Recording from a 1938 BBC radio broadcast
From Open Culture (link via 3:AM Magazine): ‘On December 7, 1938, a BBC radio crew visited Sigmund Freud at his new home at Hampstead, North London. Freud had moved to England only a few months earlier to escape the Nazi annexation of Austria. He was 81 years old and suffering from incurable jaw cancer. Every word was an agony to speak. Less then a year later, when the pain became unbearable, Freud asked his doctor to administer a lethal dose of morphine. The BBC recording is the only known audio recording of Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis and one of the towering intellectual figures of the 20th century. ’ [Read More]
Also at A Piece of Monologue:
- Katja Behling, Martha Freud: A Biography
- On the Couch: Freud and the New Yorker
- David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method
- Sigmund Freud: The Reluctant Philosopher
- Freud and Global Economic Collapse
- Ballard: 'Freud was a born storyteller'
- Freud and Yeats on Wikipedia
- Sigmund Freud and Cocaine
- Freud and Love
- Open Yale Courses: Theories of Literature
- Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital
