Introduction
Wandering Jews
from Galicia to Vienna
Freud's Bildung
Science as vocation
Starting out in Vienna
A theoretical excursus
"Dear magician"
Becoming the first psychoanalyst
Jung and the counter-enlightenment
Exorcising the "odium Jungian"
"What is painful may none the less be real"
loss, mourning, and Ananke
Making sense of the death instinct
Leaving heaven to the angels and the sparrows
Freud's critique of religion
Late Freud and the early mother.