Freud Museum exhibition uses art to explore the psychoanalyst’s often contradictory relationships with women

By Simon Wortham, Pro Vice-Chancellor Research, Kingston University

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…

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