
A special online event marking Anna Freud’s birthday 2022. Analysis and Exile: Boyhood, Loss and the Lessons of Anna Freud provides an intimate perspective on a turning point in history. Vivian Heller tells the story of her father, Peter Heller, a young Viennese boy who suffers from night terrors in 1929.
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The Autistic Subject – On the Threshold of Language
Author Dr Leon Brenner in discussion with Dr Henrik Lynggaard. Dr. Brenner’s book comes to make a case for the relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the understanding and treatment of autism.
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The Cure for Psychoanalysis
Author Adam Philips in Conversation with Lisa Appignanesi. The book contains two brilliant essays by one of the foremost thinkers in the field of psychoanalysis.
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The Empire of Depression: A New History
Online with author Jonathan Sadowsky. Why does depressive illness seem so common now? Are there really more depressed people, or are we renaming various forms of personal stress as “depression”? Was the “melancholia” of earlier times a name for depression, or a distinct illness?
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The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
Watch psychoanalyst, neuropsychologist and author, Mark Solms as he discusses his latest publication, The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness with psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, writer and social critic, Susie Orbach.
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History of Psychoanalysis in Latin America
On Demand talk by psychoanalyst and author Mariano Ruperthuz. This talk focuses on the recovery of some aspects of the social and cultural history of psychoanalysis in Latin America during the first half of the 20th century.
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The Psychological Effects of Racism
In this talk Ivan Ward uses his own experience and that of others to show how psychoanalytic theories can help us understand the experience and psychological effects of racism.
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Some Thoughts on the Pandemic, with Darian Leader
Join psychoanalyst Darian Leader, as he explores how psychoanalysis can shed light on some aspects of individual and social responses to the pandemic.
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How Freud would have handled the Coronavirus, with Brett Kahr
Join Professor Brett Kahr as he delivers a unique talk about what we might learn from the genius of Sigmund Freud and how that might help us through this extremely challenging period of world history.
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The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
Online talk. Lisa Appignanesi in conversation with author, Noga Arikha.
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Turning Within: Psychoanalysis and Buddhism for Times of Turmoil
An online event with Buddhist Monk, Gelong Thubten and Psychotherapist, Mark Epstein.
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The ‘Entanglement’ Between Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Chinese Thought
Special online lecture with Professor Wu Guanjun, as part of the 'Freud and China' exhibition programme.
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Psychoanalytic Insights into Sexuality and Trauma
Originally broadcast: 20 Nov, 2023
Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou in discussion with Dr. Lakshmi Padmanabhan about her groundbreaking book Sexuality Beyond Consent.
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Every Family Has A Story: How we inherit love and loss
Join Author and psychotherapist, Julia Samuels as she discusses her latest publication, Every Family Has A Story: How we inherit love and loss, with psychoanalyst and Author, Stephen Grosz.
What predicts family breakdown? Why do our families drive us mad? What is it the enables some families to thrive despite enormous adversity, when others fragment?
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From the Library of Sigmund Freud: The Works of Lord Byron
Prof. Dany Nobus in conversation with Byron scholar Dr Christine Kenyon-Jones, on the subject of Sigmund Freud as a reader of Lord Byron.
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From The Library of Sigmund Freud: Delusions and Dreams in Jensen’s “Gradiva”
Prof. Daniel Orrells and Research Manager Tom DeRose discuss one of the most important examples of Freud’s passion for archaeology from his library: W. Jensen's "Gradiva”.
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Fashion in the Age of Climate Anxiety
Watch this talk between Anouchka Grose and Clare Farrell that will explore the idea of fashion as a symptom — both personal and social — at the same time as considering its anti-hierarchical, hyper-social possibilities.
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What Does the App Want? A psychoanalytic reading of dating apps
In this talk, Carolina Bandinelli and Arturo Bandinelli will take dating apps as a case study to tackle the question of desire in neoliberal digital societies.
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What’s That Smell?: A Philosophy of the Olfactory
This online talk marks the launch of Simon Hajdini’s latest book 'What’s That Smell?: A Philosophy of the Olfactory'.
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Milton & Freud: Adam Phillips interviews Joe Moshenska
Watch this special event, in which the Freud Museum and Milton’s Cottage welcome psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips to interview Professor Joe Moshenska on John Milton and Sigmund Freud.
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On Marriage: Devorah Baum in Conversation with Anouchka Grose
Join author Devorah Baum in this online talk as she discusses her book, 'On Marriage', with psychoanalyst and author, Anouchka Grose.
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Princess Marie Bonaparte: Friendship, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism
Watch this panel discussion chaired by Shilyh Warren, which explores and celebrates Bonaparte’s notable contributions to psychoanalysis, feminism, and the science of sexuality.
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Freud, Wagner and Reik: From the Oceanic to Oedipus
Online presentation with audio and video examples, with Tom DeRose.
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Greek Tragedy and the Freudian Death Drive: Spectral Presences
An online event that marked the opening of the 'Freud's Antiquity: Object, Idea, Desire' exhibition, with Professor Paul Allen Miller and Professor Mario Telò.
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Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia
George Makari in conversation with Brett Kahr.
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Contemporary Grief and Mourning: perspectives on the experience of partner loss
A discussion between Juliet Rosenfeld and Sasha Bates, chaired by Prof. Brett Kahr.
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In a Human Voice: Carol Gilligan in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi
Carol Gilligan in an online discussion with Lisa Appignanesi about her new book, In a Human Voice
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Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Freud
Barbara Creed is in conversation with Perry Hughes to discuss her concept of the monstrous-feminine.
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The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State
Shaul Bar-Haim and Lisa Appignanesi discuss his latest publication, The Maternalists, chaired by Daniel Pick.