Sigmund Freud’s Egyptian antiquities go on display ++REPLAY++

(4 Oct 2019) UK FREUD EGYPTOLOGY SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only LENGTH: 5:55 SHOTLIST ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY London, UK - 30 September 2019 1. Various of a gilded mummy mask (600-332 BC) at “Freud & Egypt, Between Oedipus and the Sphinx“ exhibition 2. Mid of a falcon headed figure 3. Various of a painted plaster mask from a female mummy (Roman period, 100-120 AD) 4. Wide of exterior of Sigmund Freud’s last ever home, now the Freud Museum London 5. Close of blue plaques showing that Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna Freud lived here 6. Wide of hallway and stairs inside house 7. Mid of glass case containing Egyptian artifacts and sign on wall reading (English): “Freud & Egypt, Between Oedipus and the Sphinx“ 8. Exhibition’s curator Miriam Leonard walking towards collection of Egyptian figures in Sigmund Freud’s study 9. Mid of Egyptian figures 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Miriam Leonard, Freud & Egypt exhibition curator: “It’s the 80th anniversary of Freud’s death this year but it’s also the 80th anniversary of the last major work that he wrote which is called ’Moses and Monotheism’. And that work has Egypt at the centre of its ideas and it was in the context of my work on that final work of Sigmund Freud’s that I became involved in this exhibition.“ 11. Close of Moses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud 12. Wide of Freud’s study, including the sofa where he died (left) 13. Various of Freud’s desk with many Egyptian figures and antiquities on top 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Miriam Leonard, Freud & Egypt exhibition curator: “On the one hand we can sort of see what role Egypt played in Freud’s writings, he wrote a great many books. But on the other hand, if you come to this museum, you immediately see that Freud surrounded himself with antiquities. He was an absolutely compulsive collector of ancient objects and there are about 2,500 antiquities in Freud’s personal collection and 600 of them come from Egypt. So it’s the single culture which is most represented in his antiquities collection.“ 15. Mid of Egyptian figures on display in study 16. Mid of Sphinx picture on wall 17. SOUNDBITE (English) Miriam Leonard, Freud & Egypt exhibition curator: “There is a large number of objects to do with death. So there are beautiful mummy masks, a barge carrying the mummies across the Nile and hundreds of heart scarabs, which were representatives of the kind of relationship between life and the afterlife. And it’s quite interesting Freud started collecting his antiquities just after his father died and he connected it to that. So I think Freud’s interest in Egypt was partly motivated by his fascination with questions of death and the relationship between the dead and the living and how that related to questions about the conscious and the unconscious.“ 18. Various of a model funerary barque 19. Mid of a mummy portrait (Roman period, 250-300 AD) 20. Close of heart scarab (New Kingdom, 18th-19th dynasty, 1540-1190 BC) 21. Pull focus from bust of Sigmund Freud to picture of the Rock Temple of Abu Simbel 22. Close of picture 23. SOUNDBITE (English) Carol Seigel, Director, Freud Museum London: 24. Pull focus from chandelier to signage for Freud & Egypt exhibition on upstairs landing, outside exhibition room 25. Wide of glass case containing objects in exhibition 26. Close of figure of Amenophis I and Ahmose-Nofretiri (1390-1353 BC) which normally sits on a table facing Freud’s couch but is now on display 27. Close of a Donation Stele (301 BC), a commemorative inscription that records the giving of a gift LEADIN: STORYLINE: Clients are reminded: Find out more about AP Archive: Twitter: Facebook: ​​ Instagram: You can license this story through AP Archive: