“Freud,” wrote Ernest Jones, his most faithful Freudian, “Freud was too mistrustful of the average mind to adopt the democratic attitude customary in scientific societies … he wanted the leader to be in a permanent position, like a monarch…” who would exert “a strong with steadying influence with a balanced judgment, and a sense of responsibility…”

Frederic Morton, Thunder at twilight: Vienna 1913/1914, New York, 1989, p. 115