Sigmund Freud: the great explorer
After his mid-day meal Trotsky would “Relax on the sofa for an hour or two, and there… take a nap or… read for relaxation some German or Russian or French literature… novels sent to him by friends in France, some new editions of Sigmund Freud, whom he read very extensively and whom he admired enormously. I noticed that he would mark off and annotate page after page of Freud during this siesta period, and after an hour or two would resume work at his desk…” From the reminiscences of Max Shachtman about Trotsky in Turkey in 1930. The great age of world exploration which opened late in the 15th...