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Acknowledgments. Introduction: "The Development of the Hero." PART ONE: FREUD'S LIFE: THE FIRST THIRTY YEARS. A Traumatic Infancy. Childhood and Adolescence. The Early Adult Years: Searching for an Identity. Opening Up: Martha, Cocaine, Fleischl. Jean-Martin Charcot: "The Napoleon of Neuroses." Martha: "The Loss on an Illusion." PART TWO: THE BIRTH OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. Josef Breuer and the Invention of Psychotherapy. Breuer, Freud, and the Studies on Hysteria: 1886-1895. The Break with Breuer. Self-Analysis and the Invention of the Oedipus Complex. The Interpretation of Dreams and the End of the Fliess Affair. The Great Freud Emerges: 1899-1905. PART THREE: THE PSYCHOANALYTIC MOVEMENT: 1902-1939. The Psychoanalytic Movement: Images of War. Alfred Adler: The First Dissident. The King and His Knights: The Committee. Carl Gustav Jung: The Favorite Son Expelled. The First World War. Trauma Revisited: The Neuroses of War. Freud at Work: The Postwar Years. Freud at Home. Anna Freud: The Perfect Disciple. Otto Rank: "I Was In Deepest of All." "What Does a Woman Want?" Sandor Ferenczi: The Wise Baby. The Final Years. Appendix: Psychoanalysis Interminable: Freud as a Therapist. Background and Sources. Notes. Bibliography. Credits. Index.

LOUIS BREGER is Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology and founding President of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has been a practicing psychotherapist/psychoanalyst for over thirty-five years and has published numerous scholarly articles and books dealing with dreams, personality development, literary interpretation, and psychoanalytic theory.