Before it was a science, psychoanalysis was a scandal. Narrated by Freud himself, this account strips away the marble bust of the "Great Professor" to reveal a man navigating a century in upheaval. As he develops the concepts of the Id and the Ego, Freud grapples with the fallout of his own ambition. Through the lens of his most famous cases and his most painful betrayals, the story follows his path from a young neurologist in Paris to an iconoclast fleeing the Nazis. This is the history of a revolution fought not on battlefields, but in the dreams of the disillusioned and the silences of the Victorian parlor.