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The centrepiece of the room, and arguably of the whole museum, is the couch where patients were treated with the psychoanalyst’s ‘talking cure’
When the pioneer of psychoanalysis made his only trip to America, he brought back a memento that became a desktop muse
In 1930s London, the psychoanalyst met the Spanish painter — art and Freudian theory have been entwined ever since
‘For much of the 20th century, altruism was usually taken to be a form of selfishness in disguise’
The chorus is at the heart of this musically excellent production of Schoenberg’s ambitious opera
‘The trains that carry occasional Londoners will themselves act as de facto offices’
‘I had the most wonderful feeling, as though not only had I solved this problem, I had actually solved all the problems that there are’
Antony Sher is masterful in this production of Terry Johnson’s disturbing farce
Sutherland’s works veer between the excellent and the embarrassing
Though seemingly sensitive and fragile, the singer-songwriter here revealed a tougher sensibility
The artist’s love affair with pop music is explored in this hugely enjoyable exhibition
I chewed over perhaps the best example of dairy-based tea-party status anxiety in the whole of English literature
Translation is an art beset with linguistic pitfalls
Social media used to be the equivalent of a locked bedroom; now your parents can monitor your travails on Facebook
The founders of psychoanalysis made wonderful discoveries, whose implications may take several centuries to realise
The Nazis’ Italian atrocities are laid bare in this appallingly painful masterpiece, which combines fiction with deeply researched historical facts
Lucian Freud’s portraits have the ability to ‘astonish, disturb, seduce and convince’ as the artist intended
From his Danish jazz-rap to his signature, there’s something about Viggo Mortensen that isn’t quite like other Hollywood leading men
The first in an occasional series on fashion in the arts. This week, David Cronenberg’s latest film ‘A Dangerous Method’
Laurence Parisot holds a master’s degree in public law and was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite in 2003
The Olympic swimmer talks about gold medals, her aversion to odd numbers and why she likes to do a jigsaw every day
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