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Freud Museum in Vienna

“Is this some kind of ego trip?” I asked Candi in my best Austrian psychologist voice. We were preparing to visit, of all things, the Sigmund Freud museum in Vienna. Without missing a beat, Candi replied, “Why yes, and I will be wearing a Freudian slip,” and we both almost fell down laughing. It is even funnier since Candi is a Jungian analyst I met at the Jung Center in Switzerland, interested in the Carl Jung’s (http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/jung.html) work that I am, and like to think of myself as an amateur analyst. It turned out Candi and I both lived in Chicago when we met, about a five minute drive from each, and we do not recall ever meeting. We often wonder if we would have met if we had not gone to Switzerland and I hit on her. “Now zen,” I said, evoking the spirit of the great doctor, or a poor attempt at his voice, “what do you think of the hotels Vienna Austria has, very beautiful, no? Now, what do you say you lie down on the couch and tell me all about it,” but Candi would have none of it. Now it turns out the good doctor lived there his professional life until he had to leave in 1938, and you can the actual couch, or something like it, and the place looks like he could have just been there moments before. The original waiting room furniture is there, but it turns out the famous couch went to London with him in ’38, and there wasn’t much in the apartment except plaques and photographs, and from the outside a church overlooks the area. Later, we went for a nice lunch of some schnitzel, as were museum-ed out and needed a respite, and had a beer or three, one in honor of Freud and for the super-ego.

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