{"title": "The Shadow of the Object: Chloe Aridjis and Devorah Baum in conversation", "start": "2026-10-28T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-28T18:30:00Z", "place": "Freud Museum London", "address": "Maresfield Gardens 20, NW3 5SX London", "price": "Pay-What-You-Can, suggested donation £10-£15, minimum donation £1", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.freud.org.uk/join-support/membership/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "An online talk hosted by the Freud Museum London, where novelist Chloe Aridjis discusses her latest book 'The Shadow of the Object' with writer and critic Devorah Baum. The novel explores the emotional and psychological traces that objects leave behind, following Flora, a woman who meets an elderly German woman in hospital and is later entrusted with an important mission. The conversation covers memory, fantasy, the unconscious and the relationship between psychoanalysis and fiction. 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His stories move from the Balkans to the moon and beyond, finding the extraordinary in apparently ordinary lives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-man-with-many-names-georgi-gospodinov-in-conversation-wi-41632/", "official_url": "https://libreria.io/the-man-with-many-names-georgi-gospodinov-in-conversation-with-lea-ypi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db505f2fb83627b8835a7ff4b03ec3fa891a0ff2e1eff0dabca78a8bdec1ca61-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Outdoor Analyst: Sigmund Freud Beyond the Couch", "start": "2026-10-31T13:30:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T13:30:00Z", "place": "Freud Museum London", "address": "Maresfield Gardens 20, NW3 5SX London", "price": "Free with admission ticket", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["society/psychoanalysis"], "description": "A short 20-minute tour at the Freud Museum London that reveals a more personal and human side of Sigmund Freud. 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Writer Benoît Loiseau discusses his first book, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, in conversation with journalist and author Amelia Abraham. The book is a group biography whose five subjects are experimental health clinics that transformed medicine: a HIV research facility in New York City, a psychiatric clinic in France, a feminist-led health centre in Geneva, a sex clinic in Berlin and a preventive health centre in Peckham. Loiseau's investigation draws on his own encounters with medical care and interludes addressed to his mother, a health worker who shaped his life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-death-of-the-clinic-by-benoit-loiseau-book-launch-talk-36636/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/talks/book-launch-talk-the-death-of-the-clinic-by-benoit-loiseau", "image": "https://noky.io/images/548e4db8e0f12f5b9e9f22af9b87cb6b0984dd5aa27402296a45999414788dde-1200.webp"}]}