title: [20th century Galileo? The significance of Freud's life and work, seen in terms of the history of science (lecture on May 6th, 2006)].
abstract: This paper gives a sketch of Freud's life and work, discusses the difficulties of reception he met, and, referring to the well-known statement that psychoanalysis represents the third blow to the narcissism of mankind, maintains that, in terms of the history of science, a more meaningful parallel can be drawn between Freud and Galileo than between Freud and Copernicus or Darwin.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, Goethestr. 6, D-72076 Tübingen. albrecht.hirschmueller@uni-tuebingen.de
authors.forename: Albrecht
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hirschmiüller
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D012586:Science / Q000266:history*