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The hypothesis of this paper is that Freud's creation of psychoanalysis as a scientific discipline appears related to his decision as a 17 year old to eavesdrop on the secrets of Nature as a 'Natural Scientist'.
We further hypothesize that his relationship to his mother, fraught with ambivalence and early pregenital trauma, provided the motivational source of his wish to pursue the secrets of nature as a sublimated and displaced manner of dealing with her, and with his love and his fear of her.