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...young man ambling through the great arcaded court at the University of Vienna was caught in fantasy. He was still a student, a nobody, a Jew in Franz Josef's Austria. Yet, as he admired the statues of great professors in the university's hall of fame, Sigmund Freud dreamed of a day when his own likeness would be there among the great; he even envisaged the inscription...
...riddle that entranced Sigmund Freud was the same that had entranced man through the ages-What...
...Eulogy. Sigmund Freud's membership in that fraternity will be formally recognized a fortnight hence, on May 6, when ceremonies at seats of learning in the Western world will commemorate the centennial of the birth of the man who devised psychoanalysis-the exploration of the Unconscious-and thereby opened the way to modern psychiatry and the treatment of man's aberrations. In Vienna, where Freud made his great exploration, there will be three memorial meetings. and wreaths will be laid at the base of his statue. From the University of Chicago some of Freud's most earnest...
...eulogy is needed, however, to dramatize the legacy of Sigmund Freud to his generation and generations to come. Christianity brought to Western civilization the conviction that man is governed by his God through his deathless soul. Along came the Renaissance and then the 18th century rationalists to counter this doctrine with another faith: man is re sponsible to reason alone; there is no God. no immortal soul. Then came Sigmund Freud to champion a newer hypothesis: man. without a God. is largely governed by a strange, little-known power called the Unconscious. It was a startling, indeed a discomfiting theory...
...Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, by Dr. Ernest Jones, brought Freud up to 1919 in the second volume of what may well be one of the major biographies of the decade. A psychoanalyst himself, Jones dug deep into the secret places of history's greatest Peeping...