Can You Find Freud in This Photo?
Preamble: In 1909 Sigmund Freud visited the United States for the first and only time. He did so at the invitation of G. Stanley Hall, the president of Clark University, in connection with the 20th anniversary celebration of the founding of America's original graduate student only research institution. Speaking in German to a who's who of psychologists and other social scientists (many of whom would have been multilingual in those days) Freud delivered a series of now famous lectures on psychoanalysis. One hundred years later, on October 3, 2009, Clark University commemorated one of the most significant events in its history with a series of Freud centennial keynote addresses, answering the general question "Does the Mind Still Matter?" My own lecture has appeared in Psychology Today in three parts - a blog trilogy under the general title "Freud's Friends and Enemies One Hundred Years Later." Part 1 (Did Freud Go Too Far? How Far Would You Go?) was published on February 2, 2010. Part 2 (Freud's Enemies List) was published on February 3, 2010. Part 3 (Freud and the cleansing of souls) appears below.
