ABSTRACT
The Freud Exhibition organized by the Library of Congress marks the centenary of the birth of psychoanalysis. Its sole parent, Sigmund Freud, has been dead for over sixty years—indeed, he was born before the American Civil War, relatively early in the reign of Queen Victoria—yet his contribution to modern civilization has been so profound that his work has stayed in the center of attention (whether to be praised or denigrated) throughout the twentieth century. The current exhibition therefore provides a suitable opportunity to reappraise Freud's achievements in all their multiplicity.
