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Novellist Esther Freud |
Freud in psychoanalyst’s chair for talk on life with famous family
THE author of Hideous Kinky, novelist Esther Freud, will talk to a psychoanalyst about her life and motivating forces tonight (Friday).
Ms Freud lives in Highgate and is married to actor David Morrissey, seen in BBC TV’s Sense and Sensibility. They have three children.
At the Holloway talk with psychoanalyst John Tydeman, Ms Freud will discuss the influence of her family on her work. She is the daughter of artist Lucien Freud, and great-granddaughter of the pioneer of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Talking about her family, she said: “I was aware when I started writing of the need to stick my hand up and say: ‘Hello, I have something to say.’ The Freuds are a very large family with a lot of very strong characters trying to make their mark.
“As one of the younger ones it was very easy to feel quite invisible and I needed somehow to set down my side of the story.” She includes as a theme in her new novel, Love Falls, absent fathers and the coming-of-age of a 16-year-old girl.
“Something violent happens to the girl, who puts her own feelings of embarrassment before that of her safety.” she said. “A lot of young girls, including myself, have been in a similar position, when they are too scared to seek help. I fear that, even today, girls are still feeling pressure to be intimate with people because they don’t have the confidence to say no.”
Ms Freud started out as an actress but took to writing after becoming increasingly disenchanted at being out of work for long periods. She’s working on a new book dealing with the day-to-day struggles of actors.
“Having been an actor myself and now married to one, I thought there’s a whole world out there that hasn’t been explored,” she said. “I wouldn’t like to go back to acting because it’s too stressful. At least with writing you can bury yourself away for three to four hours a day. It’s so much more private and meditative.”
Ms Freud will talk about writing and the creative process at a Connecting Conversations event at The Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, from 7pm. Tickets can be booked at www.connectingconversations.org, by calling 07787 814316 or on the door, subject to availability.
Future events will feature children’s author Michael Rosen, playwright Mike Leigh and writer Al Alvarez. |
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