Wittels describes the academic tradition in Vienna as characterized by Vienna's great medical teachers. Long before the first World War, however, the Vienna Medical School Showed signs of senescence. The large family of faithful servants of the Catholic House of Hapsburg could not maintain progress. The fighting spirit, the lust to destroy, sublimated into the fight for truth, was lost. Freud was rooted in the tradition of the Vienna General Hospital. He 'really thought that a human being could exist without having an innate