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Following Hinshelwood (1995), the paper points to an overlooked point of cultural access to psychoanalysis in early 20th century England - the enthusiastic reception of Freudianism amongst scientists in Cambridge. The manuscripts of the Marxist X-ray crystallographer, J.D. Bernal, are employed to reveal his quasi-religious enthusiasm during the 1920s for psychoanalysis as the foundation for a revolution in all the sciences; this enthusiasm disappeared with Bernal's growing commitment to the cause of socialist science.