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Yes, I spent … two hours chatting with Einstein. … He is cheerful, assured and likeable, and understands as much about psychology as I do about physics, so we got on together very well.
As an Egyptologist, I admit to not really knowing very much about Sigmund Freud or psychoanalysis. This situation is balanced, I believe, because from what I have been able to gather, Freud—through no fault of his own but, rather, owing to his personal interest and to the circumstances of his time—did not know very much about Egyptology. This being so, Freud was nevertheless successful in accumulating a great number of portable antiquities from Egypt, a collection that should best be examined in the context of the Victorian milieu in which it was amassed—a lot of uptight people going about projecting all sorts of mystery and romance onto the veiled lands of the Orient.
Related to this perplexing situation—that Freud appears to have had little scholarly commitment to academic investigations into the history or culture of ancient Egypt and that the same scientific discipline with which he approached his psychoanalytic work was not a factor in his approach