ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud was born on 6 May 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia, a town dominated by the towering steeple of the Maria Geburt Church that had the best bell chimes in the province. His own ambivalence about Christianity and Judaism can best be understood in the context of the dialectical nature of psychoanalysis generally. Instead of psychoanalysis, Freud might well have named his system psychosynthesis, because its ultimate goal was synthesis, not analysis. Freud's systematic thinking and ordering of psychic manifestations leads to a synthesis, a processing, an education, a recounting, an interpretation, which brings the psychic 'data' together into the analytic truth of self-recognition and reconciliation". The characterization of psychoanalysis as "pansexualism", often the basis for dismissal of his thought, is accurate if one understands the vastly expanded realm of sexuality as he defined it and appreciates the fact that he saw sexuality as the biological basis for the primordial unifying force of love.
