On New Years Day, the urn containing Sigmund Freud’s ashes was found to be, like the future of psychoanalysis, in shambles. The Guardian reports that the shards of the urn, which dates back to 300 B.C. and was part of Freud’s collection of antiques, were found on the floor of London’s Golders Green crematorium. The urn contained both the ashes of Freud, who died in 1939, as well as his wife, Martha Bernay, who died in 1951.
And our great father of psychoanalysis? The article doesn’t mention the fate of the ashes, reporting only that “Staff at the crematorium said the urn was severely damaged, and had now been moved to a secure location. Security at the site is being reviewed.”
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