On Sigmund Freud's tracks
Ritten/Renon, Bolzano/Bozen and environs
Freud Meeting with Francesco Marchioro, expert and historian of psychoanalysis, followed by a walk along the Freudpromenade. Each meeting tour has its own theme
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Freud Meeting with Francesco Marchioro, expert and historian of psychoanalysis, followed by a walk along the Freudpromenade.
Meeting point: Rittner Bahn/Train stop Lichtenstern at 10.45 a.m. (at 10.45 a.m. train from Klobenstein or Oberbozen). Costs: € 15, free with RittenCard.
Program 2026:
Friday, June 19: Freud: “Here on the Ritten it is divinely charming and comfortable” (1911),
Thursday, July 9: Freud, Art, and the Vienna Secession,
Thursday, August 6: Anna Freud and Marilyn Monroe (1926–2026),
Thursday, July 23: Freud meets Rilke (1926–2026),
Thursday, August 20: Freud and the City of Vienna,
Thursday, September 3: Freud: “Inhibition, Symptom and Anxiety” (1926–2026),
Thursday, October 8: Anna Freud “The Earth Pyramids, really splendid”.
Registration within the day before, 5 p.m. at tourist office Ritten/Renon.
"I need a place where I can be alone with a forest nearby..."
Letter of Freud to Jung (February 1911).
And how did this link between the ideal place for Bolzano residents to go for a bit of 'Sommerfrische', or summer cool, and the genius tourist Sigmund Freud come about? In a letter dating February 1911, he reveals to Carl Gustav Jung «Next summer. I need a place where I can be alone with a forest nearby».
So, before Easter, on Friday, the 14th of April, he leaves Vienna in the company of his friend and pupil Sandor Ferenczi and makes a quick tour lasting just six days to find a suitable place around Trento and Bolzano. He returns to Vienna the following Thursday and his research produces excellent results in the form of Ritten/Renon near Bolzano. Consequently, on the 9th of July, Freud sets off from Karlsbad, where he was staying to recover from a bout of 'American colitis', and joins his family at Klobenstein. This is where the Freuds celebrate their silver wedding anniversary, on 14th September - the enjoyment of their holiday thus being enhanced by love and affection. During his holiday at Ritten/Renon begun Freud to write the work? Totem and taboo
