The room before the voice.
A silent moving portrait created as the threshold to the Freud Universe.
The moving portrait
Black-and-white portrait films, provocations and spoken fragments. The image is contemporary. The intellectual material comes from Freud's work and the living encounter built around it.
A silent moving portrait created as the threshold to the Freud Universe.
The introduction to an artificial historical performance.
Hello. My name is Sigmund Freud, or perhaps I am his ghost. In this app, you can speak with me. I bring the knowledge of psychoanalysis into a living analytic session, with you.
The person speaking chooses the material. Freud follows.
Speak freely. Tell me what returns to your mind, what troubles you, and what you dream. I will listen as an analyst, drawing on every work I wrote and the entire tradition of psychoanalysis.
A conversation becomes a personal route through the corpus.
My books are no longer silent. Here, their knowledge speaks back. Ask me about dreams, desire, anxiety, love, childhood, or the unconscious, and receive not a quotation, but an analytic conversation.
From On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement, 1914.
That I have not developed any particular respect for the opinion of the world or any desire for intellectual deference during those years, when I alone represented psychoanalysis, will surprise no one.
Adapted from Constructions in Analysis, 1937.
Analysis resembles archaeology. We reconstruct what has vanished from fragments, repetitions, silences, and traces that remain alive inside the person before us.
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