Vienna, Nazis, Jews, and Women Part 2

A feminist in 1986 thinks about “the masculine principle.”

Alma Mahler and Oskar Kokoschka

To bring us back to where we left off.

In 1986, I visited Vienna during the campaign of Kurt Waldheim, a former Nazi, who was running for President of Austria and would win. While I was in the city, I spoke to Jews and feminists. In the piece I wrote in the Village Voice, I described a visit to Freud’s house as well as an e…