SPRING TALKS 2008

Friday 5 September 2008
Salman Akhtar: The Analyst's Office:  
            Reality, Fantasy & Beyond
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Novelist Esther Freud in conversation with John Tydeman

Play readings

Thursday 14th June 2007 at 7.00pm (doors open 6.30 for drinks)
BENJAMIN’S GRIP: PORNOGRAPHY IN THE AGE OF TECHNICAL REPRODUCTION.
A new play by Carl Djerassi
A dramatic reading from Carl Djerassi’s docudrama “Four Jews on Parnassus” dealing with Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Gershom Scholem, and Arnold Schönberg.
Proceeds from the performance benefit the Freud Museum.

Sunday 13 May 2007 at 7.30 (at the Tricycle Theatre)
"DR. FREUD WILL SEE YOU NOW, MRS. HITLER"
A new play by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran
A dramatised reading with Allan Corduner as Dr. Freud, Iain Mitchell as Adolf Hitler and Sophie Winkleman as Anna Freud. 
At the age of six, Adolf Hitler suffered from nightmares. The local doctor recommended a child psychiatrist in Vienna, a young man named Sigmund Freud. Adolf’s father, however, wouldn’t hear of it. But what if.... 
Followed by a discussion with Laurence Marks, Maurice Gran, Professor John Forrester and Lisa Appignanesi 
Proceeds from the performance benefit the Freud Anniversary Fundraising appeal.

Collapse at the Freud Museum
Thursday 21st June 2007 7.00pm
Illustrated talks, reading and discussion for Architecture Week 2007
with Rowena Easton, Greg Daville and Dr Andrea Gilroy. Coordinated by RIBA London. 

Tickets: £12/£6 concessions (including a glass of wine), available from www.connectingconversations.org or at the door

Poet, biographer and novelist Andrew Motion in conversation with Denis Flynn

Novelist Salley Vickers in conversation with Michael Parsons

Biographer Brenda Maddox talks to psychoanalyst Ken Robinson 
Friday 21 September 2007

Novelist Lionel  Shriver talks to Psychoanlyst Angela Joyce
Friday 15th June 7-8.30pm
Venue: The Resource Centre  356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA (Nearest tube Holloway Road) 

Lionel Shriver has a column in the Guardian and is a regular contributor to The Economist and The Wall Street Journal, as well as radio and television.   The Post-Birthday World is Shriver's first novel since the Orange Prize winning  'We Need to Talk about Kevin' and is written with all the perception, originality and drama that she is known for. 
Angela Joyce is a psychoanalyst in private practice. She works on the Parent Infant Project at The Anna Freud Centre. 

Crime Writer Minette Walters talks to Psychoanalyst and Forensic Psychiatrist Cleo Van Velson
Friday 11th  May 2007 7-8.30pm 
Venue: The Henry Thomas Room, 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 (nearest tube Holloway Road, Piccadilly Line) 

Minette Walters has been described as the Queen of British Crime Fiction and her work has been translated into 26 languages. Her first novel THE ICE HOUSE won the CWA John Creasey Award in 1992, her second THE SCULPTRESS won the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the third THE SCOLD'S BRIDLE the CWA Gold Dagger Award.  She lives with her husband and two sons in Dorset and is currently working on her as yet untitled twelfth novel. 
  Dr Cleo Van Velson is an Adult Psychoanalyst and a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy 
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Freud Memorial Lecture
Sunday 8th July 2007 7.30pm

Slavoj Zizek

ON THE AMOROUS ENLIGHTENMENT OF ADULTS

Renowned philosopher and Freud scholar Slavoj Zizek turns his attention to love and sex 
to celebrate the centenary of Freud’s controversial 1907 paper ‘The sexual enlightenment of children’.

Freud Museum Autumn Lecture 
Tuesday 16 October 2007  7pm – 8.30pm 
Hans, Dora and 'the domestic economy of the soul' 
Professor John O'Neill 

John O'Neill is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, a Member of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was Senior Scholar at the Laidlaw Foundation 1993-1994, on the Children at Risk Programme, and is currently working on the political economy of child suffering, welfare state theory and civic practice. 

Thursday 19th April 2007 7.00 pm
Vivienne Koorland
ARTIST’S TALK AND DISCUSSION
The work of the South African, New York based artist Vivienne Koorland evokes the pain and dislocation of
migration and exile, and the dreams and fantasies of that mythical place we call ‘home’. Vivienne Koorland 
talks about her life and work with art historian Mignon Nixon. Doors open 6.30pm. 

Wednesday 25th April 7.00 pm
Michael Molnar 
FREUD’S WANDERLUST
Michael Molnar, director of the Freud Museum and coeditor of Freud’s travel letters (not yet published in
English), explores Freud’s desire for travel and his thoughts on the places he visited as depicted in his 
letters home from Blackpool, London, Rome, Athens, New York and beyond. 

Thursday 3rd May 7.00 pm
Barbara Fletchman Smith
ON SLAVERY’S PSYCHOLOGICAL LEGACIES
To mark the bi-centenary of the Parliamentary abolition of slavery, Barbara Fletchman Smith brings together different strands of what she identifies as a cycle of trans-generational trauma. It is stressed that some people have recovered from the legacy of slavery but that for many, lives are still blighted. Severe anxiety states in African-Carribean boys show themselves in many ways but are met with indifference until the stage where, for example, weaponry is carried for ‘protection’ or where psychotic states predominate. 
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Freud Museum Public Programme 
Freud Museum Artists’ Talks
in conjunction with the PARANOIA exhibition (Jan 10th - March 11th 2007) 
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1856 - 2006
1986 - 2006 
2006 was the 150th Anniversary of Sigmund Freud's Birth 
&
20th Anniversary of the Founding of the Freud Museum London 
Click here for the full listing of Freud Museum events during the anniversary year. 

Understanding Perversion
   Sunday 10 December 2006 
     with Stanley Ruszczynski, David Morgan, Estela
     Welldon, Carine Adler (film maker), and Claire Pajaczkowska
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Freud Museum Friends
Centenary Winter Talks
8 & 15 December 2005
Jokes and their relation to the unconscious
Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria 
(The case of Dora)
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The Good-Enough Winnicott 
A Critical Appreciation of the Life, Legacy, and 
Work of D.W. Winnicott
Saturday 29 October 2005 9.30 - 5.00pm
at University College London 
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Sex Talks: Three Evenings on the Theory of Sexuality
Talks and discussions at the Freud Museum to commemorate the centenary of Freud's Three Essays on Sexuality

Tuesday June 7th 2005.    7.30 pm (doors open 6.30pm)
Penny Siopis
THREE ESSAYS ON SHAME
South African artist Penny Siopis discusses her multi-media installation at the Freud Museum.
Three Essays on Shame uses a series of objects and artworks to explore the psychopolitical
significance of shame, including audio recordings of prominant South African personalities
who have all publicly expressed feelings on or about shame, and the documentary film
To Walk Naked, in which a group of black women use their nakedness and shame as a
weapon of resistance in apartheid South Africa. The exhibition opens June 4th and is curated
by Jennifer Law.

Tuesday June 28th 7.30 pm
Susan Budd
NO SEX PLEASE - WE'RE BRITISH
There is still considerable resistance to Freud's views about the ubiquity and importance of
bodily experience, and the links between childhood and adult sexuality. Psychoanalyst Susan
Budd discusses the continuing relevance of Freud's theories of sexuality and argues that a
false antithesis has been set up between instinct and object relations theory. She suggests
that Freud's notion of a phallic sexuality distinguished from adult genital sexuality is a potent
metaphor for the narcissism of modern life.

Tuesday July 12th 7.30 pm
David Morgan
PERVERSION TODAY
In a world in which perverse sexuality seems to be the staple diet of late night TV, do psychoanalytic
theories of perversion still make sense? Psychoanalyst David Morgan uses his long
experience at the Portman Clinic to discuss the importance of the perversions today - when
perverse behaviour becomes normal.

Therip and the Freud Museum Day Conference
Life Beyond Language: 
The Psychoanalytical Voice 
Saturday 5 March 2005 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 
in the series 
Being a British Psychoanalyst
Juliet Mitchell
 on her life in psychoanalysis, femininity, feminism, 
and her latest work 
in extended conversation with: 
Felicity Dirmeik
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The Freud Museum Public Programme
a new series of one-day conferences on
Psychoanalysis and Other Professions 
Saturday 11 December 9.30 am - 5.00 pm 
Guy's Hospital, London 
Psychoanalysis and midwifery
The first in a series of conferences about how psychoanalytic ideas and therapeutic insight can contribute to other professions (and vice versa!).