For:: General public
Time:: From 17.30 to 19.00
Place:: Auditorium
Price:: Free access. Prior booking request

Tickets on sale from 5 October online and on tel. +34 917 911 370 (from 12.00 to 20.00)

To coincide with the exhibition devoted to the relationship between Salvador Dalí and Sigmund Freud, the museum is organising a series of lectures by some of the leading international experts on Dalí's work and Surrealism. Over five sessions, the programme offers an in-depth focus on the influence of Freudian thought on the artist and analyses how this is reflected in some of the most unique aspects of his work.

Lectures programme:

Wednesday, 28 October

Sigmund Freud, a second father to Salvador Dalí
Ian Gibson
Hispanist and writer

Wednesday, 4 November

Imperfect adolescent brush (or Dalí before Freud)
Juan José Lahuerta
Architect, art historian and essayist. Specialist in the artistic avant-gardes and in the visual culture of the 19th and 20th centuries

Wednesday, 11 November

Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Julio Romero de Torres: two eccentric influences on Dalí’s work
Jaime Brihuega
Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Wednesday, 18 November

Pleasure against reality in the art of Salvador Dalí*
Alyce Mahon
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Cambridge

Wednesday, 25 November

The unconscious in a gilded frame: Dalí and Freud after 1940*
Elliot King
Professor of Art History, Washington and Lee University (United States)

*Simultaneous translation into Spanish will be provided for these lectures.