A guide told me that this coffeeshop in Vienna is where Sigmund Freud hanged out a lot. I don't know why, but this statement was enough for me to have a strong urge to hang out in this unimpressive place. I don't subscribe to Freud's psychodynamic blah blah but I definitely appreciate the kind of genius that goes with such a creative play of the mind. How could he have thought of his psychodynamic theory in the midst of a dominant introspectionisst and behaviorist paradigm? That for me is creativity at its best -- a kind of thinking that is way-out-of-the-box considering the context that he was in during that time.So there I was, slowly sipping my coffee (so that it would last a few hours, ang mahal kasi!) hoping that somehow Freud's spirit is still there and his creative mind would descend upon me. Weird, but somehow, the thought of sitting around where a great person used to hang out is enough for me to feel that a tiny bit of his genius has rubbed off in me (hehe).
