Few figures have had as decisive and fundamental an influence on the course of modern cultural history as Sigmund Freud. Yet few figures also have inspired such sustained controversy and intense debate. Freud's legacy continues to be hotly contested. Our notions of identity, memory, childhood, sexuality, and, most generally, of meaning have been shaped in relation to — and often in opposition to — Freud's work. This exhibition examines Freud's life and his key ideas and their effect upon the twentieth century.
Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture is composed of three major sections. Section One: Formative Years begins in late nineteenth-century Vienna, the milieu of Freud's early professional development. Section Two: Therapy and Theory, examines key psychoanalytic concepts and how Freud used them in some of his most famous cases. Section Three: From the Individual to Society, explores the diffusion of pyschoanalytic ideas, and Freud's speculations about the origins of society and the social functions of religion and art, and how crises reveal fundamental aspects of human nature. Throughout the exhibition, words and images — often contentious, sometimes humorous — attest to the impact of Freud's ideas on the twentieth century.
Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture is composed of three major sections. Section One: Formative Years begins in late nineteenth-century Vienna, the milieu of Freud's early professional development. Section Two: Therapy and Theory, examines key psychoanalytic concepts and how Freud used them in some of his most famous cases. Section Three: From the Individual to Society, explores the diffusion of pyschoanalytic ideas, and Freud's speculations about the origins of society and the social functions of religion and art, and how crises reveal fundamental aspects of human nature. Throughout the exhibition, words and images — often contentious, sometimes humorous — attest to the impact of Freud's ideas on the twentieth century.
