Last October, Professor Peter Gay, an authority on European intellectual history, delivered the 1980 Freud Lectures at Yale. The series of four public lectures were on the general topic “Conflicts: Middle Class Minds and Mixed Feelings in 19th Century Culture.”

Professor Gay's four lectures, given in the Art Gallery Lecture Hall, were as follows: (October 14) “Study Guiding the Ascent of Genius: Approaches to the Nude;” (October 16) “We Are Already Approaching the Tunnel Where There Have Already Been Three Accidents Since the Beginning of the Month: Roads to Mastery;” (October 21) “Interior, with Table, Pictures and Lamp: Comfort and its Competitor;” (October 23) “The Lion In Love: Civilization as Defense.”

The 1980 Freud Lectures are sponsored by Mrs. Laura Love Rose, of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in memory of her mother, Elizabeth Allen Love. Cooperating in the sponsorship are the Western New England Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Humanities Center at Yale.