Psychology of the Unconscious - A Study of the Transformations, and Symbolisms of the Libido, a Contribution to the History of the Evolution of Thought #219833

When Professor Freud of Vienna made his early discoveries in the realm of the neuroses, and announced that the basis and origin of the various symptoms grouped under the terms hysteria and neuroses lay in unfulfilled desires and wishes, unexpressed and unknown to the patient for the most part, and concerned chiefly with the sexual instinct, it was not realized What far reaching influence this unpopular and bitterly attacked theory would exert on the understanding of human life in general.