Egypt played a prominent role in Freud’s personal life and writings. From his childhood encounter with the Phillipson Bible, through his psychobiography of Leonardo da Vinci (in which the Egyptian goddess Mut becomes a key to the artist’s sexual and creative identity) to his final work Moses and Monotheism in which he makes the scandalous claim that Moses was not a Jew but an Egyptian. Accompanying the exhibition at the Freud Museum in London, this conference explores the themes of Egyptomania, sexuality, death and psychoanalysis. The day will conclude with a reading from Michael Eaton’s new play about Freud and Petrie.
Speakers
Miriam Leonard (UCL) Introduction
Simon Goldhill (Cambridge)
Digging the Dirt: Freud’s archaeology and the lure of Egypt
Daniel Orrells (Kings College London)
Freud and Leonardo in Egypt
Phiroze Vasunia (UCL)
Egyptomania before Freud
Claus Jurman (Birmingham)
Egyptology in Vienna
Griselda Pollock (Leeds)
Freud’s Egyptian Moses, Mummies, Mothers and other Revenants: A Political-Cultural Reading
Joan Raphael Leff (Anna Freud Center)
Speculations on the pre-oedipal significance of Egypt for Freud
Michael Eaton (Nottingham)
Discordant Diggers…When Freud did not meet Petrie
For more information and to book a place please go to:
https://www.freud.org.uk/