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Historians look at society from a broad perspective that includes all the activities of people: economic, cultural, political, etc., and so they make significant contributions to our understanding of various societies in all ages. Now, another historian has produced a superb work about Vienna at the turn of the nineteenth century. In a series of seven interrelated essays, Schorske enlarges and enriches our understanding of the society in which Freud was producing his monumental works. Freud was not the only genius in Vienna during the 1890s and early 1900s. There were others.
The contemporaries of Freud included Arnold Schoenberg, the composer, Arthur Schnitzler, the playwright, and Theodor Herzl the founder of Zionism. Others were: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the poet, Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte, architects and city planners, and the artists Gustav Klimt and Oscar Kokoschka. While perhaps not quite of the stature of Freud, these were all gifted people who produced works of enduring value. Through their efforts, and those of others, Vienna became truly one of the cultural