Abstract

Freud Museum, London 10 October 2013–2 February 2014 The house is unmistakably Sigmund Freud’s, although he only occupied it for a year. Emigrating to England as a result of Germany’s annexation of Austria in June 1938, Freud died there in 1939. Now a museum, visitors can see his collection of heavy furniture, rich cloths, and archaeological treasures and totems of many traditions: Greek, Roman, Mesopotamian. He called them his ‘old and grubby gods’ who aided him in his work. Archaeology and psychoanalysis were closely connected for Freud since both require digging to reveal the truth. Inspired by Lisa Appignanesi’s acclaimed 2009 book Mad, Bad and Sad: …

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