ABSTRACT
The Freud Museum has had a long engagement with television in one form or another—production companies wishing to film at the museum, TV screens and video installations used in contemporary art exhibitions, and, in 2010, the museum itself becoming the subject of a BBC documentary Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Most people did not believe that Freud was a proper subject for children’s TV. For Freud, the cultural forms existing in the signifying landscape outside the self—the myths, and archetypal stories of culture—are an essential part of the inner world. The creative writer disguises the content of his conscious phantasies, which are themselves revised versions of unconscious phantasies. The use of sensorial metaphors, subordinate clauses, digressions, and ellipses are some of the ways that the narrative is disguised, and each of these forms of enunciation has its counterpart in TV production.
