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Sigmund Freud

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"We are so made, that we can only derive intense enjoyment from a contrast, and only very little from a state of things."
Civilization and its Discontents (1930)

 

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Why War?
The Einstein-Freud Letters


BBC Radio 4
December 29th 2023


In 1932 Albert Einstein in Potsdam wrote to Sigmund Freud in Vienna. Why war? the pioneering physicist asked the founder of psychotherapy.

Was there a solution to this age-old catastrophe? Freud's response was surprising.

 


"The dream never
concerns itself with trifles;
we do not allow sleep to be disturbed by trivialities."


Sigmund Freud
(1856-1939)

Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis. Born in Freiberg, Moravia (today Pribor in the Czech Republic). Died in Hampstead, London.

From 1860-1938 Freud lived in Vienna where in 1899 he heralded a new century with his groundbreaking work The Interpretation of Dreams
.

From 1891 Freud lived and worked at Berggasse 19 in Vienna's 9th district.


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