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Music, its clear cut rhythms marking the passage of time, disposes of our erroneous ideas of the permanence of mental anguish.
Woe to him if life and dream become confused —for then he must answer terribly for the laws of the one world in the other.
It was as if you would dig a single shaft through a mysterious building.
For a fleeting moment in history, science and art were in direct confrontation at Leyden, Holland, on August 26, 1910. On that day Gustav Mahler consulted Freud.
The purpose of this essay is to explore this meeting between one of the most mercurial figures in the musical life of our century and the esteemed founder of the psychoanalytic movement. We wish to emphasize through exploring this colorful example that one can continue to work and create at a high level in spite of significant emotional conflict. The antithesis of this is that art arises predominantly out of conflict and is therefore “neurotic.”