The story of this place
At Berggasse 19, Sigmund Freud lived and practised for 47 years from 1891, founding psychoanalysis and receiving patients on the famous couch in his study. Here he wrote The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) and developed the ideas of the unconscious, the ego and the id that reshaped psychology, art and culture. In 1938, after the Anschluss, the 82-year-old Freud—a Jew whose books the Nazis had burned—was forced to flee to London, where he died in 1939. Four of his sisters perished in the Holocaust. His apartment is now a museum to the mind and its exile.