Family history of mental illness: How my ancestor lived, in a time before asylums.
Balter, his brother, and a 10-foot-square house.
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Balter, his brother, and a 10-foot-square house.
This week, digital editorial director Jennifer Krasinski introduces Louise Bourgeois’s essay “Freud’s Toys” from the January 1990 issue of Artforum. The exhibition “Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter” is at the Jewish Museum in New York through September 12.On the occasion of a 1990 exhibition of antiquities from the personal collection of Sigmund Freud, Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) wrote the essay “Freud’s Toys,” an interpretation of the possible function and meaning of these objects in the great doctor’s life and practice. “The collection is a document,” she decla...