Autobiografija / Nova predavanja za uvođenje u psihoanalizu
The work in which Freud talks about his life, but following the premise that only his work is important for knowing his person, he only mentions some circumstances of his personal life in passing.
»Two themes creep through this work of mine: my fate and the history of psychoanalysis. Both are closely related, as can be seen from my presentation, because psychoanalysis has become the content of my life and, therefore, no personal experience of mine is worth mentioning if it does not encroach on the area of my scientific interest".
This is how Sigmund Freud briefly describes his Autobiography, a scientist who devoted himself completely to his work, so his Autobiography is more a report on his own progress in learning and developing the psychoanalytic method than a memory of, for example, childhood, friends, family, role models...
Although at some points Freud also writes about personal misfortunes that continuously followed him throughout his life, in his Autobiography you will learn more about the method of treating mental illnesses, the theory of the person, and dream analysis than about his marriage, wife and children. As he himself says, his entire life was spent in getting to the cultural problems that preoccupied him as a young man "by a roundabout way, through the natural sciences, medicine and psychotherapy".
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