Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists

Location

Freud Museum
20 Maresfield Gardens
Hampstead
London
NW3 5SX

Description

This exhibition runs from Wednesday 30th October 2024 to Monday 5th May 2025.


An exhibition that highlights the women who helped Freud invent psychoanalysis and their legacy in its practice - as well as in the arts and literature through to our own time.

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From the early “hysterics”, who Freud called ‘his teachers’, to later patients, many of whom like Princesse Marie Bonaparte became analysts, to his daughter Anna Freud and her partner Dorothy Burlingham, to artists such as Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Louise Bourgeois, Paula Rego, Alice Anderson and Tracey Emin, the exhibition draws on manuscripts, images, objects, visuals, and film footage to bring to life the many women who featured in Freud’s history, as well as those affected by his considerable body of thinking, rethinking and practice .
Legendary Hogarth Press

2024 also marks the 100th anniversary of the first publication of Sigmund’s Freud’s work by the legendary Hogarth Press, founded and owned by Virginia and Leonard Woolf and a key feature in Bloomsbury life.

The exhibition celebrates the establishment of the Press alongside Bloomsbury Freud. Virginia and Leonard Woolf met Freud in his last year in London. Several of Freud’s British women analysands (and later analysts) worked on the translation that eventually became the Standard Edition of the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud – amongst them the remarkable Joan Riviere and Alix Strachey, who also laboured as a typesetter (and ‘secretaire’) at the Hogarth Press.
Throughout the Museum

Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists will stretch through the Museum’s many rooms, beginning with interventions on the ground floor, featuring Freud’s family, his female goddesses and Gradiva – the inspiration of the ‘cure through love’.

Drawing on Appignanesi and Forrester’s book, Freud’s Women, the exhibition sets up a dialectic between Freud’s understanding of women and their understanding of themselves which can work both as resistance to and development of psychoanalytic thinking – and also sometimes as its rejection.

Prices

Standard Ticket: £14.50

Contact and Booking Details

More information at this website.

Upcoming Dates

This exhibition runs from Wednesday 30th October 2024 to Monday 5th May 2025.

Forthcoming dates:

Fri 14th Feb 2025 
(10:30am to 5:00pm)
Sat 15th Feb 2025 
(10:30am to 5:00pm)
Sun 16th Feb 2025 
(10:30am to 5:00pm)
Mon 17th Feb 2025 
(10:30am to 5:00pm)
Wed 19th Feb 2025 
(10:30am to 5:00pm)
Thu 20th Feb 2025 
(10:30am to 5:00pm)
Fri 21st Feb 2025 
(10:30am to 5:00pm)
Sat 22nd Feb 2025 
(10:30am to 5:00pm)

Disclaimer

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All images are supplied by the exhibition organiser.

Freud Museum
20 Maresfield Gardens
Hampstead
London
NW3 5SX

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