Freud Museum London

Ortega is well known for his sculptures, installations, videos, photographs and actions. Mundane objects feature prominently, from golf balls and pick-axes to bricks, rubbish bins and even tortillas – all subjected to what has been described as Ortega’s characteristic “mischievous process of transformation and dysfunction”.

The artist was invited to visit the Gashaka region in Nigeria: one of the last remaining wildernesses in West Africa, where the rarest subspecies of chimpanzees survives and where the Gashaka Primate Project has its base. By taking an artist to the wilderness, bridges and boundaries between art and science are instinctively created. This exhibition explores these divisions and their transgressions through the work of Ortega. Unlike a dissecting and objectifying scientist, an artist will be able to contextualize the sensitivities of our natural and cultural side in a more nuanced, private and subjectified way – thus honouring Freud’s idea that our psyche is at the heart of our existence.

Admission

Adults: £6.00
Senior Citizens: £4.50
Concessions: £3.00 (Students with valid ID cards, children aged 12-16, UK unemployed persons - with proof, disabled persons).
Children under 12: Free

Website

http://www.freud.org.uk/exhibitions/75095/apestraction/

Three of our most distinguished contemporary poets in conversations with psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, exploring themes of trauma, loss and recovery in their work.

Bernard O’Donoghue
in conversation with David Morgan

Sam Willetts
in conversation with Gerry Byrne

Jane Draycott
in conversation with Caroline Garland

When

9:30am-4:30pm

Where

Freud Museum
20 Maresfield Gardens
London
NW3 5SX

Admission

£60 Full Price / £45 Students and concessions
(£5 discount for members of the Freud Museum)

For further information contact eventsandmedia@freud.org.uk or +44 (0)20 7435 2002

Website

http://www.freud.org.uk/events/75110/psychoanalytic-poetry-festival-/

10 week evening class

This course examines the tradition of erotic love in Western philosophy, touching on anthropology, literature and neuroscience.

We will look at successive theories of love, from Plato to the present, and the changing notions, so germane to these, about what it is to be a human, and to be a man or a woman. Erotic love is full of contradictions – earthy and gross yet transcendent and spiritual, wild yet exclusive, natural yet artificial, spontaneous and conventional – but so many theories on it fail to do justice to its paradoxical nature. They avoid not only the soul and the genitals, but even the person who is the object of love. We will try and do better.

The ten week course being held on Thursday evenings at the Freud Museum London from 25 April until 4 July (no class 6 June), 6.30pm – 8.30pm.

No prior knowledge will be assumed and you will be guided by an experienced tutor with many years’ teaching experience.

Suitable for

Admission

£140, £110 Members of the Museum, £90 student/unemployed

Advance booking essential