The double story dwelling where Freud spent the last year of his life after fleeing Vienna is a humble brick affair. However, he brought his impressive collection of antiquities comprising Egyptian miniatures, Buddhist statuettes, Babylonian figures and more. The house he occupied in Vienna before being harassed by the Nazis is empty of Freud's possessions.
In Sigmund's study is the rug covered chaise-long on which his patients reclined and unraveled their subconscious tapestries. The "Wolf Man" underwent psychoanalysis on that very couch. He was dubbed the Wolf Man not because he beared any resemblance to Michael J Fox, but because he dreamed of wolves in trees, and painted the dreams.
Freud's daughter, Anna, spent the rest of her life here, receiving numerous accolades for her work on child psychology. I buy a pen as a souvenir, and a big book of Jewish jokes for my father.
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