Sigmund Freud’s Couch ©Freud Museum London
Details
The family home of the Freud family was turned into a museum in 1982 to display Sigmund Freud’s wide-ranging collections of antiquities, furniture, including his famous couch, textiles, ceramics, prints and paintings, as well as many unique documents relating to Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna and the history of psychoanalysis.
Venue
Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens, London NW3 5SX
Event Organisers
Sarah Bowles and Philippa Barton
Cost
Cost of the visit is £52 - plus Eventbrite booking fee
The visit is limited to fourteen
Programme
10.30am
Coffee
11.00am
Visit to the Freud Museum and exhibition Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists with Giuseppe Albano, Director, Freud Museum
Celebrated as the founder of psychoanalysis and one of the foremost intellectuals of the day, Sigmund Freud escaped Nazi-ruled Austria, arriving in London with his family in June 1938 and moved into 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead where he spent the last year of his life. The house remained the family home until the death in 1982 of his daughter, Anna Freud, herself a pioneer of child psychoanalysis, and was converted into a museum at her request. The fascinating exhibition Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists draws on manuscripts, images, objects, and film footage to bring to life the many women who featured in Freud’s work, from the early ‘hysterics’, who Freud called his ‘teachers’, to later patients, many of whom such as Princess Marie Bonaparte, became analysts, as well as others who were affected by his considerable body of thinking and practice .