The new exhibition of the Sigmund Freud Museum's permanent collection offers an overview over his life and work, connected to the original functions of the rooms where Freud and his family lived. Originally preserved spatial structures reveal an authentic experience of the birthplace of psychoanalysis, and the various exhibits (objects, historical manuscripts, photographs) highlight the professional stations and biographical facettes of Freud’s professional and family life. This layer of information is in many ways closely connected to the history of each respective room: the practice of psychoanalysis and the so-called “talking cure” is addressed with the help of case histories and texts in Freud’s former treatment room. Anna Freud’s adjacent living and practice rooms are dedicated to her work of combining psychoanalysis and pedagogy. The private rooms of the Freud family are dedicated to Freud’s life as a family father and his career path as a young physician and neurologist. Original pieces of furniture have found their way into the exhibition for the first time including a dresser on loan from the Freud Museum London which, along with its accompanying intarsia table, makes up part of the original, historical ensemble of the Herrenzimmer (gentlemen’s salon). More ...