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2025 130th Anniversary of the Birth of Psychoanalysis (1895)

When, 80 years ago, Sigmund Freud died in London, many mourned the loss of one of the great thinkers of the 20th century. He who had forever changed the way we look at the human mind, personality, and family relationships. But what is left of the ideas of psychoanalysis today? The scientist Frank Cioffi, in a famous BBC broadcast, wondered: was Freud a liar?

To understand what is still relevant – and what is outdated – in Freud’s thought, some of the best-known concepts of psychoanalysis have been chosen, born from the study of patients in the Vienna of the Belle Époque, to see if they could be applied to the people of today from New York, Berlin, Paris, Milan, London.