Analyse this: has Freud's sofa become a religious relic?

In London, the Freud Museum is inviting the public to watch them restore the psychoanalyst's famous couch. Meanwhile, an exhibition of Klimt and Schiele paintings evoke the sensuality of Vienna in Freud's timeThe shadow of Sigmund Freud still looms over modern culture. Freud is so famous that his couch is venerated like a religious relic. An exhibit at the Freud Museum in London in September lets visitors see the process of restoring the celebrated piece of furniture upon which patients once relayed their dreams to the inventor of psycholanalysis.The Freud Museum is the house in north London where Freud spent the last part of his life, surrounded by his art collection and books, after the Nazis forced him to flee Vienna, the city where he worked as a doctor and wrote pioneering books such as The Interpretation of Dreams and The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.While his couch is being conserved, the cultural world in which Freud excavated the layers of the unconscious mind is laid bare this autumn at London's National Gallery. Its exhibition, Facing the Modern: the Portrait in Vienna 1900 features Vienna's greatest artists – Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele – who analysed sexuality and dreams at the exact moment when Freud was uncovering the psyche.Another of Freud's books is Civilisation and Its Discontents. The civilisation of the Austro-Hungarian empire at the start of the 20th century had a lot of discontents: nationalist politicians, including antisemites, were shaking ...
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