Fall asleep to Sigmund Freud, from a room full of buried gods to a chosen death in exile.
He set out to be the coldest of scientists and ended by telling the strangest story modern people had ever heard about themselves. This is the life and the mind of Sigmund Freud. We begin in his consulting rooms in Vienna, among the ancient statues he could not work without, and follow him from a provincial childhood to the discovery that made his name, the claim that most of the mind is hidden, and hidden on purpose. We move through his masterwork on dreams, his scandalous account of childhood, the drama he found buried in every family, and the movement that made him famous and cost him his dearest friends. We watch his vision darken, after a war, into a theory of the wish for death and the permanent discontent of civilization. And we follow him to the end, through illness, exile, and a death met on his own terms, into the strange afterlife of ideas that science keeps rejecting and no one can quite escape.
Please listen only in safe, restful contexts.
Chapters:
0:00:00 Chapter 1: The Life
0:11:51 Chapter 2: A Cure by Talking
0:20:10 Chapter 3: Not Master in the House
0:26:21 Chapter 4: The Lamp Turned Inward
0:34:05 Chapter 5: The Royal Road
0:46:20 Chapter 6: What the Tongue Betrays
0:51:26 Chapter 7: The Child's Secret Life
0:58:38 Chapter 8: The Drama in the Nursery
1:09:36 Chapter 9: The Difficult Patients
1:15:48 Chapter 10: The Cause and Its Heretics
1:24:25 Chapter 11: The Crime at the Origin
1:30:27 Chapter 12: The Undertow
1:38:57 Chapter 13: The House Divided
1:44:52 Chapter 14: The Consoling Illusion
1:52:30 Chapter 15: The Price of Civilization
2:05:08 Chapter 16: The Fire and the Flight
2:13:33 Chapter 17: A Climate of Opinion
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Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Tracks used: Anguish, Blue Feather, Evening Fall (Harp), Gregorian Chant, Heartbreaking, Lightless Dawn, Lone Harvest, Magic Forest, Mesmerize, Mourning Song, Oppressive Gloom, Promising Relationship, Quinn's Song: A New Man, Relent, Smoother Move, Sunset at Glengorm, Trio for Piano Cello and Clarinet, Wounded
