Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts

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Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts episodes:

04.12.2024
Freud in Focus 5: Episode 3
In this episode, Tom welcomes back Jamie Ruers to the programme, and they discuss the current Freud Museum exhibition Freud and Latin America, which she curated.
03.08.2024
Freud in Focus 5: Episode 2
In the episode, Tom is joined by Professor Roman Gerodimos, Professor Candida Yates, and Mark Leipacher of The Faction, who reflect on an event held at the Freud Museum which explored the theme of Shame in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
02.16.2024
Freud in Focus 5: Episode1
In this episode Tom is in conversation with Marina Maniadaki about how Freud’s famous letter to Romain Rolland, entitled a ‘Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis’, inspired her curation of our recent exhibition Tracing Freud on the Acropolis.
01.10.2024
Freud in Focus 4: Episode 6
In the final part of series 4 of the Freud in Focus podcast, Tom and Jamie discuss the enduring legacy of Freud’s paper, ‘Delusion and Dream in Jensen’s Gradiva’.
10.11.2023
Freud in Focus 4: Episode 5
In this episode of ‘Freud in Focus’, Jamie and Tom continue to discuss Freud’s retelling of Jensen’s Gradiva.
09.27.2023
7. Exhibition Room
The exhibition room has displayed contemporary art exhibitions for over 30 years. The museum’s reputation for innovative, exciting shows has seen collaborations with artists such as Mark Wallinger, Alice Anderson, Louise Bourgeois, Gavin Turk and more. Displayed here is the...
08.02.2023
Freud in Focus 4: Episode 4
In this episode of ‘Freud in Focus’, Jamie and Tom continue to discuss Freud’s retelling of Jensen’s Gradiva.
06.28.2023
Freud in Focus 4: Episode 3
In this episode of ‘Freud in Focus’, Tom and Jamie will be discussing Freud’s first full-scale analysis of a literary text, the charming and summery, ‘Delusion and Dream in Jensen’s Gradiva’.
05.24.2023
Freud in Focus 4: Episode 2
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'.
04.27.2023
Freud in Focus 4: Episode 1
This week Tom and Jamie discuss Freud's ‘Constructions in Analysis’ (1937). This was his final completed paper on psychoanalytic technique, in which he compares psychoanalysis to archaeology. This episode is an exploration of the ideas in our current exhibition, 'Freud's Antiquity:...
10.05.2022
Freud in Focus - Summer Shorts: On Transience
To help usher in the autumn season, Tom and Jamie discuss Freud’s beautiful short paper ‘On Transience’ (1916) in the final episode of the Freud in Focus, Summer Shorts series. Producer: Karolina Heller
08.17.2022
Freud in Focus - Summer Shorts: Humour
In this episode of Freud in Focus, Summer Shorts, Jamie and Tom discuss Freud’s 1927 paper entitled ‘Humour’. Producer: Karolina Heller
08.03.2022
Freud in Focus - Summer Shorts: Creative Writers and Daydreaming
In our new series of Freud in Focus, entitled Summer Shorts, Jamie and Tom will be discussing some of Freud's shorter, lighter papers. The first text under the microscope is 'Creative Writers and Daydreaming' (1908). Producer: Karolina Heller
05.25.2022
Freud in Focus 3: Bonus Episode
In part five of our new podcast series Jamie and Tom discuss the last chapter of Civilisation and its Discontents, in which Freud offers his final thoughts on the place of the individual in society. Producer: Karolina Heller
04.13.2022
Freud in Focus 3: Episode 5
In part five of our new podcast series Jamie and Tom discuss the last chapter of Civilisation and its Discontents, in which Freud offers his final thoughts on the place of the individual in society. Producer: Karolina Heller
04.04.2022
Freud in Focus 3: Episode 4
In part four of our new podcast series Jamie and Tom discuss the sixth and seventh chapters of Civilisation and its Discontents, in which Freud recounts the history of instinct theory, and explores the origin of the sense of guilt. Producer: Karolina...
03.16.2022
Freud in Focus 3: Episode 3
In part three of our new podcast series Jamie and Tom discuss the forth and fifth chapters of Civilisation and its Discontents, in which Freud discusses the origins of society, writes two extraordinary footnotes, and introduces a new factor into...
03.02.2022
Freud in Focus 3: Episode 2
In part two of our new podcast series Jamie and Tom discuss the second and third chapters of Civilisation and its Discontents, where Freud extends his critique of religion and discusses the techniques available to help deal with human suffering. Producer: Karolina...
02.16.2022
Freud in Focus 3: Episode 1
In part one of our new podcast series Jamie and Tom discuss the first chapter of Civilisation and its Discontents, looking at Freud’s analysis of the ‘oceanic feeling’, and the famous archaeological metaphor of the mind. Producer: Karolina Heller
10.20.2021
Freud in Focus 2: Bonus Episode
To close our Uncanny series, we are bringing you a special bonus episode from our archive. In a live lecture originally delivered at the Freud Museum in January 2020, Dr Aaron Balick looks at deepfakes, artificial intelligence, and social media...
10.06.2021
Freud in Focus 2: Episode 4
In this final episode exploring The Uncanny, Tom and Jamie look at the impact Freud's paper had on literature and the arts. Our hosts also reflect upon the Freud Museum's 2019 exhibition The Uncanny: A Centenary. Producer: Karolina Heller
09.22.2021
Freud in Focus 2: Episode 3
In this episode, Tom and Jamie will look at the third and final Part of Freud's The Uncanny, where Freud concludes by differentiating the uncanny in literature to real-life experiences. Producer: Karolina Heller
09.08.2021
Freud in Focus 2: Episode 2
In this episode, Tom and Jamie will be looking at part 2 of Freud’s paper The Uncanny, in which Freud delves into the wonderful world of Hoffmann’s ‘The Sandman’ and discusses doubles, hauntings and inexplicable repetitions in his search for...
08.25.2021
Freud in Focus 2: Episode 1
In the first episode, Tom and Jamie will introduce Freud's 1919 paper The Uncanny. We will look closely at the unusual structure of the first section in this 3-part essay. Producer: Karolina Heller
04.14.2021
Freud in Focus: Episode 5
In the fifth and final instalment of our new podcast series, Tom will be joined by Emilia Raczkowska, the Freud Museum’s Education and Outreach Manager, to discuss how psychoanalysis has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. Producer: Karolina Heller
03.31.2021
Freud in Focus: Episode 4
In this episode, Jamie Ruers is in conversation with the Freud Museum's curator, Bryony Davies. They will discuss the forthcoming exhibition '1920/2020: Freud in Pandemic', which addresses the parallels between Freud's experience with the Spanish Flu and the COVID-19 pandemic today. Producer: Karolina...
03.17.2021
Freud in Focus: Episode 3
In the third episode of our new podcast series, we’ll be looking at the final two chapters of Beyond the Pleasure Principle and tracing the emergence of Freud’s New Dual Instinct Theory, and his introduction of the Death Drive. Producer: Karolina Heller
03.03.2021
Freud in Focus: Episode 2
In the second part of our new podcast series we’ll be diving into the central part of the text, in which Freud discusses the ‘compulsion to repeat’. We’ll also be focussing on the concept of Speculation in Freud’s work, and...
02.17.2021
Freud in Focus: Episode 1
In the first part of our new podcast series, we’ll be exploring the historical context of Freud’s ground-breaking work ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’, and discussing some of the prominent themes arising from the first 2 chapters, including Freud’s famous account...
02.03.2021
Freud in Focus: Pilot
The Freud Museum London is launching a brand new podcast called ‘Freud in Focus’ which will look in-depth at some of Freud’s key texts in a discussion format. The series will be presented by Tom DeRose and Jamie Ruers. In the...
07.29.2020
7. Exhibition Room - Audio Guide
The exhibition room has displayed contemporary art exhibitions for over 30 years. The museum’s reputation for innovative, exciting shows has seen collaborations with artists such as Mark Wallinger, Alice Anderson, Louise Bourgeois, Gavin Turk and more. Displayed here is the...
07.29.2020
6. Anna Freud Room - Audio Guide
This room is dedicated to the life and work of Sigmund Freud’s youngest daughter Anna. In the glass case to your left as you enter there is a small biographical exhibit. At the back you can see a picture frame...
07.29.2020
5. Landing - Audio Guide
On either side of the door on the top landing hang two more portraits of Freud. They show him through the eyes of two artists – and reveal two different attitudes towards him.
07.29.2020
4. Half Landing - Audio Guide
As you climb the stairs you will probably pause on the half landing. This was where Freud’s wife Martha and her sister Minna loved to sit at their needlework, looking out onto the street.
07.29.2020
3. Study - Audio Guide
An audio guide to Sigmund Freud’s study. The desk at the centre of the room was the focus of Freud’s life and work. It is so crowded that there hardly seems space for his papers. Freud chose to work face...
07.29.2020
2. Hall - Audio Guide
Freud and his family arrived in England in June 1938 as refugees. He was an old man, with heart problems and cancer of the jaw, and had not wanted to leave Austria where he had lived his entire life. But...
07.29.2020
1. Dining Room - Audio Guide
An audio guide to the Freud family dining room. This is where the family gathered together and in the case of the Freuds that was always an extended and changing family.
06.30.2020
Fratriarchy, with Juliet Mitchell
The Freud Museum is delighted to welcome Professor Juliet Mitchell to celebrate her latest publication Fratriarchy: The Sibling Trauma and the Law of the Mother (Routledge, 2023). On stage with Juliet Mitchell is Holly Porter, an anthropologist and associate director of...
06.30.2020
Daddy Issues - Katherine Angel in conversation with Josh Cohen
In the wake of #MeToo, we have begun to talk more openly about the widespread harm inflicted by men on women. But little has been said about the fact that many of these men are also fathers. Join author Katherine Angel...
06.25.2020
Author’s talk: Alenka Zupančič - What is Sex?
In What is Sex?, Alenka Zupančič approaches the question of sexuality from a Lacanian perspective, considering it a properly philosophical problem for psychoanalysis. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, Zupančič argues that sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between...
06.20.2020
Sharon Kivland: The Missed Encounter
...a disappointment, an ear, and a snail.
06.15.2020
Anouchka Grose: Narcissism, Censorship and the Unconscious
This paper explores Freud and Dalí’s rather different ideas about censorship. Starting with their comically perplexing meeting, it will also look at the myth of the ‘crazy artist’ in the context of Freud’s ideas about the unconscious and narcissism.
06.10.2020
Everyday Madness: Lisa Appignanesi in conversation with Adam Phillips
Lisa Appignanesi discusses her new book, Everyday Madness: on Grief, Anger, Loss and Love (September 2018) with Adam Phillips. ‘The small translucent bottle of shampoo outlived him. It was the kind you take home from hotels in distant places. For over...
06.05.2020
Class and Psychoanalysis
Joanna Ryan in discussion with Barry Watt What does psychoanalysis have to say about the emotional landscapes of class, the hidden injuries and disavowed privileges? How does class figure in clinical work and what part does it play in psychotherapeutic trainings?...
05.30.2020
The Not-Two: Logic and God in Lacan - Lorenzo Chiesa
In The Not-Two, Lorenzo Chiesa examines the treatment of logic and God in Lacan’s later work. Chiesa draws for the most part from Lacan’s Seminars of the early 1970s, as they revolve around the axiom "There is no sexual relationship." Chiesa provides...
05.25.2020
In Writing: Adam Phillips in conversation with Josh Cohen
In his latest publication In Writing acclaimed psychoanalyst and writer, Adam Phillips celebrates the art of close reading and asks what it is to defend literature in a world that is increasingly devaluing language in this enjoyable collection of essays on...
05.20.2020
Freud’s ’Three Essays’ and the Critique of Heteronormativity
Re-reading Freud's 1905 edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality This book presentation is devoted to the newly translated and annotated English edition of Freud’s 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Verso, 2016).Freud’s publication is one of...
05.15.2020
Lacan on Love: An Interview with Bruce Fink
Lacanian psychoanalyst Bruce Fink discusses his latest work, Lacan on Love. Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us...
05.10.2020
Conceptualising and Treating Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective - Stijn Vanheule
Starting from the hypothesis that psychosis makes up a structure, with a precise status for the unconscious, Stijn Vanheule explores how, from a Lacanian point of view, the treatment of psychosis is organized. Special attention is paid to the specificity...
05.05.2020
A Consumer’s Guide to Therapy
Professor Brett Kahr in Conversation with Dan Chambers What actually happens in psychotherapy? And does it really work? Psychotherapy has become a mainstay of our emotional wellbeing, and yet, in spite of its century-long track record, many people still regard “therapy” with...

What's Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts episodes:

Freud in Focus 5: Episode 3

Freud in Focus 5: Episode 2

Freud in Focus 5: Episode1

Freud in Focus 4: Episode 6

Freud in Focus 4: Episode 5

7. Exhibition Room

Freud in Focus 4: Episode 4

Freud in Focus 4: Episode 3

Freud in Focus 4: Episode 2

Freud in Focus 4: Episode 1

Freud in Focus - Summer Shorts: On Transience

Freud in Focus - Summer Shorts: Humour

Freud in Focus - Summer Shorts: Creative Writers and Daydreaming

Freud in Focus 3: Bonus Episode

Freud in Focus 3: Episode 5

Freud in Focus 3: Episode 4

Freud in Focus 3: Episode 3

Freud in Focus 3: Episode 2

Freud in Focus 3: Episode 1

Freud in Focus 2: Bonus Episode

Freud in Focus 2: Episode 4

Freud in Focus 2: Episode 3

Freud in Focus 2: Episode 2

Freud in Focus 2: Episode 1

Freud in Focus: Episode 5

Freud in Focus: Episode 4

Freud in Focus: Episode 3

Freud in Focus: Episode 2

Freud in Focus: Episode 1

Freud in Focus: Pilot

7. Exhibition Room - Audio Guide

6. Anna Freud Room - Audio Guide

5. Landing - Audio Guide

4. Half Landing - Audio Guide

3. Study - Audio Guide

2. Hall - Audio Guide

1. Dining Room - Audio Guide

Fratriarchy, with Juliet Mitchell

Daddy Issues - Katherine Angel in conversation with Josh Cohen

Author’s talk: Alenka Zupančič - What is Sex?

Sharon Kivland: The Missed Encounter

Anouchka Grose: Narcissism, Censorship and the Unconscious

Everyday Madness: Lisa Appignanesi in conversation with Adam Phillips

Class and Psychoanalysis

The Not-Two: Logic and God in Lacan - Lorenzo Chiesa

In Writing: Adam Phillips in conversation with Josh Cohen

Freud’s ’Three Essays’ and the Critique of Heteronormativity

Lacan on Love: An Interview with Bruce Fink

Conceptualising and Treating Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective - Stijn Vanheule

A Consumer’s Guide to Therapy