Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Freud Museum London - 'Anxiety' Book Launch |
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| Venue | : | Freud Museum London, Hybrid |
| Date | : | 24/10/2026 |
| Duration | : | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (GMT) |
| Extra Info | : | The Freud Museum is delighted to welcome Salman Akhtar and Mary Kay O’Neil to discuss their edited volume, Anxiety: Clarification, Critique and . They will be joined in their discussion by the Freud Museum’s Research Manager and book contributor Tom DeRose. The evening will begin with a presentation by Tom DeRose on Freud’s changing views on anxiety, considering the 100-year anniversary of the publication of Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety. Then Salman Akhtar will discuss the distinctions between different types of anxiety and their relations to fears and phobias. Finally, Mary Kay O’Neill will discuss the theme of the professional anxieties of analysts. There will be opportunities for audience questions and discussion throughout the event. Please click here if you would like to purchase an online ticket. About the book: Anxiety is one of the most central concepts in both the theoretical and clinical foundations of psychoanalysis. Thus, the study of anxiety is, in effect, the study of psychoanalysis itself. Salman Akhtar and Mary Kay O’Neil have gathered together a thoughtful group of scholars to cover this challenging terrain. The book opens with two chapters that lay out the groundwork for things to come: the first offers succinct definitions of the plethora of psychiatric and psychoanalytic terms pertaining to this emotion; the second elucidates Freud’s changing views of anxiety. These chapters are followed by independent discourses on separation anxiety and castration anxiety that attempt to describe, critique, and these well-established notions. A section on cultural matters follows which includes essays on performance and climate anxieties. Part IV focuses on the clinical process and provides three pithy discourses on the entanglement of anxiety with enactment, aging, and trauma. The fifth and final part explores the analyst’s clinical and professional anxieties. |
| Organised By | : | Freud Museum London |
| Web Link | : | https://www.freud.org.uk/event/in-house-anxiety-clarification-critique-and-/?mc_cid=76ae34be3d&mc_eid=aee9e2e575 |