Speakers: Lisa Appignanesi, Stephen Frosh, Eva Hoffman, John Launer, Rachel Lasserson

Lisa Appignanesi, Stephen Frosh, Eva Hoffman and John Launer discuss how sex became a scandal, not only in the so-called “dangerous method”, psychoanalysis, but also beyond the consulting room. Early 20th century Europe was a cauldron of fertile ideas, Victorian repression, antisemitism and illicit liaisons. John Launer’s Sex versus Survival: the Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein recounts how sex and Jewishness (and Jewish sex) became a battleground between Freud and Jung. Cultural commentator Rachel Lasserson will do her best to keep this conversation within acceptable limits.