Sigmund Freud Magnet / Couch & Signature

Sigmund Freud Magnet / Couch & Signature

The Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria / Freud Museum London, UK

MDF/Magnet

[L 8.5cm]

This couch magnet shows the original couch from Sigmund Freud's clinic in London and is complete with Sigmund Freud's signature. Made in Germany.

Sigmund Freud’s Famous Psychoanalytic Couch in the Freud Museum London, United Kingdom

The centre piece of Sigmund Freud’s study – and indeed Sigmund Freud’s work – is his famous psychoanalytic couch. It has become a staple in depicting analysis; on film and television we see patients reclining on it before divulging their thoughts.

Freud’s couch was a present from a patient, a Madame Benvenisti, around 1890. The richly detailed Qashqa’i carpet on top, which Freud himself added, hides a rather plain body, with a rough wooden frame, piled with embroidered cushions. Once covered in the carpet and placed at the centre of Freud’s consulting room the couch gave Freud’s study gravitas and gave his patients a non-medical bed to lie on. [by courtesy Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna, Austria & Freud Museum London, UK]

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it. [Wikipedia]