ABSTRACT
When I was 16, I had our local library order many of Freud’s books and I read them avidly: Psychopathology of everyday life, The interpretation of dreams (of course I kept a notepad next to my bed and tried to write down my dreams when I woke up!), The ego and the id, Totem and taboo, Civilization and its discontents, The future of an illusion (see Wollheim, 1981). Public libraries were great! I was also inspired by Eysenck’s books: Uses and abuses of psychology (Eysenck, 1953) and Sense and nonsense in psychology (Eysenck, 1956). However, Cambridge University focused very much on experimental psychology and the scientific method, and so I was soon taught that these idols had feet of clay!
