Freud in Focus 4: Episode 1

This week Tom discusses Freud’s lifelong fascination with archaeology and the ancient world with Professor Miriam Leonard (UCL), one of the curators of our current exhibition, 'Freud's Antiquity: Object, Idea, Desire'. 

Ahead of a special in-house theatre workshop on 3 July, Tom is joined by Candida Yates, Mark Leipacher, Roman Gerodimos and Eva Makri to explore Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare’s greatest play, and one that held particular significance for Freud. You can learn more and book a ticket ...  Show more

Sigmund Freud’s ground-breaking techniques and theories for therapy came to be called “psychoanalysis,” and it was embodied, in practice and popular culture, by a single piece of furniture: the couch. Producer Ann Hepperman explores the role of this canonical object in …

In this interview with one of the founders of intersubjective psychoanalysis, Robert Stolorow discusses his interest in Heidegger and the implications of that interest for the psychoanalytic project overall. What do “worldness”, “everydayness”, and “resoluteness” bring to the cli ...  Show more

The Theory of Psychoanalysis by Carl Gustav Jung audiobook. Genre: science In The Theory of Psychoanalysis, Carl Gustav Jung presents a clear, probing set of lectures first delivered in New York in 1912, at the moment when psychoanalysis was rapidly taking shape and Jung was begi ...  Show more

Perhaps most of us interested in psychoanalysis in the United States have the idea that, in 1909, when Freud lectured at Clark University, his first and only visit to this country, the profession was launched. That Freud was perhaps an afterthought to a larger celebration at the ...  Show more