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July 18, 2012
Sigmund Freud Speaks: The Only Known Recording of His Voice, 1938
I started my professional activity as a neurologist trying to bring relief to my neurotic patients. Under the influence of an older friend and by my own efforts, I discovered some important new facts about the unconscious in psychic life, the role of instinctual urges, and so on. Out of these findings grew a new science, psychoanalysis, a part of psychology, and a new method of treatment of the neuroses. I had to pay heavily for this bit of good luck. People did not believe in my facts and thought my theories unsavory. Resistance was strong and unrelenting. In the end I succeeded in acquiring pupils and building up an International Psychoanalytic Association. But the struggle is not yet over. -- Sigmund Freud. -- | Open Culture
Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 18, 2012 7:08 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.