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Tag Archives: Austria
1933: The Very Ideology to which it Owes its Origin
Wilhelm Reich on the connections among repression, sexual guilt (indoctrinated into children and adolescents through the family), patriarchy, capitalism, fascism, violent religious fanaticism, the construction of the other, and imperialism: The patriarchal authoritarian sexual order…becomes the primary basis of authoritarian … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Austria, Books, Capitalism, Demons, Fascism, Patriarchy, Psychology, Religion, Sex, Wilhelm Reich
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2013: The 387 Houses of Peter Fritz
Austrian insurance clerk Peter Fritz constructed these model buildings in the 1950’s and 1960’s, working with cardboard, matchboxes, wallpaper scraps, and magazine pages. They were discovered by artist Oliver Croy in 1993 in a Berlin junk shop, each in a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950's, 1960's, 2010's, 20th Century, 21st Century, Architecture, Austria, Miniatures, Oliver Croy, Peter Fritz
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1901: Max’s Monkeys
Gabriel von Max: Abelard and Heloise (after 1900). Max and his wife lived with as many as 14 monkeys. Here are some more examples of his work:
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Austria, Gabriel von Max, Monkeys, Painting, Portraits
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1904: A Nightmare
In 1904…I was staying at the Hotel Scholastika, on the borders of the Aachensee, in Austria. I dreamed one night that I was walking down a sort of pathway between two fields, separated from these last by high iron railings, … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Animals, Austria, Books, Dreams, Great Britain, Horses, J. W. Dunne, Oddities, Psychology, Time
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1902: Island
Gustav Klimt: Island in the Attersee (1902)
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Austria, Gustav Klimt, Painting, Water
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1915: Impermanence
In 1915, Sigmund Freud published a short essay, “On Transience,” in which he addresses in a succinct and poetic way the ideas he had developed for his book Mourning and Melancholia (1917). For Freud, these two states—mourning and melancholia—are different … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Anton Hansch, Austria, Buddhism, Language, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Melancholy, Mental Health, Psychology, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sigmund Freud, WWI
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1901: In the Fir Forest
Gustav Klimt: Fir Forest I (1901)
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Austria, Gustav Klimt, Painting, Trees
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