Freud’s 4pm Session: Freud’s British Family
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Freud Museum London
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Freud’s British Family: Reclaiming Lost Lives in Manchester and London
Revealing the complex relationships Manchester businessmen Emanuel and Philip Freud had with their much younger brother Sigmund, Roger Willoughby discusses key themes documented in his new book Freud’s British Family. Their influence, hitherto largely forgotten, impacted on the mental economy of the founder of psychoanalysis, helping shape Freud’s thinking, attitudes, and theorising, including emerging ideas on rivalry, the Oedipus complex, character, and art.
Through this lens, new aspects of Freud’s own story are interwoven, including his formative visits to his brothers and to Britain in 1875 and again in 1908, before concluding with reflections on Freud’s final 15 months in London after he left Nazi Vienna as a refugee. Along the way, Freud is glimpsed with his family in an illuminating and sometimes arresting fashion, which is at the same time always deeply human.
