Showing posts with label London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London. Show all posts

Saturday, August 1, 2015

Freud's narcissistic bubble

Freud Museum London

In 1938, following the Nazi annexation, Freud and his family escaped Austria and moved to 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, London. It's the place where he continued to see his patients while finishing "An Outline of Psychoanalysis" and "Moses and Monotheism". Although he never liked Vienna very much and he always fantasized about living in London, he got to live here only for a year. He passed away on 23 September 1939.
This house belonged to the Freud family until 1982, when his daughter Anna died. For 44 years, she managed to keep her father's memory still alive and preserved his study in the exact way it was during his lifetime. One of the highlights is his study. The famous couch is here as well. The Freud Museum also keeps his large library along his impressive collection of antiquities containing 2000 pieces of Egyptian, Roman, Greek and Oriental figurines.










                                      
  Anna's desk.


     Anna's typewriter





Anna's wardrobe














    The lovely garden


Sigmund Freud's portrait sketched by Salvador Dali in 1938


















Sigmund Freud's "analytical couch". 




Monday, December 3, 2012

London: Friday...

Friday
by Ann Drysdale
 
The print of a bare foot, the second toe
A little longer than the one which is
Traditionally designated "great".
Praxiteles would have admired it.

You must have left in haste; your last wet step
Before boarding your suit and setting sail,
Outlined in talcum on the bathroom floor
Mocks your habitual fastidiousness.

There is no tide here to obliterate
Your oversight. Unless I wipe or sweep
Or suck it up, it will not go away.
The thought delights me. I will keep the footprint.

Too slight, too simply human to be called
Token or promise; I am keeping it
Because it is a precious evidence
That on this island I am not alone.


Sunday, May 20, 2012

London: Black & white Camden

"All In White"

Break me on the thirty-seventh hour
Tout me, doubt me, show me all of your power
I will watch you rise on my back from the ground
Friend or foe?
I don't know
Do you like what you've found?

I will one day shine with you
I'll shine on a faithful few

Show we 'low quotations
Have you earned your stripes?
Fabricate salvation
Lord, I know your type
I've known you all my life
I was always wrong, you all in white

Brush my cause aside with little trouble
Oh my god, I think I'm hearing double
I will watch you rise on my back from afar
Friend or foe?
I don't know now you're up in the stars

But I will one day shine with you

I'll shine on a faithful few.

(The Vaccines, "All in white")