Freud
“A portrait of the great psychoanalyst.”
Freud, also known as Freud: The Life of a Dream, is a 1984 six-part BBC television serial dramatised by Carey Harrison, and starring David Suchet as Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Each episode begins with Freud and his family in London, where they had fled from Vienna in 1938 following the Nazi Anschluss, leading up to Freud's death a little over a year later. The rest of the episodes are told mainly in flashbacks to key moments in Freud's life and career
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- Ep 1
1.In the Name of the Gods
14-09-198460mAiling 83-year-old Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha, and daughter Anna settle into a new home in London after being forced to flee Austria. Flashbacks recall Freud's early profession...
- Ep 2
2.The Hypnotist
21-09-198460mParis, 1885: Freud goes to Paris to study under Jean-Marin Charcot, who has been experimenting with hypnosis to treat patients with 'hysterical' neuroses. Returning to Vienna, his...
- Ep 3
3.The Secret of Dreams
28-09-198460mVienna 1891: through his practice, self-examination, and friendships with Breuer and Wilhelm Fliess, Freud develops his concepts of the unconscious and the role of desire, beginnin...
- Ep 4
4.Madonna
05-10-198460mAn intriguing new relationship develops when Minna Bernays, Freud's attractive sister-in-law, joins the family. Freud's recent theory has outraged Vienna, leaving him, professional...
- Ep 5
5.Messiah
12-10-198460mVienna 1907: The movement of psychoanalysis is born. Freud's revolutionary theories appeal to a growing band of supporters—Adler, Stekel, Federn, Rank, Ferenczi—who passionately pa...
- Ep 6
6.The World As Dream
19-10-198460mLondon, 1939: Psychoanalysis flourishes in America and Freud's works are sought worldwide: his international standing has far surpassed his father's simple plea that he make profes...
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