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home, designed by Heinrich 7 Josephinum
von Ferstel in the style of the Währingerstrasse 25. Map 1 C2.
Italian Renaissance, was Tel 40 160-26 001. % Schottentor.
completed in 1883. v 37, 38, 40, 41, 42. Open 10am–
The university complex has 6pm Mon–Sat. Closed public
its buildings arranged around holidays. &
one large and eight smaller
court yards. The courtyard arcades, Designed by Isidor Canevale
modelled on the Palazzo Farnese and built in 1783–85, this
in Rome, are adorned with building once housed the
statues of famous scholars Sigmund Freud’s waiting room in the Military Surgical Institute. Life-
associated with Vienna University, Freud-Museum sized anatomical wax models,
including one of Freud. 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 –
University Campus
Berggasse No. 19, a typical
20th-century Viennese town Alser Strasse 4/Spitalgasse 2.
house, 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
1891–1938. Here he created 606. Open 10am–6pm Wed,
his most acclaimed works and 10am–1pm Sat. Closed public
treated patients before he was holidays. ∑ univie.ac.at
forced to flee Austria at 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 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. trunk. His walking stick can also It was inaugurated in 1998
v 1, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 71, D. be seen here. A cabinet contains as university campus. The
Open 7am–6pm daily. 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. Tower) of the former lunatic
1853, stands this Neo-Gothic A Foundation for the Arts asylum, designed by architect
church with its two 99-m was initiated in 1989 in order Isidor Canevale, now houses
(325-ft) high, lacy steeples to confront a scientific institution the Federal Museum for
completed 26 years later as a with contemporary art. 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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