Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Queer Encounters with Psychoanalytic History at the Freud Museum |
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| Venue | : | Online |
| Date | : | 01/02/2025 |
| Duration | : | 2 - 4:30pm GMT |
| Extra Info | : | Online symposium reflecting on the cultural representations of the relationship between Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham. Chair: Professor Raluca Soreanu Panellists: Patricia Gherovici PhD, Dr Noreen Giffney, Harriet Mossop, Dr Hannah Zeavin The film Freud’s Last Session (2023) portrays an imagined meeting between Sigmund Freud and CS Lewis on the day that Britain d war on Germany in 1939. Although the film’s main subject is the philosophical and theological disagreement between Freud the atheist and Lewis the Christian, it also portrays Anna Freud as in a lesbian relationship with her long-term partner Dorothy Burlingham, and Sigmund Freud as uncomfortable with this unconventional relationship. Together with a panel of four speakers with academic and clinical interest in gender and sexuality in psychoanalysis, we will use the movie as a starting point to reflect on how cultural representations of this enigmatic relationship have changed in the 40 years since Anna Freud’s death, and to relate this to work with different expressions of gender and sexuality in the psychoanalytic clinic today, in the context of ongoing movements towards (or returns to) ‘queer and trans psychoanalysis’. |
| Organised By | : | Freud Museum London / University of Essex |
| Web Link | : | https://www.freud.org.uk/event/queer-encounters-at-the-freud-museum-online-symposium/ |