Sigmund Freud – The Unconscious Speaks

In this episode, we descend into the hidden chambers of the human psyche with Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis — a man who dared to suggest that most of what drives us lies beyond our awareness. In Freud’s Vienna, the language of hysteria, dreams, and desire became the language of science. He believed that beneath every action, slip of the tongue, and dream symbol, the unconscious was speaking.

Freud’s theories of repression, defense, and sexuality scandalized his contemporaries and reshaped how we understand identity and motivation. Yet beneath his controversies was a revolutionary insight: that our minds are divided, layered, and haunted by what we refuse to see.

We follow Freud’s journey from neurologist to psychological pioneer, his clinical sessions in Berggasse 19, and the birth of talk therapy — an audacious idea that words could heal.

This episode explores how Freud’s world — his patients, his dreams, his own doubts — gave rise to a method that changed not just psychology, but modern culture itself. Here, the unconscious finds its voice, and the mind becomes a mystery we can never fully escape.

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