Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts

On Saturday 29th October 2011, the Freud Museum Public Programme held a one day conference, “Psychotherapy without foundations?” at the Anna Freud Centre, 12 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SH. Podcast 2 of 4 Session 2: Therapeutic Practice Tom Cotton: Laing and ‘the treatment is the way we treat people’ Rhiannon Thomas: Language, experience and misrepresentation: The case of Lola Voss Haya Oakley - Respondent. followed by a group discussion.

On Saturday 29th October 2011, the Freud Museum Public Programme held a one day conference, “Psychotherapy without foundations?” at the Anna Freud Centre, 12 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SH. Podcast 1 of 4 Session 1:  Introduction Del Loewenthal: On the very idea of a therapy without foundations. Robert Hinshelwood - Respondent followed by group discussion.

On Saturday 29th October 2011, the Freud Museum Public Programme held a one day conference, “Psychotherapy without foundations?” at the Anna Freud Centre, 12 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SH. Podcast 1 of 4 Session 1:  Introduction Del Loewenthal: On the very idea of a therapy without foundations. Robert Hinshelwood - Respondent followed by group discussion.

A video introduction to the special event - Victor Ross in conversation with Michael Molnar. On 6 May 1926, at a party in Bergasse 19, Vienna's psychoanalytic establishment turned out to celebrate Sigmund Freud's 70th Birthday. Guests came from far afield: Princess Marie Bonaparte from Paris, Ernest Jones from London, Ernst Simmel from Berlin. Also present were Dorothy Burlingham and Eva Rosenfeld, at that time as close to Anna Freud as a sister and Eva's young son, Victor Ross. 85 years on, Freud scholar and former Freud Museum Director, Michael Molnar talks to Victor Ross about his life and relations to the Freud family. This is a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear recollections from someone who knew the Freud family well, and has personal memories of the Freuds both when they were living in Vienna and at 20 Maresfield Gardens. This talk is part of the Museum’s 25th anniversary programme and was recorded at the Anna Freud Centre on Wednesday 21st September 2011.

A video introduction to the special event - Victor Ross in conversation with Michael Molnar. On 6 May 1926, at a party in Bergasse 19, Vienna's psychoanalytic establishment turned out to celebrate Sigmund Freud's 70th Birthday. Guests came from far afield: Princess Marie Bonaparte from Paris, Ernest Jones from London, Ernst Simmel from Berlin. Also present were Dorothy Burlingham and Eva Rosenfeld, at that time as close to Anna Freud as a sister and Eva's young son, Victor Ross. 85 years on, Freud scholar and former Freud Museum Director, Michael Molnar talks to Victor Ross about his life and relations to the Freud family. This is a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear recollections from someone who knew the Freud family well, and has personal memories of the Freuds both when they were living in Vienna and at 20 Maresfield Gardens. This talk is part of the Museum’s 25th anniversary programme and was recorded at the Anna Freud Centre on Wednesday 21st September 2011.

On 28 September 2011, as part of  the Freud Museum London 25th Anniversary programme, Dr Anthony Hudek gave a fascinating talk which was recorded for this podcast. When, and how, does a house become a museum – a ‘house museum’? How does this passage from one function to another affect the visitor’s experience? Taking Freud’s 1919 text ‘Das Unheimliche’ (‘The Uncanny’) as point of departure, this presentation seeks to identify what subsists, what survives when a house turns into a museum: the ghosts of its former occupants, the archive (once a personal collection of papers, books, memorabilia), and a sense (reassuring or unsettling) of domesticity. But Freud’s text does more than provide a useful guide to what lingers in the house museum, in particular his own. It plays out the paradox of the uncanny: that if the house museum, like the psychoanalytic text, depends on the veracity of its portrayal of the subjective matter it tries to exhibit/expose, it can only do so in the fractured guise of theatre and fiction, lest it fall prey to the very myths and phantasies its stated mission it is to dispel. Dr Antony Hudek, Mellon Research Fellow at University College London, will explore some of the thought provoking issues around how homes, such as the Freud family home at 20 Maresfield Gardens, become museums.

On 28 September 2011, as part of  the Freud Museum London 25th Anniversary programme, Dr Anthony Hudek gave a fascinating talk which was recorded for this podcast. When, and how, does a house become a museum – a ‘house museum’? How does this passage from one function to another affect the visitor’s experience? Taking Freud’s 1919 text ‘Das Unheimliche’ (‘The Uncanny’) as point of departure, this presentation seeks to identify what subsists, what survives when a house turns into a museum: the ghosts of its former occupants, the archive (once a personal collection of papers, books, memorabilia), and a sense (reassuring or unsettling) of domesticity. But Freud’s text does more than provide a useful guide to what lingers in the house museum, in particular his own. It plays out the paradox of the uncanny: that if the house museum, like the psychoanalytic text, depends on the veracity of its portrayal of the subjective matter it tries to exhibit/expose, it can only do so in the fractured guise of theatre and fiction, lest it fall prey to the very myths and phantasies its stated mission it is to dispel. Dr Antony Hudek, Mellon Research Fellow at University College London, will explore some of the thought provoking issues around how homes, such as the Freud family home at 20 Maresfield Gardens, become museums.

Day Conference, Sunday 3 July at the Anna Freud Centre A day of talks and discussion exploring the links between these three great cultural phenomena, and the lessons that can be learned for the 'post-modern' age of today. This is the third of six podcasts highlighting the talks and discussions that took place during the day conference. Podcast 3: Stephen Frosh Psychosocial textuality: Religious identities and textual constructions. Stephen Frosh is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of many books on psychoanalysis and social theory, including Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis (2005), The politics of psychoanalysis (1999), and Psychoanalysis outside the Clinic: Interventions in Psychosocial Studies (2010). His latest book Feelings (2011) is published by Routledge.

Day Conference, Sunday 3 July at the Anna Freud Centre A day of talks and discussion exploring the links between these three great cultural phenomena, and the lessons that can be learned for the 'post-modern' age of today. This is the third of six podcasts highlighting the talks and discussions that took place during the day conference. Podcast 3: Stephen Frosh Psychosocial textuality: Religious identities and textual constructions. Stephen Frosh is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of many books on psychoanalysis and social theory, including Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis (2005), The politics of psychoanalysis (1999), and Psychoanalysis outside the Clinic: Interventions in Psychosocial Studies (2010). His latest book Feelings (2011) is published by Routledge.

Day Conference, Sunday 3 July at the Anna Freud Centre A day of talks and discussion exploring the links between these three great cultural phenomena, and the lessons that can be learned for the 'post-modern' age of today. This is the second of six podcasts highlighting the talks and discussions that took place during the day conference. Podcast 2: Judit Szekacs and Tom Keve Golem et al Judit Szekacs and Tom Keve's abstract: Created out of river mud by mediaeval Rabbis and mystically brought to life by them in order to serve, the Golem has metamorphosed more than once. First myth, then tradition, it became an inspiration to the arts and transmuted itself into a symbol - a metaphor for the individual’s need to control the external world, as well as for his quest for autonomy, identity and protection. It symbolises our mystical past as well our technologically dominated future. It is slave. It is protector. It is shorthand for the creative drive and for both the constructive and destructive aspects of human creation; therefore especially relevant in the 21st century. In our presentations we will discuss historical-cultural aspects of the GOLEM (Tom Keve) and psychoanalytical-clinical dimensions of it.

Day Conference, Sunday 3 July at the Anna Freud Centre A day of talks and discussion exploring the links between these three great cultural phenomena, and the lessons that can be learned for the 'post-modern' age of today. This is the second of six podcasts highlighting the talks and discussions that took place during the day conference. Podcast 2: Judit Szekacs and Tom Keve Golem et al Judit Szekacs and Tom Keve's abstract: Created out of river mud by mediaeval Rabbis and mystically brought to life by them in order to serve, the Golem has metamorphosed more than once. First myth, then tradition, it became an inspiration to the arts and transmuted itself into a symbol - a metaphor for the individual’s need to control the external world, as well as for his quest for autonomy, identity and protection. It symbolises our mystical past as well our technologically dominated future. It is slave. It is protector. It is shorthand for the creative drive and for both the constructive and destructive aspects of human creation; therefore especially relevant in the 21st century. In our presentations we will discuss historical-cultural aspects of the GOLEM (Tom Keve) and psychoanalytical-clinical dimensions of it.

Freud's Collection: Passion, Loss and Recovery Talk by Dr Janine Burke On the 23rd June 2011, Dr Janine Burke, a writer who has written widely on Freud’s life and legacy told through his extraordinary art collection and his life-long obsession with acquiring antiquities returned to the Freud Museum to look again at Freud’s collections, and to reflect on the 25th anniversary celebrations. She discussed the Freuds’ flight from Vienna and the arrival of the family and the antiquities in Maresfield Gardens. She also discussed Anna Freud’s role as the inheritor of the collection and who became its worthy curator and guardian until her death. Janine Burke is the author of The Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection (2006). She curated An Archaeology of the Mind: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection for Monash University and University of Sydney in 2007-2008. Dr Burke is a research fellow of Monash University.

Freud's Collection: Passion, Loss and Recovery Talk by Dr Janine Burke On the 23rd June 2011, Dr Janine Burke, a writer who has written widely on Freud’s life and legacy told through his extraordinary art collection and his life-long obsession with acquiring antiquities returned to the Freud Museum to look again at Freud’s collections, and to reflect on the 25th anniversary celebrations. She discussed the Freuds’ flight from Vienna and the arrival of the family and the antiquities in Maresfield Gardens. She also discussed Anna Freud’s role as the inheritor of the collection and who became its worthy curator and guardian until her death. Janine Burke is the author of The Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection (2006). She curated An Archaeology of the Mind: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection for Monash University and University of Sydney in 2007-2008. Dr Burke is a research fellow of Monash University.

Alice Anderson in Discussion with...Darian Leader, Stephanie Rosenthal and Joanna Walker Artist Alice Anderson, is joined by Darian Leader, Stephanie Rosenthal (Hayward Gallery) and curator Joanna Walker, for an evening discussing themes around her current exhibition Alice Anderson's Childhood Rituals.

Alice Anderson in Discussion with...Darian Leader, Stephanie Rosenthal and Joanna Walker Artist Alice Anderson, is joined by Darian Leader, Stephanie Rosenthal (Hayward Gallery) and curator Joanna Walker, for an evening discussing themes around her current exhibition Alice Anderson's Childhood Rituals.