The father of psychoanalysis spent the end of his life in the capital but did he leave any impact?
June sees the re-publication of all the books written by famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, who spent the last year of his life living in London.
Psychoanalysis is a talking therapy where patients lie on a couch with their therapist behind them out of sight. Freud is also widely known for the Oedipus Complex and looked closely at the unconscious mind of his patients. He was particularly concerned with their sex lives, dreams and repression with some of his ideas being considered controversial.
Freud initially stayed at 39 Elsworthy Road in Primrose Hill, where he met the Surrealist artist Salvador Dali and he continued to see Marie Bonaparte among others. "Here I live now, a welcome guest, relieved from that oppression, and happy again that I may speak and write."Freud’s life in Hampstead didn’t last much more than a year.
It remains so today and includes many of Freud’s belongings, including the famous couch he used for his sessions.Freud's Hampstead home has been turned into a museum dedicated to the founder of psychoanalysis
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