The sound of Sigmund Freud — Karnacology

This is the only known audio recording of Sigmund Freud, made by the BBC and broadcast in December, 1938. Freud was ill with throat cancer at the time. A transcript of his words is supplied below.

“I started my professional activity as a neurologist trying to bring relief to my neurotic patients. Under the influence of an older friend and by my own efforts, I discovered some important new facts about the unconscious in psychic life, the role of instinctual urges, and so on.

Out of these findings grew a new science, psychoanalysis, a part of psychology, and a new method of treatment of the neuroses. I had to pay heavily for this bit of good luck. People did not believe in my facts and thought my theories unsavory. Resistance was strong and unrelenting.

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In the end I succeeded in acquiring pupils and building up an International Psychoanalytic Association. But the struggle is not yet over.”

— Sigmund Freud

Further reading

• Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia

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