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home, designed by Heinrich von 7 Josephinum
Ferstel in Italian Renaissance Währingerstrasse 25. Map 1 C2.
style, was completed in 1883. Tel 40 160-26 001. % Schottentor.
The university complex has v 37, 38, 40, 41, 42. Open 10am–
its buildings arranged around 6pm Mon–Sat. Closed public
one large and eight smaller holidays. &
court yards. The courtyard arcades,
modelled on the Palazzo Farnese Designed by Isidor Canevale
in Rome, are adorned with and built in 1783–5, this
statues of famous scholars building once housed the
associated with Vienna University, Sigmund Freud’s waiting room in the Military Surgical Institute. Life-
including one of Freud. Freud-Museum sized anatomical wax models,
commissioned by Joseph II to
6 Freud-Museum teach human anatomy to his
Berggasse 19. Map 2 A1. army surgeons, are now the
Tel 31 91 596. % Schottentor. main attraction of the medical
v 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, D. @ 40A. museum based here today.
Open 10am–6pm daily. &
∑ freud-museum.at 8 Old AKH –
Berggasse No. 19, a typical 19th- University Campus
century Viennese town house, Alser Strasse 4/Spitalgasse 2.
was the home of Sigmund Map 1 A1, B1. % Schottentor.
Freud, the famous doctor and Federal Museum of Pathological
father of psychoanalysis, from Anatomy: Spitalgasse 2. Tel 521 77
1891 to 1938. Here he wrote his 606. Open 10am–6pm Wed,
most acclaimed works and 10am–1pm Sat. Closed public
treated patients before he was holidays. ∑ univie.ac.at
forced to flee Austria on the
arrival of the Nazis. Vienna’s Old General Hospital
Neo-Gothic stone figures from the façade The room in which Freud (AKH), built in 1784, was
of the Votivkirche received patients is on the dona ted to the University of
mezzanine floor. In the small, Vienna in 1988 and adapted
5 Votivkirche dark lobby hangs Freud’s frayed to house the 15 academic
hat; in a corner stands his travel faculties of the university.
Rooseveltplatz. Map 2 A2. Tel 40 61
192. % Schottentor. v 1, 37, 38, 40, trunk. His walking stick can also It was inaugurated in 1998
41, 42, 43, 44, 71, D. Open 7am–6pm be seen here. A cabinet contains as the university campus. The
daily. ∑ votivkirche.at some archaeological objects huge complex consists of
collected by Freud. The world- several buildings around one
Opposite the spot where famous couch, however, is now vast and 12 smaller courtyards.
a deranged man tried to on display in the Freud Museum The Narrenturm (Madman’s
assassi nate Franz Joseph I in in London. There is a research Tower) of the former lunatic
1853, stands this Neo-Gothic library and archive on site. asylum, designed by architect
church with its two 99-m- Visitors can book an evening Isidor Canevale, now houses
(325-ft-) high, lacy steeples meal, for up to 12 guests, in the the Federal Museum for
completed 26 years later as a former consulting room. Pathological Anatomy.
grateful offering for sparing
the emperor’s life. The architect Freud’s Theories
was Heinrich von Ferstel.
The most beautiful historic With his theory of psychoanalysis,
relic in the Votivkirche is its late- Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) has
15th-century Antwerpian altar, exerted a lasting influence not only
a masterpiece of Flemish on medicine but also on our culture
woodcarving, representing generally. In 1896 he coined the term
scenes from Christ’s Passion. “psychoanalysis”. According to Freud,
The main portal sculptures the unconscious psyche, driven by certain
depict the four Evangelists and instincts and impulses, in particular
figures from the Old Testament, the sexual instinct (libido), is the main
engine behind all our conscious and
along with four patrons of the unconscious actions. An imbalance
empire’s regions. in the psychological system, so Freud
Many of the chapels inside suggested, could lead to very serious
the church are dedicated to emotional disorders and might result Various objects used by
the Austrian regiments and in severe mental disturbance. Sigmund Freud
to military heroes.

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