Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Freud’s 4pm Session: “What have they done to you, poor child?” |
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| Venue | : | Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SX ,UK |
| Date | : | 01/11/2024 |
| Duration | : | 4 - 5pm GMT |
| Extra Info | : | A talk by Dr Valerie Sinason. In 1897, on December 22nd, a compassionate pioneering psychoanalyst asked a close friend this question. It concerned a two-year-old girl who was brutally raped by her father and nearly died. This was 127 years ago. The psychoanalyst had even said his question could be the new motto for psychoanalysis. The man was Sigmund Freud, and he was writing to his friend Wilhelm Fliess. Abuse by middle class, upper class or VIP adults has been unbearable for most professionals to consider in our own time, let alone over a century ago but Freud never gave up on the reality of child abuse even though he could not take it further. Somehow Freud is expected to have managed it. Why does he bear the major brunt of social anger towards therapists who turned a blind eye to abuse over the last century and what does this tell us about the nature of the subject and our relationship to Freud? |
| Organised By | : | Freud Museum London |
| Web Link | : | https://www.freud.org.uk/event/freuds-4pm-session-what-have-they-done-to-you-poor-child/ |