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Source: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/sigm... In 1915, Freud decided to hold a series of lectures at the University of Vienna, where he was a lecturer; these lectures divided into three parts represent the first occasion ever in which Freud spoke to a mixed and open audience, composed of the curious, ordinary people, students, doctors. With the unmistakable calm and clear style that distinguished him, which today we would call popular in the highest sense, the lectures were later translated into all languages and resumed with successive corrections, up to the second series in 1932. They made Freud and psychoanalysis known throughout the world, and contain all the fundamental concepts. A little anecdote: among the rows of the audience was sitting a young doctor, Max Schur, who was fascinated, and who many years later, in 1928, would become Freud's personal doctor who accompanied him until his death in '39. He writes: “I can still see him entering the psychiatric institute classroom. I remember his voice, not yet altered by the surgical mutilations that followed. I see him before me, in a fur coat and top hat. He spoke without using notes, and yet everything he said was later published word for word.”