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of opinion  \nunder whom we conduct our different lives...(W.H.Auden,In Memory of Sigmund Freud)  \nDespite distorted understandings of Freud's views and despite peri-odic waves of Freud-bashing,Auden's assessment remains essentiallycorrect.Freud's influence continues to be enormous and pervasive.He gave us a new and powerful way to think about and investigatehuman thought,action,and interaction.He made sense of ranges ofexperience generally neglected or misunderstood.And while onemight wish to reject or argue with some of Freud's particular interpre-tations and theories,his writings and his insights are too compellingto simply turn away.There is still much to be learned from Freud.  \nThe essays here collected focus on some of Freud's masterworksand some of his central concepts,trying to bring out the structure ofhis arguments and contributions to our self-understanding.  \nFreud was born in I856 in Freiberg in Moravia,but after his fam-ily's move when he was four years old,he passed almost all of hislong life in Vienna.The story of his life is the story of his thought.The great events were most often the occasions of his discoveriesand speculations.After his childhood move,the rest of his life can beviewed as a tale of four cities,the psychogeography of which isexplored by Carl Schorske.Vienna,embroiled in anti-Semitism,wasthe ambivalent scene of Freud's professional advances and defeats aswell as home to his contented family life.London was,from thebeginning until his flight there from Hitler in the last months of his  \nlife,capital of the land of hope and order,ideal site of the liberal ego.Paris,on the other hand,place of his early studies of hysteria withCharcot,provided the romantic center for his imagination,offeringthe attractions of the dangerous and alluringly irrational id.Andfinally Rome,embodying layers of history through which the arche-ologist can dig just as the depth psychologist can excavate the buriedpast,was the unapproachable city of his youthful ambitions andadult dreams,and it became the locus for a fitful reconciliation ofpolarities.  \nSome of the episodes of Freud's childhood are later recalled in theInterpretation of Dreams,largely the record of the analysis of hisown dreams.For Freud,dreams eventually came to be regarded as\"the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious\"(I9ooa,V,608);and how they served as both a source of insight and a kind of confir-mation for his theories is considered by James Hopkins.Hopkins'smain concern,however,is how Freud's interpretation of his dreamscan be seen as an extension of commonsense models of explanation(by motive).Additional defense of Freud's approach can be found inDavid Sachs's discussion of Adolf Grünbaum's Foundations of Psy-choanalysis,the most influential recent philosophical critique ofFreud.While Sachs's essay takes the form of a review,it in factconstitutes an independent discussion of questions of evidence inFreud,going into particular detail about The Psychopathology ofEveryday Life.That book,along with the Interpretation of Dreams,is one of Freud's many forays beyond the psychology of neurosis intothe realm of general psychology.But it was with the neuroses thatpsychoanalysis received its start.  \nFreud's earliest psychoanalytic theorizing concerned cases of hys-teria,a disorder involving organic symptoms with no apparent or-ganic cause.Freud rejected the fashionable explanations of his time,which appealed to malingering,heredity,and the peculiarities ofwomen (Freud in fact demonstrated the existence of cases of malehysteria),and came instead to propose a\"seduction theory,\"whichtraced hysterical symptoms to traumatic prepubertal sexual asaults(typically by fathers).While Freud's views developed,he initiallybelieved the assaults were experienced as neutral at the time theyoccurred,and that it was only later,after the intercession of 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