ABSTRACT
Compulsive gambling and the accent the author places on the passionate activity of the hands, Sigmund Freud says, are references to displaced onanism. In the case of Arthur Schnitzler, Viennese physician and writer, whose themes such as sexuality, death or internal dialogue were similar to his own subjects of interest, Freud showed a certain reluctance to establish close ties. Freud did not comment on the philosopher's work according to the author of On the Genealogy of Morality, tie the unconscious to guilt, debt and responsibility, including that of the dreamer for his own dream. Freud's relations with the novelists of his time highlight a literary inclination unusual in a man who considered the nature of his work to be primarily scientific. Influenced by a slightly older friend who would become a well-known politician, Heinrich Braun, Freud was tempted to study law and enter the political arena as the candidate of an opposition party.
