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Buenos Aires

Where to Stay

Near Villa Freud, Costa Petit Hotel’s four antique-filled rooms surround a jasmine-draped garden and fittingly tiny pool.

Costa Rica 5141, 54-11-4776-8296, costapetithotel.com

Where to Eat

It’s all Freud all the time at the bar affectionately called Sigi, where the walls and even the sugar bowls are adorned with his bearded image.

Charcas 3601, 54-11-4824-4366

Psychology students from a nearby university relax at Psicosis, which offers sandwiches named for psychological pathologies.

Hipólito Yrigoyen 3199

What to Do

Write down your thoughts on stationery from Molineros del Borda, which is handcrafted by patients at the José T. Borda Psychiatric Hospital. (Patients also run a radio show on Saturdays.)

Molineros del Borda Ramón Carrillo 375, 54-11-4304-5546, molinerosdelborda.com.ar

Radio La Colifata (Radio Crazy), 100.1 MHz, lacolifata.org

Eternautas offers custom-planned sociologist-led tours.

54-11-4384-7874, eternautas.com

Resources

Read up on Argentina’s passion for psychoanalysis in Freud in the Pampas by Mariano Ben Plotkin.



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