Metadata: Photograph Collection
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Freud Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Freud Museum
- Postal address:
- 20 Maresfield GardensHampstead London Greater London United Kingdom NW3 5SX
- Web address:
- https://www.freud.org.uk/collections/researchers/
- Email:
- Email: bryony@freud.org.uk
- Reference number:
- IN
- Title:
- Photograph Collection
- Title (official language):
- Photograph Collection
- Creator/accumulator:
- Freud, Sigmund
- Date(s):
- 1825/1998
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 3865 items
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises almost all of the historic photographs owned by the Freud Museum London. The majority are photos taken and owned by the Freud family, including snapshots, holiday photos and studio portraits. These include both family photographs and those of friends and colleagues, including some from congresses of the International Psychoanalytic Association. There are also a substantial number of photos from the Hampstead War Nurseries and Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic as well as locations that commemorate Sigmund and Anna Freud, such as the museums in London, Vienna and Pribor.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Moravia, now part of Czech Republic, to a Jewish family. Though Judaism was culturally a big part of Freud’s identity, he himself was an atheist. The family settled in Vienna when Freud was a boy, and in 1873 he began his medical studies at Vienna University. After qualifying in 1881, Freud began a residency at the Viennese General Hospital and set up his private practice in 1886, specialising in nervous and brain disorders. Freud is best known for developing the psychoanalytic theory of the conscious mind (the ego), the unconscious (the id) and the conscience (superego). His magnum opus, The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, presented dreams as unconscious desires. Other influential works include The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) and The Ego and the Id (1923). Freud was appointed Professor of Neuropathology at the University of Vienna in 1902, a post he held until 1938, when he was forced to flee Nazi-occupied Austria and settle in Hampstead, London. He died in 1939.
- Subject terms:
- Photographs
- Psychology
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25