Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis Author:Sigmund Freud These lectures were delivered by Freud at Clark University in 1910, only one year after his controversial psychoanalytic movement first received public recognition. — Recorded as they were delivered, in his invariably terse, lucid style, they are an indispensable first step to an understanding of Freud's basic theories of the way the mind wor... more »ks and how mental illness comes about and can be relieved. In his introductory essay Eliseo Vivas, John Evans Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, states that The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis gives us "a good historical account of the genesis and earlier formulation of psychoanalytic theory."« less