Freud's final session

The Final Session of Freud, a play by American author Mark St. Germain, after premiering in New York in 2010 and triumphing around the world, comes to the Museum under the direction of British Tamzin Townsend and performed by two great actors, Helio Pedregal, as Sigmund Freud, and Eleazar Ortiz, as C.S. Lewis.

Tickets: 16 and 14€.

THE SHOW

The play Freud's Final Session takes place in London on the day England declares war on Hitler. On that crucial day for the West, Sigmund Freud, the 83-year-old father of psychoanalysis, receives Clive Staples Lewis, 40, a promising professor at Oxford University.

The meeting took place on September 3, 1939 at 20 Maresfied Gardens Hampstead, in the office that Anna, Freud's daughter, had decorated in imitation of the practice in Vienna, the city that the family left in 1938 in the face of the Nazi threat.

C.S. Lewis, who will be recognized as a brilliant author of fantasy literature for works such as The Chronicles of Narnia or The Devil's Letters to his nephew, had satirized Freud in one of his books, so the neurologist wants to meet him personally.

The two geniuses will disagree, ironically, sharply and bitingly, about love, sex, art, the existence of God and the meaning of life, twenty days before Sigmund Freud takes his own life.

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