The Times of Israel

In Vienna, updated Freud Museum slips in an exhibition space and Holocaust memorial

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 03:51:35 +0000

Beset by challenges during the pandemic, the half-century-old institution is seeing new life after expanding its focus and seeking out younger visitors with a massive renovation

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Lucian Freud centenary exhibit reunites artist with closest friends

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 23:33:57 +0000

Grandson of Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmond Freud features in new exhibition at London's Gagosian gallery that explores the friendship between a group of influential painters

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How Sigmund Freud fled Nazi Austria, leaving siblings who perished in the Holocaust

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 08:01:03 +0000

In his new book 'Saving Freud,' award-winning journalist Andrew Nagorski explores the history surrounding the father of modern psychology's harrowing escape to safety in London

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Louise Bourgeois’s mix of Freud and gore makes gut-clenching, mind-bending art

Sat, 29 May 2021 00:31:59 +0000

Now on display at NY's Jewish Museum, a provocative - and thought-provoking - display featuring beheadings, castrations and menstrual blood also contains deep psychological insight

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Freud’s Vienna private rooms open, bereft of furniture

Sun, 30 Aug 2020 02:39:10 +0000

The psychoanalyst took most of his belongings with him when he fled Nazis in 1938; on display are some of his books, his box of chess and tarot games

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Nazi-era film features Swiss actor Bruno Ganz in final role, as Sigmund Freud

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 22:12:06 +0000

'The Tobacconist' imagines friendship between founder of psychoanalysis and teenage boy in coming-of-age story set against backdrop of 1938 German annexation of Austria

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Intimate Freud letter up for sale in Jerusalem reveals his softer side

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 09:48:48 +0000

Handwritten note offers insight into life of prominent Jewish 20th-century thinker as Nazis advanced on Austria

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The tech age offers easy free love — but we’re hardwired for guilt, says author

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:43:11 +0000

With titillating psychoanalytic case studies, 'The Incurable Romantic' by Dr. Frank Tallis sparks new interest in humankind's bittersweet relationship with matters of the heart

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Freud’s fetish for ancient Egyptology unveiled in new exhibit

Sun, 15 Sep 2019 02:51:09 +0000

Exhibition running through October 13 at London's Freud Museum puts the father of psychoanalysis side by side with Sir Flinders Petrie, a pioneer of modern Egyptian studies

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Freud’s a fraud? 110 unpublished Einstein documents unveiled by Hebrew U

Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:32:04 +0000

Released ahead of what would be physicist's 140th birthday, trove includes 1935 letter expressing fear of war in Europe and appearing to dismiss Sigmund Freud as a 'simple swindle'

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New book puts Freud and psychoanalysis back on the couch

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 01:53:22 +0000

Medical doctor turned Sammy Rohr prizewinning author Austin Ratner analyzes why Freud's school of psychology isn't doing as well as it used to

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Letter detailing Freud’s Jewish background to be auctioned

Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:32:09 +0000

Missive from father of psychoanalysis to colleague shows he 'respects the importance of his Jewish ancestry and is happy to share it'

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Israel museum reunites rings Freud used to bind students

Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:24:32 +0000

'Freud of the Rings' exhibit highlights personality of father of psychoanalysis, who founded society of analysts

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Austria shaken by ‘Nazi songbook’ scandal

Fri, 02 Feb 2018 16:38:21 +0000

Affair has thrown spotlight on the far-right Freedom Party, nationalist fraternities and conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz

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In Jerusalem, a 94-year-old World Jewish Student Congress rediscovers its voice

Thu, 04 Jan 2018 08:30:37 +0000

The organization that once boasted members such as Freud, Einstein and Chaim Weizmann has fallen into debt and off the world stage. A group of new leaders hopes to change that

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