A lecture by Giuseppe Albano
Sigmund Freud’s fascination with Italy—a country he visited some twenty-four times throughout his adult life—flourished during a pivotal period of his life and career. It was in Rome in 1896 that Freud, aged 40, acquired his first antique object, marking the beginning of an obsession with collecting that would dominate the second half of his life. In the same year the term ‘psycho-analysis’ appeared in print for the first time in a paper by Freud.
Freud’s trips to Italy (and in particular to Tuscany) in the 1890s provided moments of reflection and aesthetic inspiration, shaping his evolving theories and deepening his obsession with the ancient world. This talk by the Director of the Freud Museum in London, explores how these experiences intersected with key developments in Freud’s thinking, the onset of his compulsive collecting, and the emergence of psychoanalysis.
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This lecture is sponsored by Bernadette Delaney