The expansive new exhibition Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists fills the entire space of London’s Freud Museum. It tells the stories of “Freud’s women” through a mix of visual and historical materials, such as letters, in a way that allows fresh perspectives to emerge.
In this important new exhibition, Freud’s female patients, from whom he learnt so much, are heralded as co-creators of his work and not just hysterical women.
Pioneering psychoanalysts like Melanie Klein, Helene Deutsch and Anna Freud (whose analytic couch is spread with an embroidered linen by Italian artist Carolina Mazzolari) are also rightly celebrated. Psychoanalysis, a theory developed by Freud, treats psychiatric and emotional disorders by investigating the role of the unconscious.
