![]() ![]() It reads like a first book, with the author eager to get everything he knows on paper. The book provides a semi-autobiographical look into the bourgeois world of late 19th century Vienna, taking us behind the 'great man' myth to reveal a Freud enjoying his children, taking holidays in the Alps, dealing with his friends and colleagues and seeking professional success. ![]() Reviews, and there were not many, were mostly unfavorable, and the first English translation, by AA Brill, was not released until 1913. Only 600 copies were printed of the first edition of one of the most influential books in history, and these took eight years to sell. The result was that the work which made his name, The Interpretation of Dreams ( Die Traumdeutung in German) was not published until he was in his mid-40s, and even then it took over a decade for the book to become famous. But his ambition to be a renowned medical researcher came up against his desire to marry his fiancee Martha Bernays, and to provide for a home he had to actually get work practicing medicine. ![]() He slowly entered the field of neurology, writing scientific papers on speech disorders, the effects of cocaine as an anesthetic, and child cerebral paralyses, before shifting his interests to psychopathology. ![]() Not many people realize that Freud was a relatively slow-starter.Although the top of his class for most of his school life, he spent eight years studying medicine and other subjects at university before graduating. ![]()
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