ABSTRACT
Freud proved to be an altogether remarkable political leader. Once he had achieved the theory that made up the insights going into his “The interpretation of dreams”, he quickly saw the implications that he put into his The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. Even if Freud had yet to create what he had envisaged as that “whole school of research workers”, presumably by 1901 he already knew something of the power his therapeutic approach would be capable of exerting. In reality it was Jung who had first suggested the idea of mandating training analyses, while Freud was initially on the reluctant side. No matter how Freud might have sought to exclude philosophic speculation from his realm of thought, in hindsight it should be readily apparent that he himself was not only indebted to special sorts of philosophizing, but his work reflected certain unverifiable moral, ethical, and epistemological points of view.
