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The theme of “ascent” weaves its way through the lives of Jacob, Sigmund, Martin, and Anton Walter Freud. We begin by examining certain transgenerational aspects of this motif as they evolved over a period of more than a century. An abundance of available data then permits us to reexamine the psychological precursors of Sigmund Freud's thoughts about ascent as a metaphor for ambition.