Sigmund Freud Museum
Freud’s former apartment and consulting rooms at Berggasse 19, Vienna, Austria. See Vienna (Literary).
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither Here Nor There | Bill Bryson | turning point | A near-empty flat that leads Bryson into the chapter’s closing argument about Austrian anti-Semitism. |
Neither Here Nor There — Bill Bryson (1991)
Source: Readwise highlight
Late one afternoon I went to the Sigmund Freud museum, in his old apartment on Berggasse, a mile or so to the north of the downtown.
- Role: turning point
- In the book: Chapter 19. Of the apartment’s sixteen rooms only four are open, with almost no furniture and a few effects (a hat and walking stick, a medical bag, a steamer trunk), for thirty schillings. The reason the real belongings are elsewhere leads him into Austria’s treatment of its Jews. Walking back along Karl Luegerstrasse he sees Kurt Waldheim’s limousine pass.
- Why it matters: The visit is the hinge from comic travelogue to the chapter’s satirical close; set anywhere else in Vienna, the argument would lack its prompt.