In his introduction to Berggasse 19, a compilation of photographs that Edmund Engelman took of Sigmund Freud's home and office just before the father of psychoanalysis fled Nazi-occupied Vienna, biographer Peter Gay detailed Freud's symbolic absence from Austria's capital after World War II. Noting the lack of tourist brochures, street names, and statues celebrating Freud in
Oscar Nemon
Karl Lueger vs Sigmund Freud: A Disturbing Contrast in Vienna’s Legacies
For most of my week in Vienna, my experience of the city was so positive as to be a bit surreal. I remembered Vienna from the early 1970s -- the only time I'd visited before -- as being gloomy and dour. I also imagined that, given what I'd learned over the last few years about my family's history, I would be coping with a lot of difficult emotions. Not so. The
Inspiring My Vienna Visit: A Talk About Freud & Oscar Nemon
Several people have asked: What finally spurred you to visit Vienna this June? Good question. I've been wanting to go for more than 2½ years, ever since I found out about the connection between my great uncle, Siegmund Kornmehl, and Vienna's Sigmund Freud Museum, but had been dragging my heels. Money, ambivalence, pet care...I always had an excuse not to go. With the need