Today in 1956: Sigmund Freud

Today in 1956: Sigmund Freud “The dark, intense 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 for it. Today, 80 years since the dream and 100 years since Freud was born, his bronze image stands in that dusty hall of fame, and below, just as he had conceived it, is the inscription from Sophocles: Who divined the famed riddle and was a man most mighty. The riddle that entranced Sigmund Freud was the same that had entranced man through the ages—What am I?" (April 23, 1956) Read the full story