Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
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Psychoanalyst and former Freud Professor, known for contributions to child analysis and theories of symbolism, aesthetics, and politics.
On the island
Eight records
Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 "The Trout" (4th movement)
Guarneri Quartet and Emanuel Ax
I like the trout quartet because it touches on the two or three happiest years of my life. I have to mention that it was a favorite record of my husband.
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 "Funeral March"
Well, a funeral march is the first music I remember. One rainy afternoon our parents dumped us in an afternoon concert.
Well, the international, there were so many hopes. you know, international hopes about this social democratic, fully elected government surviving.
It describes one aspect of the war, which is the isolation, the loneliness of all soldiers in all wars.
I work very much on the borderline between creativity and psychosis. So it's a very fine defined line. And this I think is the only record [that] actually conveys psychotic terror.
Dis-moi, Vénus (J'ai deux amours)
I always loved parties. I had always two countries, my own country and Paris. And this is Je de Zamour. I have two loves.
The Old Man River, I love it because it both shows how indifferent nature is, you know, how little what little role we play. And how infinite is the human misery? And yet it has something comforting in it, the feeling that life goes on.
String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K. 465 "Dissonance" (2nd movement)Favourite
I think one thing I love about Mozart is the serenity. But this one is not so serene. But I can always listen to motor to any motor.
In conversation
Presenter asks
5:17What was the trigger that made you want to become a psychoanalyst?
Ever since I came to adolescence. I had certain passions in my life. One was for beauty in all its form, literature. Painting architecture... My other passion is what I also called socialism in those days. Now I think it's social justice. And the two seem a bit irreconcilable. And then I started reading Freud. And it was the answer to both.
Presenter asks
12:04Why does remembering that moment [when you decided not to go to the Spanish Civil War] still upset you?
I think we're laughing because I get very old and I upset easily. I think two things it's because me being an only child if I had a sister who stayed. I could have gone. Secondly, I think also I wonder how much... I had to stay to look after my parents. Was probably maybe I didn't want to go and fight and die... I wanted to stay and think and live.
Presenter asks
18:21How did Melanie Klein's views differ from those of Anna Freud?
Klein considered herself that she was more Freud's daughter because she kept certain parameters, the analytical setting, and her attitude to the children was the same in a way as to adults, except she had the stock of genius that children communicate by play to use play.
The keepsakes
The book
Marcel Proust
It's very long, but uh infinite riches. You know, there's nothing in Freud, that in some way or other is isn't in Prussia.
The luxury
I think I would want uh a snorkel and polaroid because it's such infinite variety and the wonderful underworld of the sea.
Presenter asks
22:11Are there external influences that you can bring to bear on your child, or is the child preprogrammed to develop these problems [or psychoses]?
Except with very definite illnesses that can be identified with the particular gene. We are not. Programmed... But it's also something inherited. My son, who is professor of philosophy of mind, said, Don't worry, mum, it's always your fault. It's either your genes or your upbringing.
Presenter asks
26:43When can you say this patient is cured? Can you ever say that?
But there is no such way as [cured]. That's an absolute, what a cured person, I've never seen one... He would say, Now, you know, I can... I can deal with the problem.
Presenter asks
28:23Would you sit on your desert island and be able to come to terms with loneliness?
Physically... I think I wouldn't survive more than two or three days without my battery of medicines, doctors, helpers... But mentally, I think if there was a hope of having some contact somewhere with another human being, I do have inner resources and can bear separation and loneliness without turning against life. But if there was no contact whatsoever with another human being. I think I would prefer a very swift, painless death.
“There is nothing worse to do to the child than to be false. As Samuel Johnson had said, I don't know if truth will be of any comfort to you, but I do know that what's built on lies can only lead you to disaster.”
“I put it that Freud discovered the child in the adult. She [Melanie Klein] discovered the infant inside the child.”
“We have to recognize that they are psychic facts. Are just as real as weights and measure. If you're angry, it's a psychic fact, it's a fact. It's not an invention.”