YOUR CHANCE TO SEE A SIGNIFICANT DREAM...

PROFESSOR Blagrove is hosting special event to commemorate a significant moment in the history of dream analysis.

Prof Blagrove, director of the Swansea University Sleep Laboratory, will join forces with artist Dr Julia Lockheart to invite an online audience to discuss a dream shared by a patient with Sigmund Freud in 1900. The free event, at 4pm on January 31, will look back to when a patient of Freud’s, known as Dora, shared a dream about travelling to attend her father’s funeral.

The Zoom event will discuss

Dora – now known to have been young Viennese woman Ida Bauer – and the relationship between her social and personal life and the two dreams she told Freud about.

There will be a reading of the dream from the very room at Freud’s apartment in Vienna, now the Sigmund Freud Museum, where Dora was seen by Freud.

During the discussion, attendees from around the world will also watch the dream being painted and discuss the painting with the artist.

Set to be attended by psychologists, historians and psychoanalysts as well as the public, the panellists will be:

Dr Deirdre Barrett, Harvard Medical School, editor of the American Psychological Associations’s journal Dreaming;

Professor Dany Nobus, Professor of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Brunel University, London, and Fellow of the Freud Museum London,

Dr Brigitte Holzinger, psychotherapist, and Director of the Institute for Consciousness and Dream Research, Vienna;

Katharina Adler, writer, author of the novel Ida, and great-granddaughter of Ida Bauer / Dora;

Zora Wessely, student at the University of Vienna.

You can find out more about the event and book your place – www. eventbrite.co.uk/e/dreamsiddiscussing-painting-2nd-dreamof-freudian-feminist-hero-doratickets-130673924225