In discussion at TripAdvisor I learned of Freud's journey to Orvieto in 1897 and its importance in development of his concepts.Someone asked why he would have gone to Orvieto. The answer is surely in that Orvieto was on the rail line from Florence to Rome... and magnificence of the location and the cathedral. As seen in this our blog entry in 2010.
It is very likely that in 1897 Freud was armed with a Baedeker, legendary travel guide. And carrying the burden of his father's death the year before.
My Baedeker for Central Italy and Rome is the 1909 edition. It's an excellent guide to Orvieto, given that most things in Orvieto of interest predate 1909 and the text may have been the same in 1897.
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| Title page and map frontispiece Baedeker Central Italy and Rome 1909 |
Orvieto is found in Route 11. These routes of Baedeker are interesting to compare with most current routes.
The route from Florence to Rome was not the present straight-ish line of fast trains but set out here.
And this is the Orvieto text. It speaks of the funicular. Freud would have taken the old funicular, replaced in 1900 by the new funicular. See history. This is of course a very modern old-new transition. Compare the Chiesa Nuova [New Church] in Rome, which replaced an older church in 1575.
The work most inspiring Freud was by Luca Signorelli, in what was then in 1909 and earlier the Capella Nuova [New Chapel] now known as the Capella San Brizio for the name of a saint featured in a painting there. See the top of page 102 above.
Click here for a detailed description of the San Brizio Chapel and photos of the works of Signorelli. Enter here the origins of psychoanalysis, the influence on the mind of Sigmund aged 40.
If you can't remember this page later, then it's almost certainly Signorelli Parapraxis.
So there you have it, a life challenge: can you remember this page or remember the term Signorelli Parapraxis? I leave to stranger minds to interpret outcomes.
....For more, read Nicholas Fox Weber's strange and self-indulgent Freud's Trip to Orvieto.
And this is the Orvieto text. It speaks of the funicular. Freud would have taken the old funicular, replaced in 1900 by the new funicular. See history. This is of course a very modern old-new transition. Compare the Chiesa Nuova [New Church] in Rome, which replaced an older church in 1575.
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The work most inspiring Freud was by Luca Signorelli, in what was then in 1909 and earlier the Capella Nuova [New Chapel] now known as the Capella San Brizio for the name of a saint featured in a painting there. See the top of page 102 above.
Click here for a detailed description of the San Brizio Chapel and photos of the works of Signorelli. Enter here the origins of psychoanalysis, the influence on the mind of Sigmund aged 40.
If you can't remember this page later, then it's almost certainly Signorelli Parapraxis.
So there you have it, a life challenge: can you remember this page or remember the term Signorelli Parapraxis? I leave to stranger minds to interpret outcomes.
....For more, read Nicholas Fox Weber's strange and self-indulgent Freud's Trip to Orvieto.
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