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All righty, everybody, welcome to the Ultimate Issues Hour, an hour each week devoted to the great questions of life.

And I think I got a signal from heaven, as it were, to move Peter Kramer over into the Ultimate Issues Hour.

So it's actually worked out better for you you and it worked out better, I think,

for the show. Good. So I thank you for your patience. Peter Kramer is a professor of

psychiatry at Brown University, a well-known psychiatrist. And there is a series of biographies,

short biographies that have been put out. their eminent called eminent lives and he was

given the honor I and it is an honor to write the one on Freud whom as I reminded you folks earlier in

the show I was my nominee either he or Hitler and I'm not comparing them, although it's amazing how people will pervert

what you say. I'm a veteran of having my words perverted. They're in no way related, but those

were my two nominees for Person of the Century. Time eventually picked Albert Einstein,

which was just a safe pick. But the effects of those two individuals,

one for ill and one, perhaps I guess, a mixed bag, I have been, to the great consternation of

many of my listeners, I have been a fan of Freud. I thought the man was the genius of the 20th century for good and for ill,

but I really believe he was a genius in opening up the unconscious and all of the ideas that he had.

Do you agree, first of all, on the effect that he has had on modern man?

Enormous effect.

You know, I think you have to,

and when you write a short biography,

choose one challenge or a couple and say these are the ones I'm going to look at.

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