Sigmund Freud and

his art collection

Short intro to psychoanalysis

• Hypnosis

• Interpretation of dreams

• Theory of Sexuality

• Papers on religion, literature, biography, philosophy

• Papers on sculpture, prehistory, art

Sphinx Greek, South Italian, late 5th-early 4th century BC. Terracotta, 21.0 x 15.0 x 8.0 cmCollection Freud Museum London

Freud stated: 'The psychoanalyst, like the archaeologist, must uncover layer after layer of the patient's psyche, before coming to the deepest, most valuable treasures'.

• Gradivaneo-Attic Roman bas-relief in the

manner of Greek worksVatican Museum, Rome

• Terracotta Cone of Gudea

• Mesopotamian, ca. 2135 B.C.  h. 10.8cm

• Freud Museum London

• By 1939 Freud had amassed over 2000 objects and the collection encompassed items from the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome and China. 

Leonardo Da VinciDrawing of sexual act seen in

anatomical sagittal section

Mythology may give you the courage to believe psychoanalysis. S. Freud