06 August 2011

First visit to Freud Museum

On first visiting the Freud Museum - in August 2011 - it was delightful to find, in the "The Killing Pictures" exhibition, a work by Sharon Kivland, who is a Research Associate of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, London  -
The words in the notebooks on the music stands were written (with some financial inducement, it seems*) by her 14-year old son, and are taken from Freud's writings about mother-son relationships -
The house has two blue plaques (one for Sigmund and one for Anna) -
and one can have coffee of sorts in the back garden.

* She says on her website: "I have paid my son an enormous amount of money to fill old school exercises books with handwritten lines (as though it were a cruel punishment), which are the indexical references to mother/son relations in Freud's works, and these were exhibited at the Freud Museum in 'Les paris sont ouverts' in the summer of 2011."

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