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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud's visitors' room couch. (Hertha Hurnaus/ Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung)
June 24, 2023, 6:51 am
In Vienna, updated Freud Museum slips in an exhibition space and Holocaust memorial
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
By Rich Blaustein
Christie's employees look towards a family portrait from 1992 by Lucian Freud, at their auction rooms in London, April 28, 2016. The painting was valued at 18 million UK pounds, 26.25 million US dollars. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth/File)
November 18, 2022, 1:33 am
Lucian Freud centenary exhibit reunites artist with closest friends
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
By Helen Rowe
Sigmund Freud in his study at Berggasse 19 in Vienna, 1934. (Freud Museum London)
September 26, 2022, 11:01 am
How Sigmund Freud fled Nazi Austria, leaving siblings who perished in the Holocaust
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
By JP O’ Malley
Clockwise, from left: 'Hysterical.' (The Easton Foundation/ Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society, New York; Photo: Christopher Burke); Artist Lousie Bourgeois (YouTube); Installation view of 'Louise Bourgeois: Freud’s Daughter,' at The Jewish Museum in New York. (Photo by Ron Amstutz. © The Easton Foundation/ Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society, New York)
May 29, 2021, 3:31 am
Louise Bourgeois’s mix of Freud and gore makes gut-clenching, mind-bending art
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
By Jordan Hoffman
The waiting room in the ordination of the psychologist Sigmund Freud in Vienna, Austria on August 26, 2020 (ALEX HALADA / AFP)
August 30, 2020, 5:39 am
Freud’s Vienna private rooms open, bereft of furniture
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
By AFP
Simon Morzé as Franz, and Bruno Ganz as Sigmund Freud in 'The Tobacconist' (Petro Domenigg/ Epo Film/Glory Film)
July 9, 2020, 1:12 am
Nazi-era film features Swiss actor Bruno Ganz in final role, as Sigmund Freud
‘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
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, center, poses with his daughter Mathilde, left, and Dr. Ernest Jones on his arrival at his Hampstead home in London, England, on June 6, 1938 (AP Photo)
November 1, 2019, 11:48 am
Intimate Freud letter up for sale in Jerusalem reveals his softer side
Handwritten note offers insight into life of prominent Jewish 20th-century thinker as Nazis advanced on Austria
By Patty Nieberg
Dr. Frank Tallis, author of 'The Incurable Romantic.' (Courtesy)
October 29, 2019, 3:43 am
The tech age offers easy free love — but we’re hardwired for guilt, says author
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
By JP O’ Malley
Sigmund Freud in his study at Berggasse 19 in Vienna, 1934. (Freud Museum London)
September 15, 2019, 5:51 am
Freud’s fetish for ancient Egyptology unveiled in new exhibit
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
By Adam Sonin
Undated photo shows famed physicist Albert Einstein. (AP Photo, File)
March 6, 2019, 2:32 pm
Freud’s a fraud? 110 unpublished Einstein documents unveiled by Hebrew U
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’
By Michael Bachner
Author Austin Ratner and his new book, 'The Psychoanalyst's Aversion to Proof.' (Courtesy)
February 7, 2019, 3:53 am
New book puts Freud and psychoanalysis back on the couch
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
By Cathryn J. Prince
Sigmund Freud (photo credit: Max Halberstadt /LIFE/Wikimedia Commons)
August 29, 2018, 4:32 pm
Letter detailing Freud’s Jewish background to be auctioned
Missive from father of psychoanalysis to colleague shows he ‘respects the importance of his Jewish ancestry and is happy to share it’
By JTA
Curator Morag Wilhelm holds a signet ring that had been given by Sigmund Freud to close students, at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on July 12, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
July 12, 2018, 10:24 pm
Israel museum reunites rings Freud used to bind students
‘Freud of the Rings’ exhibit highlights personality of father of psychoanalysis, who founded society of analysts
By Jonah Mandel
People hold up placards during a protest against Austria's far-right Freedom Paty in Vienna on January 26, 2018. (AFP Photo/APA/Hans Punz)
February 2, 2018, 6:38 pm
Austria shaken by ‘Nazi songbook’ scandal
Affair has thrown spotlight on the far-right Freedom Party, nationalist fraternities and conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz
By Sophie MAKRIS
WUJS participants represented 36 different countries from around the world. (Photo credit: Dana Levinson Steiner)
January 4, 2018, 10:30 am
In Jerusalem, a 94-year-old World Jewish Student Congress rediscovers its voice
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
By Tracy Frydberg
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