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...Sigmund Freud...
...rightly regarded as the father of modern psychiatry -- as revolutionary a thinker as Darwin, as daring an explorer of the interior world as Columbus was of the exterior. Sigmund Freud not only developed the most profound theory to explain the workings of the human mind, but he also devised much of the terminology -- from Oedipus complex to penis envy -- that has become part of the language. The discipline he founded, psychoanalysis, became the world's most famous technique for helping the troubled come to grips with the demons haunting their minds...
...good cigar was an accessory of manly success for at least a century. Prominent puffers included Winston Churchill, Al Capone, Groucho Marx, Jack Kennedy, even Sigmund Freud and Vladimir Lenin. Then came the 1964 Surgeon General's report on the perils of smoking and a sea change in American attitudes toward tobacco that eventually pushed sales into a steady decline. Cigar fans faced not only dirty glares but also signs and waiters telling them to butt out of public places...
...University, complains that he has seen "an increasing number of too small classes and too many courses. We have about 150 courses that study the human mind. But all that we know about the human mind could be taught in 30. A course on the effect of Anna on Sigmund Freud is fine. But it's part of the waste that is commonplace at big research universities. Small colleges cannot afford that kind of narcissism...
...world with his father, a college professor, and encounters some of the most famous people and events of the early 20th century. Indy serves as a courier at the Battle of Verdun, meets the young Picasso in Paris, goes big-game hunting with Teddy Roosevelt, matches wits with Sigmund Freud and even has a hot romance with Mata Hari. There are thrills and chills, but also -- here's where the derring-do comes in -- a dose of history, philosophy and social commentary. As young Indy might put it, "Holy smokes...