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On September 15, 2006 the Austrian Embassy in Washington, D.C. sponsored a celebratory symposium in honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud. This event, titled Freud's Place in Our Minds: A Day of Reflection on Sigmund Freud's Significance in the 21st-Century, was organized by the four major American psychoanalytic organizations: the American Psychoanalytic Association, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, and the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work. This day-long tribute brought together not only psychoanalysts and practitioners but also individuals from the humanities and social sciences all of whom spoke about a man whose contributions continue to influence our understanding of human functioning some seventy years after his death.
Freud at 150: 21st-Century Essays on a Man of Genius is the collection of reprints of the presentations from this historic event. Edited by Joseph Merlino, Marilyn Jacobs, Judy Ann Kaplan, and K. Lynne Moritz, this compact book transports the reader to that special 2006 day. Despite being a compilation of numerous talks, the presenters/authors manage to enthusiastically celebrate the breadth and depth of Freud's influences while still lauding his contributions. This book is a pleasant read and fittingly casual for an event designed to extol one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century. With 28 authors conducting 37 different discussions all covered in less than two hundred pages of text the chapters are very brief (often 2-3 pages) and are structured like a series of celebratory talks, not a dispassionate critical evaluation common to textbooks. As such, Freud at 150 is as easily accessible to non-academics as it is enjoyable to the erudite scholar.
Divided into three sections, each part of Freud at 150 provides a window into different aspects of Freud's personal and professional life. Part I (Sigmun