It's doubtful that Freud and Twain actually met while Freud was in Vienna, although, as noted previously, and cited in the Dolmetsch book, Freud attended a Twain lecture and, much later, made a reference to Twain in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. At the time the Clemens family lived in Vienna, Freud was still a practicing neurologist, although he had been involved with Josef Breuer in the case of Anna O. and was currently exchanging ideas about the role of the nose in psychopathology with the crackpot Wilhelm Fliess. This was two years prior to the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams, which didn't sell well even in Europe. Freud didn't get much attention in the U.S. until he visited Clark University in Worcester, Mass., at the invitation of G. Stanley Hall (a real scientist) in 1909 and it wasn't until after the First World War that Freud's work attracted significant attention in the U.S. At the time Twain lived in Vienna Freud's ideas were not generally accepted even in the Vienna Medical establishment and his best-known publication was likely an article he wrote concerning the nervous system of a form of planaria (a snail-like creature), a piece of writing which, from a scientific standpoint, still holds up well. Martin Zehr Kansas City, Missouri