ABSTRACT

Max Weber once noted that any honest modern scholar must admit 'that he could not have accomplished crucial parts of his own work without the contributions [of Marx and Nietzsche] '. He concluded that 'our intellectual universe has been largely formed by Marx and Nietzsche'. 1 From the perspective of another sixty years, we can surely add Weber and Freud to that list. Yet it is not clear what relation all of these men bear to each other, let alone to us. I propose here to suggest some relations between Weber and Freud, leaving aside the broader question.