Freud Museum London

Upcoming events at Freud Museum London

Freud Museum London is a museum in Belsize. Near Here currently lists 14 upcoming events, including Dorothy Burlingham, una nuova vita con la psicoanalisi: piu di 50anni di lavoro all’avanguardia con Anna Freud, Tour: Freud and Leonora Carrington – The language of symptoms and Celebrating the Freud Museum London's 40th Anniversary.

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Dorothy Burlingham, una nuova vita con la psicoanalisi: piu di 50anni di lavoro all’avanguardia con Anna Freud

Nata a New York, Dorothy Burlingham scelse un percorso diverso, allontanandosi dalla sua vita precedente per dedicarsi alla psicoanalisi. Nel 1925 si trasferì a Vienna, dove lavorò a stretto contatto con Anna Freud, e nel 1938 si stabilì a Londra. Qui collaborò con Anna Freud allo sviluppo della psicoanalisi infantile, dedicando la propria vita alla comprensione e al sostegno dei bambini. QUESTO TOUR SERÀ CONSEGNATO IN ITALIANO Incluso nel biglietto d’ingresso This tour will be in Italian. Complement your visit to the Freud Museum with one of our tours or talks led by staff, volunteers and guest speakers. The tours are free with your admission ticket.

Thu 23 Jul15:00Freud Museum London

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Tour: Freud and Leonora Carrington – The language of symptoms

This tour explores Freud’s theory of symptom formation in reference to our special exhibition, Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal The tours are free with your admission ticket.

Fri 24 Jul15:00Freud Museum London

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Celebrating the Freud Museum London's 40th Anniversary

H.R.H. Princess Alexandra unveiling a commemorative plaque at the official opening of the Freud Museum on 28 July 1986. To mark the Freud Museum London’s 40th Anniversary, we warmly invite you to join us for a special afternoon celebration at the Museum, hosted by our Director, Anna Jobson. The Freud Museum opened its doors on 28 July 1986 and has since welcomed visitors from around the world to explore the remarkable story of Sigmund and Anna Freud’s final home. Four decades later, we are delighted to celebrate this important milestone with our visitors, members, patrons and everyone who has been part of the Museum’s story over the past forty years. At 1:00pm we will start our 40th-anniversary celebrations with an exclusive, behind-the-scenes exploration of the house with our Director of Education, Emilia Raczkowska. Join us for a closer look at Freud’s magnificent collection of art and over 2,000 antiquities, which the father of psychoanalysis began when he was 40 years old. Tour Sigmund and Anna’s ‘last address on this planet’ and discover how psychoanalytic ideas are reflected in the materiality of Freud’s own study. At 2.00pm, Anna Jobson, Director of the Freud Museum, will welcome guests to a celebratory anniversary cake cutting. Join us for this memorable anniversary celebration and help us mark forty years of preserving, sharing and exploring the enduring legacy of Sigmund and Anna Freud.

Tue 28 Jul14:00Freud Museum London

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Freud's Afternoon Session - Screening of 'Leonora Carrington: The Lost Surrealist'

As part of our programme of events to celebrate our exhibition ‘Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal‘, join us at the Freud Museum for a screening of ‘Leonora Carrington: The Lost Surrealist’ (2017) directed by Teresa Griffiths. About the film: British Surrealist Leonora Carrington rubbed shoulders with the greats of the Surrealist movement during its heyday in Paris and yet, until recently, remained a virtual unknown in the country of her birth. This film explores her dramatic evolution from British debutante to artist in exile, living out her days in Mexico City. The film takes us on a journey into her darkly strange and cinematic world. _______________________________________________________________________ Complement your visit to the Freud Museum with one of our tours or talks led by staff, volunteers and guest speakers. The talks are free with your admission ticket. Book your admission ticket now! The event will be held on the first floor of the Museum during regular opening hours. Unfortunately, the Freud Museum does not currently have step-free access. Advance booking is highly recommended, as capacity is limited. Concessions/Members/Patrons: Please show proof of eligibility/membership card on arrival.

Wed 29 Jul16:00Freud Museum London

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Freudian Research Seminar – The Ego Is Not Master in Its Own House: Levinas, Freud, and the Ethical Unhousing of Oedipus

All registrants will receive their link to join via ZOOM. Attendees will also receive access to the recording on the Monday after the event, available to watch back for 3 months. ________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: This paper stages a psychoanalytic and phenomenological encounter between Freud and Levinas through a rereading of Oedipus Tyrannus. Beginning from Freud’s foundational claim that the tragedy externalizes the unconscious—the myth of Oedipus as “our own” primal scene—it interrogates how this reading has paradoxically dulled the ethical force of the play through mythologization. Drawing on what André Green calls “cultural immunity” to Oedipus, I argue that the familiarity of Freud’s interpretation has obscured a more disturbing dimension: not unconscious wish but ethical vulnerability. Through a close analysis of Jocasta’s rationalization of dreams and Oedipus’ final farewell to his daughters, the paper offers a Levinasian interpretation that shifts the focus from desire and repression to trauma, substitution, and infinite responsibility. In this reading, Oedipus is not merely the bearer of a repressed wish but the subject un-homed by an ethical demand he neither willed nor understood.

Thu 30 Jul19:00Freud Museum London

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History & Heritage

Tour: Freud and Leonora Carrington – The language of symptoms

This tour explores Freud’s theory of symptom formation in reference to our special exhibition, Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal The tours are free with your admission ticket.

Fri 31 Jul15:00Freud Museum London

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IN PERSON – Territorial Listening, with Emília Estivalet Broide & Jorge Broide

This ticket is for IN-HOUSE access to this event. ________________________________________________________________________ The Freud Museum is delighted to host the book launch of ‘Territorial Listening and Psychoanalysis in Critical Social Situations: Building Clinical Dispositifs’, edited by Brazilian psychoanalysts Emília Estivalet Broide and Jorge Broide (1968 Press, 2026, The Important Little Books in Psychoanalysis Series, in English translation from Portuguese). This evening symposium dedicated to the book (6:00pm – 9:00pm), with the presence of the editors and many of the contributors (members of the collective Rede SUR), is available both in person and online. It will be followed by a wine reception (9pm – 10pm). Territorial Listening is an event. Its authors start from the premise that cities and streets, much like dreams, present us with manifest and latent contents that are expressed in unconscious ways. The psychoanalyst does not listen only to an individual utterance but to the territorial relations in which it is embedded and where its meaning lies. Starting from Brazilian scenes of listening, Emília Estivalet Broide and Jorge Broide – together with their many collaborators, the ‘Rede SUR’ or ‘South Network’ – construct an entire vocabulary around territorial listening. They ‘listen everywhere’ in the territory, in an embodied manner: in places where people queue for food, in places where police violence takes place, in playgrounds.

Sat 1 Aug19:00Freud Museum London

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Freud's Afternoon Session - Freud and Moses: What's in a name

Freud had a lifelong fascination for the figure of Moses. An etching after Rembrandt’s painting of Moses about to shatter the Ten Commandments hung in his consulting room in Vienna, and Freud dedicated his final completed work, Moses and Monotheism, to the question of the lawgiver’s identity. This talk explores Freud’s fascination, particularly in relation to his 1913 article the Moses of Michelangelo, which was composed under the influence of multiple visits to view the sculpture in the church of St Pietro in Vincoli, on his trip to Rome in 1901. Despite Freud’s libidinal investment in Michelangelo’s sculpture, he chose to publish his paper anonymously. We will examine this peculiar ‘authorial’ decision in the light of Freud’s ambivalent relationship to his Jewish heritage. _______________________________________________________________________ Speaker: Tom DeRose is Research Manager at the Freud Museum London. His research focusses on the cultural and philosophical aspects of Freudian theory. His most recent publication is ‘Freud’s Changing Views on Sadomasochism’, published in, ed. Akhtar and Crilley, ‘The Joy of Torment’ (Karnac, 2024).

Thu 20 Aug16:00Freud Museum London

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IN-HOUSE – CERFI: Analysis Everywhere, with Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira

This ticket is for IN-HOUSE access to this event. Please click here if you would like to purchase an online ticket. ________________________________________________________________________ The Centre for Institutional Studies, Research, and Training (CERFI) was a research cooperative cofounded by Félix Guattari. At the intersection of Marx and Freud, its members set out to place analysis at the centre of militant practices. A constellation of sociologists, philosophers, architects, artists and psychoanalysts, they took analysis everywhere – from hospitals and neighbourhoods to schools, organising and film practice – using whatever means they could invent. Published by Minor Compositions, CERFI: Analysis Everywhere recovers this legacy and invites us to think about analysis –everywhere and by other means – as a vital tool for political transformation. On the Evening: The evening will be an invitation to think with the idea of analysis everywhere and by other means. In the first part, introduced by Raluca Soreanu, we will hear from authors Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira and CERFI founding member Anne Querrien. The second part will be introduced and moderated by psychoanalyst Ana Minozzo, and it will bring together philosopher Rodrigo Nunes, Parapraxis editor Hannah Zeavin, psychodynamic psychotherapist Lizaveta van Munsteren, writer and curator Perwana Nazif and architect and educator Adrian Lahoud.

Wed 16 Sept19:00Freud Museum London

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IN-HOUSE – CERFI: Analysis Everywhere, with Susana Caló, Godofredo Enes Pereira and guests

This ticket is for IN-HOUSE access to this event. Please click here if you would like to purchase an online ticket. ________________________________________________________________________ The Centre for Institutional Studies, Research, and Training (CERFI) was a research cooperative cofounded by Félix Guattari. At the intersection of Marx and Freud, its members set out to place analysis at the centre of militant practices. A constellation of sociologists, philosophers, architects, artists and psychoanalysts, they took analysis everywhere – from hospitals and neighbourhoods to schools, organising and film practice – using whatever means they could invent. Published by Minor Compositions, CERFI: Analysis Everywhere recovers this legacy and invites us to think about analysis –everywhere and by other means – as a vital tool for political transformation. On the Evening: The evening will be an invitation to think with the idea of analysis everywhere and by other means. In the first part, introduced by Raluca Soreanu, we will hear from authors Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira and CERFI founding member Anne Querrien. The second part will be introduced and moderated by psychoanalyst Ana Minozzo, and it will bring together philosopher Rodrigo Nunes, Parapraxis editor Hannah Zeavin, psychodynamic psychotherapist Lizaveta van Munsteren, writer and curator Perwana Nazif and architect and educator Adrian Lahoud.

Wed 16 Sept19:00Freud Museum London

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IN PERSON – The Care Manifesto: Book Launch with The Care Collective

This ticket is for IN-HOUSE access to this event. ________________________________________________________________________ From care crisis to care stripping: building care in times of despair Celebrating The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence, 2nd edition. Despite widespread interest in our Care Manifesto, since its publication we have seen not a growing embrace of the politics of care, but, rather, an intensification in the politics of carelessness and cruelty. Indeed, over the past half decade, the world has witnessed continued warfare, mass human destruction, the amassing of ever more obscene wealth by the few, ongoing austerity, and ‘care-stripping’. Yet even in these times of despair, there is also evidence of increased grassroots resistance and support for better lives for all, as seen, for example, in the popularity of Mamdani in New York and Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico. In these harsh times, we return to the premises of The Care Manifesto and ask how we can collectively strengthen our notions and practices of care? We argue that placing care front and centre of our politics is even more urgent today than it was when the first edition of the manifesto was published six years ago. Please click here if you would like to purchase an online ticket. About the book: The Care Manifesto is the fiercely argued demand to place care at the centre of our politics. Our lives are always interdependent.

Thu 1 Oct19:00Freud Museum London

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Brett Kahr: A Festschrift

The Freud Museum London is delighted to invite you to a special afternoon and evening celebrating the remarkable career and contributions of Professor Brett Kahr, marking his retirement after decades of service to psychoanalysis, scholarship and the Museum. Professor Kahr has shaped the lives of generations of clinicians, scholars and readers through his writing, teaching, mentoring and public advocacy for psychoanalysis. He has also made an extraordinary contribution to the Freud Museum, where his intellectual leadership and generosity have helped define our programme over many years. This special event will bring together colleagues, friends and collaborators to reflect on the many facets of Brett’s work, through talks, conversation, music and celebration, culminating in a reception at the Museum. All proceeds support the Museum, an independent charity with no regular Government funding.

Sun 11 Oct17:00Freud Museum London

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Lean on Me: Book Launch with Lynne Segal

The Freud Museum London is delighted to host this evening event to celebrate the paperback release of Lynne Segal’s ‘Lean on Me’. On the night we will be joined by Lynne Segal and Akshi Singh to explore the themes of care, intimacy, and collective responsibility that are at the core of Lynne’s book. Lynne and Akshi will discuss what it means to depend on one another in an age of social fragmentation, inequality and climate crisis, and consider how practices of radical care can help us imagine a more hopeful future. ________________________________________________________________________ About the book Have you ever relied on the kindness of strangers? What brings people together to find hope and solidarity? What do we owe each other as citizens and comrades? Questions of care, intimacy, education, meaningful work, and social engagement lie at the core of our ability to understand the world and its possibilities for human flourishing. In Lean On Me feminist thinker Lynne Segal goes in search of hope in her own life and in the world around her. She finds it entwined in our intimate commitments to each other and our shared collective endeavours. Segal calls this shared dependence ‘radical care’.

Thu 22 Oct20:00Freud Museum London

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Por que a psicanálise ainda importa ? ( Evento presencial )

Por que a psicanálise ainda importa? No ano em que o Freud Museum celebra seus 40 anos, esta palestra propõe uma reflexão sobre a atualidade da obra de Freud. Mais de um século após o surgimento da psicanálise, suas ideias continuam despertando interesse, provocando debates e suscitando novas perguntas. O que explica essa permanência? Nesta conferência presencial, realizada no Freud Museum, em Londres, o renomado psicanalista, professor e escritor Christian Dunker propõe uma reflexão sobre a presença da psicanálise no mundo de hoje. A partir de temas como sofrimento psíquico, identidade, cultura e política, a conversa busca discutir por que a psicanálise continua oferecendo uma forma de compreender o presente e os impasses da experiência humana. Evento Presencial Data : Quinta feira, 19/11/2026. Horário : 19–20:30 ( Horário de Londres). Palestrante : Christian Dunker é psicanalista, professor titular do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo (USP) e Analista Membro de Escola do Fórum do Campo Lacaniano. É mestre e doutor em Psicologia pela USP, com pós-doutorado na Manchester Metropolitan University. Atua clinicamente a partir de Freud e Lacan e coordena o Laboratório de Teoria Social, Filosofia e Psicanálise da USP. É autor de diversos livros, entre eles Mal-Estar, Sofrimento e Sintoma e Uma Biografia da Depressão, vencedores do Prêmio Jabuti. É colunista da UOL e mantém o canal de divulgação científica “Falando Nisso” no YouTube.

Thu 19 Nov19:00Freud Museum London

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