The Progress of Spirituality

Freud represented the spiritual history of humanity as the search for a rational compromise between the demands of culture and the human desire for limitless expression of their drives. These repressed drives are metaphorically embodied in the works of literature and art, and Freud conducted extensive analytical work exploring the creative fantasies of well-known cultural figures. The collection invites the reader to familiarize themselves with the works of the famous psychiatrist, in which he reflects on various phenomena of culture and considers from a psychoanalytic perspective the works of Leonardo da Vinci, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Hoffman, Ibsen, and Shakespeare.