Left: Rainer Maria Rilke around 1900 / Right: Sigmund Freud (Photography of Freud's son-in-law Max Halberstadt, 1921)
The correspondence between Rilke and Freud
Reading and Talk
The correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke and Sigmund Freud, published for the first time in SINN UND FORM 1/2025, is short but extremely interesting. When the two wrote to each other in Vienna in 1916, they discussed the war as a “monster” and Rilke’s intention to “go through” his emotional upheavals “alone”.
The talk between editor Ulrich von Bülow and Matthias Weichelt, Editor-in-chief of SINN UND FORM, will also focus on the estate acquired by the Marbach Literature Archive from Rilke’s family.