Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

  • A Dream of Undying Fame

  • How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis
  • By: Louis Breger
  • Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
  • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
A Dream of Undying Fame cover art

A Dream of Undying Fame

By: Louis Breger
Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

Revealing Psychiatry: From an Insider cover art
On Romantic Love cover art
A Book About Love cover art
Leonardo Da Vinci cover art
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic cover art
A Passion for Ignorance cover art
Psychology cover art
The Illness Narratives cover art
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung cover art
The Anti-Christ cover art
Simply Dirac cover art
Saving Talk Therapy cover art
Classic Case Studies in Psychology cover art
Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought cover art
Triumphs of Experience cover art
Psych 101 cover art

Summary

In 1877, a young Freud met an established physician named Josef Breuer and they began a collaboration that would lead to the publication of the classic work Studies on Hysteria. But by the time it released, Freud was moving to establish himself as a major figure in the treatment of mentally ill patients, and would let no one stand in his way. He consequently minimized Breuer's contributions, betraying his former mentor and benefactor.

In A Dream of Undying Fame, renowned psychologist Louis Breger narrates the story behind the creation of Studies as well as the case of Anna O., which helped contribute to Freud's definition of neurosis. Breger reveals that Freud's own self-mythologizing and history not only affected everything he did in life, but also helped shape his emerging beliefs about psychoanalysis.

Illustrating the importance of personality and social context behind an intellectual breakthrough, Breger provides an in-depth look at a field that reshaped our understanding of what it means to be human.

©2009 Louis Breger (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

What listeners say about A Dream of Undying Fame

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.