Francesca Stavrakopoulou
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Yeah, I really want to find her too, and if that's my contribution towards... I mean, it was real.
It was like, yeah.
There was no hesitation about, no, she's not there.
It was quite specific that there were two people in that grave.
On the other side.
Is that the tree that you were talking about?
Yeah, definitely.
Definitely, that's 100%.
Thank you.
Oh gosh, that's a huge question.
So Freud, as you said, Freud is writing in the late 1930s and he's living in a world in which it's not easy to be Jewish.
He's Jewish.
Exactly.
And so this is a time of heightened anxieties, heightened, certainly heightened antisemitism.
Antisemitism was a part of British culture anyway.
But obviously what's going on with the rise of Nazism in Germany and obviously the Second World War is just around the corner.
It's a very difficult time.
But he's also writing at a time in which everything ancient Egypt is mega exciting still.
So if you think about it, Tutankhamun, the tomb was discovered in 1922.
That is still really new.