Pippa Goldschmidt – Writer, Scientist, Scholar

Is it even possible to believe in the ‘two-cultures’ dichotomy in a virtual post-Freudian cyber age? No-one embodies, and operates from all the positions implicit in such an age more comprehensively than Pippa Goldschmidt.

Scientist, cultural commentator, scholar, literary critic and novelist, Dr Goldschmidt has already celebrated a Freud Centenary with her edited collection on ‘The Uncanny’ last year. She truly is a ’donna universale’ for our time, and it’s only too appropriate that she recently co-wrote a paper on creative equality in art-science for a journal titled simply Leonardo

Here she is writing on her ‘Uncanny’ project: Uncanny Bodies