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The narcissistic temptation to establish a relationship of influence between one's area of scholarly expertise and the contributions of a great and influential figure is quite strong. What must be avoided in such an academic endeavor is a tendency to overidentify with the subject under study and thereby run the risk of impairment of one's objectivity. Many heroic occupants of the pantheon of human genius have been subjected to this kind of study. Sigmund Freud and the field of psychoanalysis, as heroic figure and movement, are no exception. For example, in recent years, Freud's Jewish background and its possible influence have been described (Rice, E., 1990; Yerushalmi, 1991). So has the possible influence on Freud by the 19th-century German philosopher Nietzsche (Lehrer, 1995). These writers are just a few of the many that have laid claim to Freud. Now Russia's turn has come.