A Freud Museum Exhibition Plumbs Meanings — intransit.blogs.nytimes.com

Enter and you’re drawn to a headless, 300-pound male plaster figure suspended from the ceiling. Continue through a set of white doors and nine headless terra-cotta statues placed side by side on one of two white desks pull your attention away from the small, wood-framed mirror attached to the center of the window. You’re visiting Sigmund Freud’s former treatment room and study in Vienna. This space, where the father of psychoanalysis spent nearly a half century, and since 1971 has been a focal point of the Sigmund Freud Museum, had never housed a special exhibition until Oct. 16, when the New York-based artist Brandt Junceau’s “Vandal” opened.

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