2006

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian revolution, OSA Archives has copied and digitized the Hungarian refugee interviews conducted in 1957 and 1958 within the framework of the Columbia Research Project Hungary (CURPH). After the suppression of the revolution almost two hundred thousand Hungarian citizens opted to escape and find a new home abroad. They were not only the primary eye-witnesses to the revolution itself but also to life under Communism. The Soviet bloc during and after the Stalin era was a hermetically closed orbit. The self-image projected by these regimes seemed both enigmatic and threatening to outside observers. Therefore, the Hungarian refugees, like other Eastern European refugees who managed to flee to the West throughout the 1950s taking with them their experiences and knowledge, were a...

In 1918 Freud regarded Budapest as a possible center for the European psychoanalytical movement. His opinion was based partly on Sándor Ferenczi himself and a decade of cooperation and friendship, and partly on the psychoanalytical community that Ferenczi had created.
This idea was supported by the city's avant-garde intelligentsia, who played a crucial role in determining the city's atmosphere. The capital of Hungary, Budapest was rapidly modernizing and open to a new "human perspective" (Ignotus).

The exhibition presents the decades of the beginnings and evolution of the Hungarian psychoanalytical movement through the life of Ferenczi, his family, professional and private relationships, as well as through the intense relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, fine arts and political sciences.

Budapest became...