The Kaffeehaus allows different people and their concepts to clash and to change. Kokoschka later wrote about Loos that he used architectural elements as a language, and that Kraus viewed language as the thought-space of its speakers . The Kaffeehaus with its Melange of guests allows a constant. The difference between coffee house thought and official institutions of knowledge lies not primarily in the contents of thought, but in the quality. The movement , like a movement in music, sweeps one away, melts the individuals' thoughts and boils them together like coffee and milk are inseparably combined in the Melange .
Thought is propelled by emotional intensity.
At one table, a heated discussion about a theater production might go on while at another, women had a glass of wine while waiting. The erotic component of movements cannot be neglected. Franz Kafka met his letter-love Milena there. Milena at that time was still living with writer Ernst Polak in a very open marriage. Some have ascribed the Herrenhof's alleged promiscuity to the influence of Sigmund Freud and his followers in that circle, but coffee house frequenters have touched upon the subject of thought and emotional intensity before.