ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that in the 1930s Freudian psychoanalysis was regarded as deeply subversive. In progressive, advanced circles, K. Marx and Sigmund Freud were regarded as the arch-enemies of capitalist society and middle-class morality, and to announce that one wanted to become an analyst was, indeed, a gesture pour epater les bourgeois. The Second World War began in September 1939. University College left London and so did Ella Sharpe— and the walks in Regent's Park were interrupted for some years. Sylvia Payne was in fact quite different from Sharpe. She was quite prepared to see relatives, to prescribe sedatives, to be helpful about practical problems of being a medical student in wartime— and at the same time she had an intuitive understanding of dreams.
