FREUD’S ‘OBJECTS’: Plurality and complexity in the internal world and in the analyst’s working self

In a touching and well-researched book written in 1989, Lynn Gamwell, Director of Binghamton University Art Museum in New York State, examined Freud’s notable collection of antique art. She observed that Freud began to surround himself with antique objects of great value (primarily little sculptures) after his father’s death, in the 1890s, which were also the years of his greatest scientific and professional isolation.