Can Freud Save Us From Gender Madness?

What role does psychoanalysis play in today’s world? This month, Freud’s last living grandchild, Sophie Freud, a professor and psychiatric social worker who fled Vienna as a child to escape the Nazis, died at the age of 97 at her home in Lincoln, Mass. In a 2002 interview with the Boston Globe, Sophie Freud told the newspaper that, despite her interest in psychology, she viewed psychoanalysis as a “narcissistic indulgence.” Many share that opinion, of course; if not relegated to unreadable academic texts, psychoanalysis is for the wealthy and neurotic, the latter likely because of the former.