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Sigmund Freud Museum in London Celebrates 25th Anniversary on Thursday

LONDON.- What was life like for the father of psychoanalysis who made a profession of analyzing the lives of others? Insights into how Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis whose work on human sexual repression led to terms as “Freudian slip” and “Oedipus complex,” lived can be found at the Freud Museum London which celebrates its 25th anniversary on Thursday. The large brick, early 20th-century house in north London is where Freud spent his final year after fleeing Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938 before dying on September 23, 1939, at age 83. Anna Freud, the youngest of his six children who was also a psychoanalyst, had arranged before her death in 1982 to have the house transformed into a museum in 1986. The museum now receives 20,000 visitors a year, according to director Carol Seigel. “His work has permeated many aspects of our