Over one hundred years have passed since Sigmund Freud first created psychoanalysis. The new profession flourished within the increasing secularization of Western culture, and it is almost impossible to overestimate the influence of its teachings. Despite its traditional aloofness from ethical questions, psychoanalysis attracted to itself an extraordinary degree of sectarian bitterness. Original thinkers have been condemned as dissidents and renegades and the merits of individual cases have been frequently mixed up with questions concerning power and ambition, as well as what was perceived to be the future of the movement. In Freud’s Trauma, Paul Roazen shows how the contentiousness over Freud’s legacy has remained central to human self-awareness.