Freud in Vienna

This is the old Jewish quarter of Vienna where Freud spent much of his early life. Although he wasn't born there he lived in Vienna for many years until he was forced into exile in England in 1938. It was in Vienna that Freud saw many of his most famous patients, Anna 'O', the 'Ratman' and Dora- "No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed."
From Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, 1905.

The whole city reminds us of what it must have been like in the early 1900's, the avant garde paintings by Klimt in the art galleries, the elegant opera, the parks and lake. We will be studying Freud after the Christmas holiday in early January.