Sigmund Freud is known as the founder of modern Psychology and Psychoanalysis. As the father of Psychoanalysis, which dealt greater with subconscious motives to behavior, Sigmund Freud alone sculpted what modern psychology would become. His renowned ideas, which have focused on the Id, Ego, and Super-Ego of the mind are still studied to this very day and are employed in the offices of psychologists in some form or another worldwide.
Die 1955 geborene Schriftstellerin Siri Hustvedt lebt in New York und ist die kaum weniger berühmte Ehefrau des amerikanischen Literaturstars Paul Auster. Hier eine Selbstdiagnose über Zitteranfäle, die sie beim Sprechen über den Tod ihres Vaters erleidet.