Rachel Bowlby
Professor of English at the University of York who has written the introduction to the latest Penguin translation of Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer's Studies in Hysteria
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
Hysteria
Melvyn Bragg discusses a problematic notion which can be an emotional condition, a syndrome, an over-reaction, or the physical signs of trauma, which became the bedrock for psychoanalysis.
22 April 2004
Also featuring: Juliet Mitchell, Brett Kahr
Materialism and the Consumer
Melvyn Bragg examines the development and future of material culture. Are we hopelessly manipulated by materialism, or has the market developed to better our condition?
23 March 2000
Also featuring: William Gibson