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Dr Hanna Segal

Sue Lawley's castaway is psychoanalyst Dr Hanna Segal.

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the psychoanalyst Dr Hanna Segal. Hanna Segal is one of the most distinguished psychoanalysts of our time. She was born in Poland at the end of the First World War and after a sometimes difficult childhood her family moved to Switzerland and then France to flee the Nazis. They ended up on a Polish troop ship that brought them to Britain just in time, as she says, for the Blitz.

As a teenager she was passionate about aesthetics and politics but did not know how how to combine her passions in a career - once she discovered the work of Sigmund Freud she knew her calling lay in psychoanalysis. Her mentor was Melanie Klein and she wrote what has become a standard text about her work. Dr Segal has written too about psychoanalysis and aesthetics and our response to the threat posed by nuclear weapons. She has held the post of Freud Professor at University College London and is a past president of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Now aged 87, she continues to work overseeing student analysts and giving seminars.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: 2nd movement of String Quartet in C Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Luxury: A snorkel and Polaroids

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Fri 28 Jul 2006 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major 'Trout' - 4th movement

    Soloist: Emil Gilels, Norbert Brainin, Peter Schidlof, Martin Lovett & Rainer Zeppertiz

    • Schubert Trout Quintet, Death and the Maiden.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 - 3rd movement (Marche fun猫bre)

    Soloist: Artur Rubinstein

    • Chopin: Preludes. Sonata No. 2.
    • RCA.

  • John Goss

    The Internationale

    • The Rise of Communism - documentary recordings.
    • Opal.

  • Marlene Dietrich

    Lilli Marlene

    • Marlene.
    • Music Club.

  • 脡dith Piaf

    Les Blouses Blanches

    • Piaf at the Paris Olympia.
    • Columbia.

  • Jos茅phine Baker

    J'ai Deux Amours

    • Paris! Oh Que J'aime Paris.
    • Flapper.

  • Paul Robeson

    Ol' Man River

    • A Lonesome Road.
    • ASV.

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      2nd movement of String Quartet in C Minor

      Orchestra: Emerson String Quartet

      • Emerson String Quartet: String Quartets by Mozart & Haydn.
      • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Book Choice

    • A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu - Marcel Proust

  • Luxury Choice

    • A snorkel and Polaroids

Credits

Presenter Sue Lawley
Interviewed Guest Dr Hanna Segal

Broadcasts

  • Sun 23 Jul 2006 11:15
    大象传媒 Radio 4
  • Fri 28 Jul 2006 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 4

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