Past Exhibitions
			On the Couch. Cartoons from the New Yorker 23 March - 8 July 2007 at the Sigmund Freud Museum In 1928, the first caricature involving psychoanalysis appeared in the prestigious magazine "The New Yorker", and since then a large number of images of high artistic and humoristic value have been published. The Sigmund Freud Museum is presenting a show featuring funny, sophisticated and aesthetical cartoons from the magazine. A total of 80 drawings have been selected by curator Michael Freund, and they are on view in the special exhibition space. "The New Yorker" is a paragon of high aesthetic and cultural standards, whereby its caricatures are of pivotal importance. Bringing the cartoons to the rooms where Sigmund Freud lived for several decades makes them all the more interesting." The cartoons show the development and the diversity of the reactions to psychoanalysis and report the influence of psychoanalysis on everyday life. Sigmund Freud himself often devoted his attention to jokes. His 1905 book "Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious" is simultaneously a scientific investigation of the fundamental nature of humor and an unusual joke collection. The exhibition, conceived in 2006 with the support of the Cultural Section of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is on view in its entirety for the first time in Austria. To date the exhibition has been shown at the Museum of the City of New York, the Freud Museum London, Freud's Dream Museum in St. Petersburg and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague. Bibliophile Edition (Vienna) is publishing a book on the occasion of the exhibition with a foreword (in German) by Michael Freund, which is on sale in the Sigmund Freud Museum Shop for €19.80.