Vienna: Sigmund Freud Museum

Although we have been to Vienna fairly often, we so far had missed out on visiting the Sigmund Freud Museum (same goes for London). This time we finally decided to do so.
The museum is actually Freud's former home and practice, before he left for London at the age of 82 fleeing the Third Reich regime, and I did know that it had a very limited scope. Indeed there were only very few original pieces of furniture and the documentation consisted mostly of photocopied illustrations and photos.

As a special exhibition the museum presented the work of New York artist Brandt Junceau which occasionally disrupted the actual historical ambience of the rooms (intendedly), but I was not impressed.

First Lines: Sigmund Freud - Civilization and Its Discontents

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurment - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

First Lines: Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams

In the following pages I shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and that on the application of this technique every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance, and one which may be assigned to a specific place in the psychic activities of the waking state.