September 25, 2007: Freud's Case of "Dora" & Social History of Coffee/Coffeehouses

Lecture:  The Case of Dora

The Case of “Dora”: 1900-1901, publ. 1905

Background information on the treatment and Freud's involvement in the case.

Dora's symptoms. Father makes her see Freud.

Dora’s family relationships

The K. Family & relationships to Dora   

Treatment with Freud

Discussion of Dora.

 In-Class Writing Assignment:  Either a) describe how Schorske contrasts the two authors Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal or b) write on something of interest to you in that chapter.  

Lecture:  Social History of Coffee & the Viennese Coffeehouse

Social History of Coffee & the Coffeehouse in Western Europe: Arabian Origins

three new luxury beverages entering Western Europeean culture in the late 17th century

Protestant v. Catholic preferences

Coffee & the Protestant Culture: 

Replace beer & wine as nutritional staples

Coffee & Protestant Work Ethic

Public/Private Venues

Coffeehouses:  late 17th/18th century

place for bourgeois men to congregate and do business

associeted with certain groups (literary, bankers, etc.)

Coffee & the Private Sphere:

feature of bourgeois family life

public coffeehouses v. Kaffeeklatsch

Bourgeois Coffee v. Aristocratic Hot Chocolate: 

Lecture: The Viennese Coffeehouse:

Nobelcafés

aristocratic opulence:  tuxedoed waiters; gilded, silver, or bronze fixtures; small, round, marble tables; soft lighting; dark walls; smoke-filled (esp. cigars!); pool tables; chess sets & cards; wide array of international newspapers & literary publications (on sticks) for patrons to read; club atmosphere; different rooms; solarium with interior garden; special red-damask room for ladies to be served “frozen cream”

between public & private spheres: home away from home

Fin-de-Siècle Coffeehouses:

•     Café Griensteidl: (Herbertstein Palais near Hofburg, since 1847) home of Young Vienna/Young Austria writers (Jung Wien/ Jung Österreich) = birthplace of Austrian literary modernism:  Hermann Bahr, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arthur Schnitzler, Felix Salten, Karl Kraus, Peter Altenberg —> Impressionism.  Until 1897 when Palais Herbertstein = turned into an apt building.

•     Café Central:  (Herrengasse) until 1925.  Jung Wien = moved there + Franz Werfel, Otto Weininger;

•     Café Imperial:  (Kärtner Ring, since 1873):  Kraus, Altenberg, HvH, RM Rilke, F. Werfel, Freud, L. Trotzky (1907-1914), Brahms, & Mahler;